Anthropic's New Claude Tag Acts as a Virtual Coworker in Slack

Your average Slack bot -- an automated assistant you can tag in a Slack conversation -- works like this: You tag the bot. It responds. That's it. Artificial intelligence company Anthropic, which owns the AI chatbot and assistant Claude, wants to deepen that Slack conversation with a new feature called Claude Tag. The idea is that Claude can now build context by drawing on relevant information from Slack channels in a way it couldn't before.

Anthropic announced in a press release on Tuesday that it will rename the existing Claude app in Slack to Claude Tag on Aug. 3.

When you add Claude Tag to your Slack workspace, it joins as its own user. You can grant it access to selected channels and connect it to whichever tools, data and even codebases you want it to access.

When tagged, Claude will complete a task in stages before posting a...

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