Anthropic Launches Claude Tag – AI Teammate Now Lives Inside Slack

HomeTech News Anthropic Launches Claude Tag – AI Teammate Now Lives Inside Slack By Guru Baran June 23, 2026 Anthropic has unveiled Claude Tag, a new agentic AI feature that integrates directly into Slack, allowing teams to tag @Claude as a collaborative team member to delegate tasks, automate workflows, and build shared organizational context. The feature is available today in beta for Claude Enterprise and Team customers, marking a significant step in enterprise AI collaboration. Claude Tag enables users to invoke Anthropic’s AI directly within Slack channels by typing @Claude, after which it breaks down assigned tasks into stages, executes them using connected tools, and delivers results in a Slack thread. INTRODUCING CLAUDE TAG, A NEW WAY FOR TEAMS TO WORK WITH CLAUDE. IN SLACK, CLAUDE JOINS AS A TEAM MEMBER WITH ACCESS TO THE CHANNELS AND TOOLS YOU CHOOSE. TAG CLAUDE IN AND DELEGATE TASKS TO IT WHILE YOU FOCUS ON OTHER WORK. PIC.TWITTER.COM/R2C6A5KCYE — Claude (@claudeai) June 23, 2026 It is designed to operate as a persistent, always-on AI teammate rather than a one-off chatbot interaction, making it fundamentally different from conventional AI chat interfaces. Anthropic describes Claude Tag as an evolution of Claude Code, one that is more proactive and built for full team collaboration. Internally, the company reports that 65% of its product team’s code is already generated using their internal version of Claude Tag, with the same pattern extending beyond engineering to product metrics, support tickets, and bug analysis. Claude Tag Capabilities Claude Tag ships with four core behaviors that distinguish it from prior AI tools: Multiplayer access: A single Claude instance lives within each Slack channel, allowing any team member to pick up tasks or conversations where a colleague left off. Contextual memory: Claude builds persistent knowledge of channel history and organizational data over time, eliminating the need for repeated context-setting. Ambient proactivity: When “ambient” mode is enabled, Claude proactively flags relevant updates, follows up on unresolved threads, and surfaces insights without being prompted. Asynchronous execution: Users can assign tasks and step away — Claude can autonomously schedule and pursue projects over hours or even days. Anthropic has engineered Claude Tag with tight administrative controls, a priority for enterprise deployments. System administrators define which tools, data sources, and channels each Claude instance can access, creating separate scoped identities for example, a sales-configured Claude will not share memories or data access with an engineering channel instance. Admins can also set monthly token spend limits at both the organization and channel levels and audit a full log of every task Claude has executed, including who requested it. Claude Tag is currently in research preview beta for Claude Enterprise and Team subscribers, running on the Opus 4.8 model. It replaces the existing Claude in the Slack app, and administrators have a 30-day window to opt in for migration before the legacy app is retired on August 3. Anthropic is also issuing introductory launch credits to eligible organizations. The company has confirmed plans to expand Claude Tag beyond Slack to other collaboration platforms. Follow us on Google News, LinkedIn, and X to Get More Instant Updates. Tags Tech News Copy URL Linkedin Twitter ReddIt Telegram Guru Baranhttps://cybersecuritynews.com Gurubaran KS is a cybersecurity analyst, and Journalist with a strong focus on emerging threats and digital defense strategies. He is the Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Cyber Security News, where he leads editorial coverage on global cybersecurity developments. Trending News HazyBeacon Weaponizes AWS Lambda Function URLs for Stealth Command-and-Control Relays New iPhone BootROM Vulnerability Exposes Apple SoCs to Full Chain-of-Trust Compromise ClickFix Campaign Uses EtherHiding and GULoader to Infect Windows Users via Fake CAPTCHA F5 Patches NGINX Vulnerability That Enables Code Execution and DoS Attacks Google Cloud Vertex AI Allows Attacker to Hijack Victim’s Model and Poison it Latest News Cyber Security Bajaj Auto Confirms Systems Affected by Ransomware Attack Cyber Security News AWS Warns Outbound Traffic Blind Spots Can Enable Cloud Data Exfiltration Cyber Security Claude Down – A Major Outage Affects Most of the Models Cyber Security 8-Year-Old Samsung KNOX Vulnerability Exposes Galaxy Devices to Kernel Attacks Cyber Security News LastPass Customer Data Exposed in Klue Supply Chain Attack