With the launch of Claude Tag from Anthropic, the ability to collaborate and work within the Slack app with Claude has been taken to the next level. The idea is simple: just put Claude into your Slack channels, link the necessary tools and information to it and then tag @Claude with your tasks that he will take care of.
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It is presented by Anthropic as the future iteration of Claude Code that is more proactive, collaborative and created for teams not for individual developers. What numbers Anthropic is presenting are impressive: today, 65% of the company’s product team code is being written by an internal version of Claude Tag. And now this tool is being used not only in engineering but in any case when the company needs to hunt down product metrics or even debug problems.
Send a @mention to Claude with the task and it decomposes into stages, works them out step-by-step, utilizing all available resources in its disposal, and gives back a response in the Slack thread. The experience will be familiar for anyone who worked with Claude Code or Cowork, but what sets Claude Tag apart from these solutions is three additional features.
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First of all, this is a multiplayer product – one instance of Claude works per channel, so everyone sees what it does and can jump into the middle of the thread. Secondly, it continuously learns over time, gathering context from channels where it exists and from all data sources connected to it, saving user from repeating his context again and again. Thirdly, in case the “ambient” mode is turned on, Claude will bring up relevant information by itself and notify users about the inactive threads without resolution.
For sensitive work, it allows administrators to configure access strictly, different channel settings imply different sets of tools and memory.
Claude Tag is now live in Beta for users of Claude Enterprise and Team. It is being rolled out starting on Slack, because this is where collaboration occurs naturally, but other platforms will be supported as well in future. It is running on Opus 4.8 and organizations eligible for this version receive a launch credit to try Claude Tag company wide.
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