Anthropic is introducing Claude Tag in research preview, an “always-on Claude” that lives inside Slack and functions as an AI teammate. The feature lets users tag @Claude directly in channels to get insights, ask questions, and assign tasks, and it’s available through Slack for Claude Enterprise and Claude Team customers.
Claude Tag builds on existing Slack integrations that already let users DM @Claude or tag it in channels for on-demand help. What’s new is the persistent context and memory layer. As Anthropic describes it, “As Claude follows along with its channel, it learns ever more about the work.” With permission, Claude can also gather facts from other channels across the organization.
Everyone in a given Slack channel shares a single Claude identity, meaning any team member can pick up where someone else left off. System administrators control which tools, information, and channels Claude can access, keeping data scoped appropriately — a Claude set up for legal work won’t absorb engineering channel conversations.
Claude Tag can break down assigned tasks into stages and work through them using available tools, posting results back into the thread. It also features an ambient mode that proactively jumps into conversations to keep the team updated, flag relevant information from across the organization, and follow up on forgotten threads or tasks.
Anthropic says this makes the experience feel like “working with a real colleague — one that can produce work in public view, with far greater context and understanding than before.” The move comes as competition heats up around enterprise AI context: Microsoft offers Graph through Copilot, while Snowflake, Databricks, and Glean are all building intelligence layers that connect models to organizational data.
Source: TechCrunch
