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Claude Tag puts an always-on AI coworker inside Slack.
Each Slack channel can get its own isolated Claude identity.
Claude can watch, remember, follow up, and complete tasks.
Today, Anthropic announced Claude Tag, an always-on instance of Claude that lives inside Slack channels. The idea is that it becomes another participant in a group Slack channel where it can read the channel context, participate in threads, and interact with other channel participants almost as if it were just another employee in the group. Anthropic says 65% of its product team's code is now created by its internal version of Claude Tag.
Anthropic says, "Claude Tag is an always-on Claude that works with your team in Slack the way you'd expect a teammate: reading the room, jumping into the thread, and moving work forward."
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Depending on how it's configured, Claude Tag can be solely reactive, or, if ambient behavior is enabled, it can proactively participate in the Slack channel. When users type @Claude in the channel, they can prompt Claude to take on a task, answer a question, or respond. Every user of the channel can see the responses just as they can see everything else in the channel.
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