Anthropic brings Claude into Slack as a shared AI coworker
Claude Tag can take assignments in Slack channels, work through tasks and return results for teams using Claude Enterprise and Claude Team.
By Daniel Okafor · Business Editor
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Anthropic has launched Claude Tag, a Slack-based version of its Claude assistant that can act on tasks across company teams. The release matters because Anthropic is trying to make AI agents more useful inside workplaces where employees already coordinate work.
The company says Claude Tag can receive an assignment from an employee, divide the work into steps and carry it out before posting the result back in Slack. Anthropic is initially offering the product as a research preview for Claude Enterprise and Claude Team customers on Slack, with plans to widen availability later.
Cat Wu, Anthropic’s head of product for Claude Code and Cowork, told Fortune that Claude Tag builds on the company’s earlier agent products, including Claude Code and Cowork. Wu said those products are more individual tools, while Claude Tag is meant for group use because colleagues can watch its work in a Slack channel and redirect it if needed.
Anthropic says the tool gives companies a shared Claude identity rather than separate bots for each employee. That setup is meant to let workers collaborate with the same assistant and pass unfinished work between colleagues without restarting the process.
The company also says Claude Tag can learn relevant company context from the Slack spaces where it is allowed to operate. Anthropic says that should reduce the need for each employee to explain background information before asking for help.
Within Anthropic, Wu told Fortune, Claude Tag is already approving and merging 65% of code changes submitted by the product team. The company presented that figure as an example of how the product is being used internally.
Enterprise controls and limits
Anthropic is pitching Claude Tag at businesses that have struggled to spread AI tools through large organizations. Fortune reported that companies have cited employee training gaps, scattered internal data and concerns about sensitive information as obstacles to wider adoption.
Anthropic says administrators can narrowly control what Claude Tag can see and use. The company says businesses can set permissions by channel, including access to tools, information and memory, so a Claude working with one team does not draw on data meant for another.
Wu told Fortune that employees dealing with sensitive information, such as personnel data, can also use Claude Tag through direct messages to reduce the risk of exposing information in a channel. Anthropic says administrators can also set token spending caps at the channel level and across the organization.
Claude Tag includes what Anthropic calls ambient behavior, allowing the assistant to send updates across an organization and return to Slack threads or assignments that have gone idle. Anthropic says the feature is intended to help teams keep track of work without requiring a direct prompt each time.
Push into business AI
The launch comes as Anthropic seeks more enterprise customers. Fortune reported that the company is heading toward a likely IPO this year and has been courting business users, whose spending can be steadier than consumer subscriptions.
Ramp’s May AI Index, which is based on corporate spending data from more than 50,000 U.S. companies, found Anthropic ahead of OpenAI in paid business adoption for the first time. Ramp reported that 34.4% of firms in its data were paying for Anthropic services, compared with 32.3% for OpenAI, and said Claude Code helped drive the shift.
Claude Tag also puts Anthropic into a crowded market for AI tools that behave like workplace assistants. Fortune reported that comparable efforts include Salesforce’s AI work in Slack and startups such as Viktor.
This story draws on original reporting from Fortune.