Claude Tag: Anthropic brings Claude into Slack as a context-aware teammate

Anthropic introduced Claude Tag — a beta for Claude Enterprise & Team that brings Claude directly into Slack. Instead of opening a separate chat, you tag @Claude in a channel or thread to delegate work; Claude reads the context, breaks the work into a checklist, and reports back in the thread.

Key points

• Delegate in place: tag @Claude in a channel/thread — no need to leave Slack.
• Admin-approved access: Claude only uses the tools, data and codebases an admin scoped to that channel.
• Break down & report: larger tasks become a checklist, worked step by step with progress in the thread.
• For dev teams: if allowed, Claude can follow a bug thread, read Datadog/Linear/GitHub, then draft a PR or summarize root cause.
• Security: the core is the access model — each channel has its own identity, memory and tool scope, with audit logs.
• Cost: usage-based at org/channel level with spend limits → set limits before rolling out broadly.

Bottom line

Claude Tag turns Claude from a personal chatbot into a shared team agent: channel-scoped memory, admin-controlled access, audit logs and spend limits.

Summarized from Anthropic's announcement. See the original for full details and availability.

Introducing Claude Tag · Docs · Product page