Claude Tag: Mention @claude in Slack Like a Teammate
Anthropic announced Claude Tag on June 23. It lets you @-mention Claude in a Slack channel and hand off work the way you would to a teammate. According to Anthropic, it replaces the existing 'Claude in Slack' app.
It's in beta on Team and Enterprise plans right now
Per the official announcement, Claude Tag is first rolling out to Claude Enterprise and Team plan customers as a beta. Eligible organizations also get starter credits to begin with.
Individual Pro and free users aren't in scope yet. If your company is already on a Team-or-higher plan and uses Slack, this is the first thing you can try.
One mention, and it breaks the work into steps on its own
When you tag @Claude in a channel, Anthropic says Claude breaks the task into multiple steps and works through them in order using its own tools. It finishes the work asynchronously, over a span of hours to days.
The announcement also shows Claude surfacing relevant info or following up without being asked. How smoothly that autonomy actually plays out in real work, though, is something you'll have to judge by using it yourself.
One Claude per channel, with memory kept separate
Each channel gets a single Claude instance, and every member of that channel collaborates with the same Claude. Claude builds context from the channel history and connected data sources.
Instead, the 'Claude identity' is split by functional area — so, for example, the Claude in a sales channel and the Claude in an engineering channel don't share memory. It's structured to keep sensitive data from crossing between channels.
Admins can lock down permissions and cost
Admins can narrow the scope by specifying which channels Claude joins and which tools it can use. Token usage caps can also be set separately at both the org-wide and per-channel level.
The model behind it is Opus 4.8. For now it's only on Slack, and the announcement says there are plans to expand to other work collaboration platforms.
Source: Anthropic — Introducing Claude Tag
This post summarizes the official announcement and is not sponsored by Anthropic in any form.
Original with full infographics and visual structure: https://jessinvestment.com/claude-tag-lets-you-mention-claude-in-slack-like-a-teammate/
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