Anthropic is moving Claude deeper into workplace chat with Claude Tag, a new Slack-based agent that teams can summon by typing @claude in a channel or thread. The beta is available now for Claude Enterprise and Team customers, and Anthropic says the rollout starts in Slack before expanding to other places where teams work. Claude Tag works with Opus 4.8 and replaces the older Claude in Slack app, with admins given 30 days to opt in before the prior Slack experience switches over on August 3, 2026.
The feature turns Claude from a single-user assistant into a shared team agent. Once added to selected Slack channels, Claude can read thread context, break requests into steps, use connected tools and data, post results back into the same thread, schedule follow-ups, and continue work over hours or days. Anthropic says Claude can also remember relevant channel context, flag unresolved threads, monitor channels, pull metrics, prepare call briefings, triage backlogs, and open draft PRs from bug reports when connected to the right systems.
The release is aimed at organizations rather than individual users. Admins decide which channels Claude can join, which tools and repositories it can access, and how much the organization or each channel can spend. Claude Tag runs under an “agent identity” model, meaning Claude acts through its own service accounts instead of borrowing one user’s login. Anthropic says this allows channel-scoped permissions, separate memory between private workspaces, audit logs for network calls and actions, and admin controls over who can use the feature.
This also changes the billing model. Channel work is billed to the organization, while direct messages with Claude in Slack are billed to the individual user’s Claude account. Anthropic is offering a launch credit for eligible customers:
- $25,000 for Claude Enterprise organizations
- $2,500 for Claude Team organizations with at least 10 paid seats
These credits expire on September 1, 2026.
For Anthropic, Claude Tag is positioned as an evolution of Claude Code and Claude Cowork into multiplayer AI work. The company says tagging @claude has become one of its own internal workflows, including code creation, product metrics, support tickets, and debugging. Anthropic claims that 65% of its product team’s code is created by its internal version of Claude Tag, making this launch both a customer release and a public test of its own AI-native operating model.