Anthropic partnered with Slack to add Claude as your new teammate

Anthropic has partnered with Slack to release Claude Tag (@Claude), which is currently in research preview. The company describes it as an always-on Claude with a single identity that everyone in a Slack channel can access. Everyone in a channel can summon it by typing @Claude, can see what their shared assistant is working on and can pick up conversations from where someone else had left off. Slack believes that Slackbot and Claude Tag complement one another, with Slackbot being a deeply integrated but more-traditional AI assistant and Claude Tag acting as a delegatable AI teammate.

Like other AI bots, @Claude learns more about the kind of work the people in its channel do over time, so there's less and less need to explain things to it. The @Claude for the channel of a specific division or team can gather information from elsewhere in the organization, provided it has the permission to do so. If the admin enables "ambient" behavior, @Claude can even proactively update users in a channel about information from other parts of the organization that's relevant to them. It will also be able to follow-up on tasks that haven't gotten an update for a while. 

While its capabilities might sound risky, Anthropic says @Claude's access to sensitive data and task-specific information and tools "can be very tightly controlled." A systems admin will have to specify which tools and information @Claude should have access to for each channel.

Claude Tag will initially be available in research preview on Slack for Claude Enterprise and for Claude Team customers, but Anthropic is expected to expand its availability in the future. 

Update, July 25, 2026, 6:30PM ET: This article was edited after publishing to clarify that Anthropic and Slack partnered on Claude Tag's release and the difference between Slackbot and Claude. The headline was also changed.