Anthropic has launched Claude Tag, an AI agent that lives inside Salesforce's Slack and works alongside employees directly in group chats. According to Reuters reporter Jeffrey Dastin, the company introduced the tool on Tuesday and plans a wider rollout, deepening its push into the enterprise market.
Unlike a chatbot you message one-on-one, Claude Tag is designed to behave more like a teammate. ZDNET reports it can be added per Slack channel, where it reads context, joins threads, remembers what's happening, and offers suggestions to move team tasks forward. VentureBeat describes it as a persistent AI teammate that learns, monitors, and works autonomously, letting teams delegate work and automate shared workflows — and notes it replaces Anthropic's earlier Slack app. Fortune characterizes it as a tool that works "like a virtual employee" within Slack, while Engadget frames the launch simply as "@Claude for Slack."
The rollout is early-stage. Per Techmeme's summary of ZDNET's reporting, Claude Tag is in beta and available to customers on Anthropic's Claude Team and Enterprise tiers; Reuters separately describes it as a research preview for Slack users.
TechCrunch points to the strategic stakes beneath the productivity pitch: by sitting inside everyday conversations, Claude Tag is positioned to capture a company's organizational context, institutional knowledge, and enterprise workflows. Bloomberg sums up the ambition bluntly — Anthropic wants Claude to be your new Slack coworker.
Why it matters: workplace AI is shifting from a tool you summon to an agent that is always present in the rooms where work actually happens — a change that promises convenience while raising fresh questions about how much of a company's internal knowledge flows to an AI vendor.