Anthropic is bringing its AI assistant directly into team chat. The company has launched Claude Tag, a feature that lets anyone summon a shared Claude into a Slack channel by typing @Claude. It arrived on June 23 as a research preview for Claude Enterprise and Claude Team customers.
The pitch is a single, always-on assistant that the whole channel can use. Anthropic describes it as “an always-on Claude with a single identity that everyone in a Slack channel can access.” Its own demo shows the basic idea.
How @Claude works in a channel
The mechanic is familiar to anyone who uses Slack. You tag @Claude in a thread, and it reads the conversation and responds in the channel. Because it shares one identity, everyone can see its work and pick up a task someone else started.
What sets it apart is memory. Claude Tag adds a persistent layer that accumulates context as a channel’s conversations unfold. As a result, it gradually learns a team’s workflows and needs fewer repeated explanations over time.
Ambient mode and admin controls
There is also an optional “ambient” mode. When it is on, Claude monitors the channels it is assigned to and chimes in unprompted. It might post a summary, a reminder, or a piece of context pulled from elsewhere in the company.
That reach depends on permissions, however. With admin approval, the assistant can draw on information across an organization’s connected tools. Anthropic says admins keep tight, per-channel control over which tools and data @Claude can touch. Even so, an always-watching assistant will raise familiar questions about workplace monitoring and data access, so those controls matter.
A deeper push into enterprise AI
The move pushes Anthropic further into the enterprise market, which has become a key battleground for AI companies. A shared teammate that lives in Slack is a clear step beyond one-to-one chatbots. Claude has been spreading into more workplaces lately. We saw it when Claude Design began handing designs straight to Claude Code. Rivals are pushing hard too, including Google’s agentic Gemini Spark assistant.
For now, the usual caveats apply. This is a research preview, so the behavior and limits may shift before any wider release. It is also restricted to Anthropic’s paid Enterprise and Team tiers. Still, the direction is clear: Anthropic wants Claude embedded where teams already work, not waiting in a separate tab.
