Anthropic introduced Claude Tag on Tuesday, an AI agent that joins Slack $WORK as a team member, allowing users to assign tasks by typing @Claude and letting the agent monitor channels and take action on its own.
What sets Claude Tag apart from earlier Claude integrations, according to TechCrunch, is a persistent memory layer that accumulates context as conversations unfold in a channel, giving it a continuously deepening understanding of a team's work. Task assignments are handled by routing the work through a series of stages, with the agent drawing on its permitted tools to execute each one before delivering its output directly to the relevant Slack thread. A separate ambient mode allows the agent to act on its own initiative — surfacing relevant updates from elsewhere in the organization, keeping teams informed, and circling back on stalled threads or tasks that have gone unaddressed.
Rather than each user maintaining a separate interaction, an entire channel operates through one shared Claude identity, so the agent's activity is visible to all and any team member can step in and continue from wherever things stand, Anthropic said. Access boundaries are managed by system administrators, who define the tools, data, and channels available to each instance — an arrangement that keeps deployments siloed, so that an instance configured for one department cannot share what it knows with another, such as legal information crossing into an engineering workspace.
Cat Wu, Anthropic's head of product for Claude Code and Cowork, said the form factor distinguishes the product from prior releases. "A lot of the capabilities did exist, but actually the form factor of being able to tag it the same way that you would a coworker is really powerful," Wu told Reuters. At Anthropic itself, Wu said, an internal deployment of Claude Tag has taken on responsibility for reviewing and merging 65% of the code changes coming from the product team.
Claude Tag replaces the existing Claude Slack app and is available in research preview to Claude Enterprise and Team customers, with plans to expand to other platforms in the coming weeks, Anthropic said.
The launch is part of a broader push into the enterprise market. The company carries a current valuation of $965 billion and has been laying the groundwork for a public offering. The company has been expanding its partner network and deepening ties with large enterprise clients; Ramp's May AI Index, which aggregates corporate spending data from upward of 50,000 U.S. businesses, showed Anthropic overtaking OpenAI in enterprise adoption for the first time, according to Fortune.