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Claude in Slack is available now to teams with paid Slack plans.
Claude can also now reference users' past Slack conversations.
AI agents are increasingly accessible in work platforms.
In its latest effort to weave its proprietary AI technology into people's daily routines, Anthropic announced Wednesday that Claude can now be accessed directly through Slack.
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The integration is intended to essentially make Claude an AI collaborator within Slack, capable of handling simple and routine tasks like drafting messages and breaking down the key points from a shared document.
Slack users can now start a private conversation with Claude, or add it to a group thread, simply by tagging @Claude, or by clicking a devoted icon at the top-right corner of their screen. Integrating Claude with Slack gives the chatbot permission to access threads in a user's workspace channels, as well as their direct messages and shared files -- but only those that they have direct access to.
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