AI startup Anthropic has launched Claude Tag, a new Slack-native AI experience, replacing its previous chatbot. This "inline" agent seamlessly integrates into team workflows, assisting with diverse tasks by leveraging organizational tools and context. Claude Tag, powered by the Opus 4.8 LLM, operates as a shared teammate within channels, remembering conversations and proactively notifying users upon task completion.

Claude can join as a member of a company’s Slack to write and merge pull requests, locate sales numbers, analyze data, take on tasks delegated to it, and more, the company wrote…

Anthropic has launched Claude Tag, a persistent AI agent for Slack that lets enterprise teams delegate work, automate tasks, and manage shared workflows directly inside channels.