'Bringing Claude Tag into Slack is about making AI multiplayer': You can now tag Claude directly in Slack

Claude Tag: A Shared AI Assistant in Slack

Slack now lets you tag @Claude for help. @Claude is an AI colleague that your colleagues can see. It will answer questions and proactively contribute where it's useful. Teams first, other platforms later, but remember to set spending limits.

In a bid to make its AI assistant even more collaborative, Anthropic has launched Claude Tag into Slack to make it more like interacting with a real colleague. By tagging @Claude in a discussion, the AI reads the discussion's context to respond with relevant information, answer questions, summarize long chats, identify updates, and surface missed information.

The shared assistant allows multiple people to interact with the same Claude instance, rather than everybody having separate chats with AI.

How Claude Tag Works

"We're tagging Claude to chase down product metrics and data, work through support tickets, or even help find the root cause of tricky bugs," Anthropic said about its own internal use of the tool, powered by Opus 4.8.

Anthropic described Claude Tag as a virtual teammate, but the existing Slack connector for Claude gives the chatbot access to the app's context for users who still want to have private discussions with the tool.

Claude Tag can also connect to external tools – for example, a Gmail connection monitors incoming emails and notifies users within Slack in a bid to keep everything in one place.

The built-in chatbot also promises to "take initiative" by surfacing relevant information when a discussion is taking place, or by setting reminders for action items when a chat goes quiet.

Availability and Future Plans

Claude Tag is available for Enterprise and Team customers in research preview. Anthropic is giving away a "launch credit" for users to try it out, but the company recommends setting a spend limit.

Though Slack is the first platform to support Claude Tag, the company promises to be working on integrating it into other workplace tools too.