Technology and Science23 June, 20262 min read
Anthropic Launches Claude Tag, An Always-On AI Teammate in Slack for Claude Enterprise
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Claude Tag operates as an always-on AI teammate inside Slack for Enterprise and Team. Persistent channel-level memory; tag @Claude to delegate tasks and learn context.
Claude Tag joins Slack
Anthropic introduced Claude Tag as an “always-on Claude” that lives in Slack and acts as an AI teammate for Slack for Claude Enterprise and Claude Team customers. The feature embeds a persistent Claude agent into Slack channels so it “learns ever more about the work” as it follows along with a channel’s activity.
“Claude can also automatically gather facts from elsewhere in the organization, if it’s granted permission to read other channels.”
Anthropic says Claude Tag can also automatically gather facts from elsewhere in the organization “if it’s granted permission to read other channels,” and it breaks assigned tasks into stages that it completes using the tools it has access to. In Anthropic’s description, tagging @Claude lets teams delegate work while they focus on other priorities, and Claude Tag responds in a Slack thread with what it has created.
Ambient mode and multiplayer
Anthropic frames Claude Tag as multiplayer inside a channel, saying “within a given Slack channel, there’s one Claude that interacts with everyone.” In that multiplayer setup, Anthropic says anyone can see what Claude is working on and “can pick up the conversation from where the last person left off.”
Claude Tag also includes ambient behavior that proactively jumps into conversations to keep teams updated, flag information from across the organization, and follow up on threads or tasks that have been forgotten. Anthropic describes the experience as working with a colleague, saying it feels like “working with a real colleague — one that can produce work in public view, with far greater context and understanding than before.”
Governance, scoping, and controls
Anthropic says Claude Tag is designed so “@Claude’s access to sensitive data and task-specific tools can be very tightly controlled,” with system administrators specifying which tools and information it can access in which channels. In Anthropic’s provisioning model, everything “including its memories, will stay scoped to the channels defined by the administrators,” so a Claude set up for sales work won’t pass memories to one set up for engineering.
“Everything, including Claude's accumulated memories, stays within those boundaries.”
Anthropic also says administrators can set limits for token spend for both the organization and individual channels, and can view a log of everything that @Claude has done along with who requested each task. VentureBeat adds that Claude Tag replaces the existing Claude in Slack app and that administrators can define separate Claude identities scoped to specific channels, with everything including accumulated memories staying within those boundaries.