Slack launches Slack Code, where teams and AI agents build together

Slack launched a coding product on Thursday. Slack Code adds project-specific channels where teams and AI agents write, review and ship software together. The work happens inside the chat app rather than in a separate browser tab.

The mechanic is simple. Tag a coding agent from any conversation and it spins up a dedicated code channel. Everyone in that channel follows the work through its own tabs. There is one for the conversation, one for the plan, one for the code diffs, and one for a live preview of the output.

Tasks end, and the channel then archives itself. The record survives as an audit log.

Users can “audit code diffs, get live previews of the agent’s output, give feedback, and approve the work before it ships”, Slack said in its announcement. The diff view is the familiar one: old line struck through, new line beside it. The difference...

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