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Claude Tag

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stephenpontes 3mo ago
It's interesting to see Anthropic branching out into different areas now. First artifacts and now taking market share from companies like devin. AI enables quick shipping, but the traditional moat of development no longer applies.
- thewebguyd 3mo ago
  I don't see how this would take market share from something like Devin? Devin is model agnostic, and isn't Slack only.
q3k 3mo ago
> Today, 65% of our product team’s code is created by our internal version of Claude Tag. That explains a lot.
babelfish 3mo ago
Didn't they already have this?
bigyabai 3mo ago
I feel a great disturbance in the SAAS. As if millions of Slack API startups suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced.
aplomb1026 3mo ago
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zeafoamrun 3mo ago
I do this already with the Claude code telegram plugin and telegram groups
dgellow 3mo ago
A bit strange to create a brand name for "I tagged the slack app I want to interact with"
- 5701652400 3mo ago
  Sliced Bread™
- ares623 3mo ago
  They learned from the best. "Retina Display"
phaser 3mo ago
Is someone here using a Claude product that's not code? I'm puzzled about the amount of products they put out. I know a lot of people using Claude but we're all using the terminal-based code. Even for non-engineering stuff it suits great (tax documents, 3D modeling with blender through MCP, academic research, etc.)
- a_c 3mo ago
  I use design. It's nice enough for me.
- dewey 3mo ago
  And it sometimes feels like these teams are not talking to each other. Using Claude Design? The way to hand it over to Claude Code is to download a .zip file with the html mockup and some description, which you then have to copy into Claude Code so it can use it.
  - DaveJorg 3mo ago
    The latest version of Claude code as of yesterday or day before has Claude design Mcp so you don’t need to do this now. edit: note this may not be official release, and may be unavailable for some users. I saw it show up yesterday listed as available Mcp and used it to view projects in Claude design.
    - ahmadyan 3mo ago
      still doesn't feel integrated, like it could have been built by any other company, e.g. Microsoft could have built Microsoft Design and it would look better integrated. For example, it writes the whole front-end twice, once is claude design and then later it has to read it again and re-implement it in code. Also a lot of stuff (e.g. Claude.md, skill files, etc) are not supported, and they have their own set of ui-design and design systems, which claude code doesn't support. I think Claude Design is a wonderful product, i'm just pointing that it is an independent product to Claude Code, heck even today it works better with Codex than Claude Code (that is how i use it with my own browser-use agent, i tell it to browse the design in Claude.ai/design and re-implement the design, works much better than downloading the zip file and asking the model to implement in that way.
SweetSoftPillow 3mo ago
The most important difference from other products: > @Claude is multiplayer. Within a given Slack channel, there’s one Claude that interacts with everyone. This means that anyone can see what it’s working on, and can pick up the conversation from where the last person left off. This makes tagging Claude very different from working within a single chat or for a single task—it’s much more like interacting collaboratively with a teammate.
- ceroxylon 3mo ago
  Hopefully there is some sort of version history implemented or planned like they have in Cowork[0]... this sounds great until a co-worker hijacks your Claude session with a worse idea and derails it from what you were intending. [0] "Editing this message will create a new conversation branch. You can switch between branches using the arrow navigation buttons."
  - mhegazy2 3mo ago
    this is discussed in https://claude.com/blog/agent-identity-access-model https://claude.com/blog/agent-identity-access-model
    - tekacs 3mo ago
      I don't think that that's quite what the parent commenter had in mind. From reading that and materials on it, it seems unclear if – let's say you do what's done in the demos on the site and 'dispatch work' from a thread in a shared channel (e.g. from some discussion) – that if any one of your coworkers replies below you and says, "Actually, could you fold in <blah> as well?" that Claude wouldn't listen to them and thus derail the work.
      - stevenpetryk 3mo ago
        Yeah, there is a level of organizational trust that is required to use this tool (as with any system that allows distributing access via service accounts). We do signal to Claude that there's a difference between a conversation's initiator versus incoming participants and we've found that in situations where people disagree on an approach, Claude patiently waits for a resolution while correcting any misunderstandings. It's also worth mentioning that since Claude has its own identity, a coworker cannot enter a thread and commandeer _your_ identity; you collectively steer how Claude acts with its _own_ identity (it opens PRs as itself, browses Datadog as itself, etc).
MadsRC 3mo ago
I’d be curious how they’ve solved the attribution/provenance/identity problem here. Are instances of Claude Tag, across channels, sharing the same identity? Can I grant one instance access to a range of AWS roles and another instance access to other roles? During an incident, how do I know which Claude Tag called AWS?
- tmhrtly 3mo ago
  This is explicitly answered in this post: > Think of it as creating separate Claude identities for different uses: everything, including its memories, will stay scoped to the channels defined by the administrators. For example, a model set up for sales work won’t pass on memories to one set up for engineering; nor will it give engineers access to any sales data or tools. More information about provisioning access is available here (https://claude.com/blog/agent-identity-access-model https://claude.com/blog/agent-identity-access-model).
  - MadsRC 3mo ago
    Not really, and neither does the doc it links to. It explains the difference between a personal agent (that acts as you) and a multiplayer agent (that has its own identity). But they walk all this back by saying that for PRs in GitHub it uses the upstream Claude for GitHub app - that is one installation of a GH app, which means one identity, one list of repos it can access. In the audit logs it will be impossible to see if it was Claude Tag from Channel Y or Claude Tag from channel X. Arguably that’s a limitation of the abysmal state of machine identities in GH. Agent identity and attribution continues to be important, but current systems makes it oh so difficult.
    - xenophenes 3mo ago
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jere 3mo ago
It feels like they release 1 or 2 "products" a week and then we never hear about them again.
- whalesalad 3mo ago
  we're in the throw shit at the wall and see what sticks phase
  - verdverm 3mo ago
    They are very proud of their approach if you listen to them on Lenny's Podcast. I find their products to be rather sloppy.
- CGamesPlay 3mo ago
  If they find another success half as good as Claude Code it will all be worthwhile. (Monetarily good, not like, quality good)
  - quikoa 3mo ago
    How is CC a success when they still have to force subscribers to use it instead of it being a paid product?
5701652400 3mo ago
for 8,000 USD / month, no thanks.
- arthurcolle 3mo ago
  Wow, that's absurd
  - civitas_ 3mo ago
    absurdly cheap for an enterprise product...
bebeal 3mo ago
claude is too safety pilled to do anything useful these days anyways
- falcor84 3mo ago
  Is there anything specific (and hopefully reasonable) that it refuses to do for you? I'm still using it all the time and getting an immense benefit.
skerit 3mo ago
And here I was thinking we'd be getting Sonnet 5. Or maybe even poor old Fable back. Not this junk.
himata4113 3mo ago
I actually think that "multiplayer" AI usage is very neat I've done a few things where I made a simple telegram wrapper and me alongside a couple of other people were prompting it at the same time to improve a website design / ux. But definitely not whatever the hell this is, how can anthropic make products so much worse when presumeably having access to infinite fable/mythos.
trilogic 3mo ago
>Set a limit on your organization’s monthly spend A tiny detail...
nate 3mo ago
Is this still using Claude Web sessions? Also, has anyone used Claude Web environments to do anything besides stuff with repo access? Like running real environments? SSHing into anything more super powered? Anyone putting real creds into those environments?
- sv123 3mo ago
  That seems to be the biggest limiter, hard to have it do real work on a codebase without it's own environment set up that we can control.
  - nate 3mo ago
    yeah. exactly. they have these "self-hosted sandboxes" which seems to be the unlock we'd need. https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/managed-agents/self-hosted-sandboxes https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/managed-agents/self-host... but those only seem available to their "managed agents" so like "scheduled prompts" i think. one day i assume they'll merge Claude Web sessions with these self-sandboxes maybe
- 8note 3mo ago
  ive given it a discord webhook, if that counts
theplumber 3mo ago
Just got a stupid safety restriction on opus 4.8. Perhaps they should focus fixing that instead delivering this garbage chat integration.
peterspath 3mo ago
Ow. No.
largbae 3mo ago
Hermes can also do this when you connect it to Slack, and having Hermes in slack where multiple teammates can share a context window is indeed nice.
bob1029 3mo ago
Maybe we can start adding these things to the list. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48641261 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48641261
prodigycorp 3mo ago
We ought to rename HN to "The Claude Blog". This is a minor feature update to a slack plugin.
- MaxLeiter 3mo ago
  It's a major rewrite of the slack plugin, with far more functionality and more capabilities. More surfaces will be available in the future
  - prodigycorp 3mo ago
    I suppose. But we don't see the rewrite. That's for you. I think that people see the word "claude" and smash the upvote button. I don't think it's botted. My guess is that people just want another place where they can discuss ai coding workflows.
  - k4rli 3mo ago
    "Major rewrite" from a company that has its products vibe-coded is hardly a worthy measurement.
- maherbeg 3mo ago
  I wouldn't call this minor. The 2 big features seem to be integrated memory + ambient proactiveness. This requires pretty intense tuning to not be annoying.
- nycdatasci 3mo ago
  I spoke with a (potentially biased) member of technical staff @ Anthropic today who claimed that tags w/ multi-player capability is the biggest thing they've shipped since Claude Code.
  - giancarlostoro 3mo ago
    Effort wise probably, but Slack is... not where everyone is... So it seems underwhelming, this is a win for non-devs I supposed, what would have made this more fascinating is if this was a follow up to Claude Design, which in my opinion could have been as big as Claude Code, or even bigger, but it has its own token usage that burned so quickly, not sure how much of general token usage it takes now though.
deanc 3mo ago
Cursor has had this a while, integrated with their web agents. It was a bit buggy to begin with, not working well with non-github repos, but it was improving last time I checked and was pretty decent. The best part for me is seeing non-technical folk spec out something in a thread that they discussed something and letting the agent go ahead and build it ready for the humans to review later.
joozio 3mo ago
Meh. They are still behind current Agents mainstream IMHO
georgewfraser 3mo ago
Slack is such a simple product, and is so strategic as an interface for AI, Anthropic has to be considering building their own Slack. Hopefully this tag approach is an MVP and it proves the potential of workplace messaging as an interface for AI, but also the limitations of relying on the extension points they salesforce chooses to provide, and it turns into a full fledged slack competitor from anthropic soon.
- 4k0hz 3mo ago
  Why? What does Anthropic have that any other software company that's capable of putting MCP integration in a chat app doesn't?
  - thewebguyd 3mo ago
    Nothing, and integration in a chat app would be better served being model agnostic. Anthropic's slack bot here is also at a disadvantage being slack only. 90% of F500 companies are on Teams, not slack. If their only goal is tech companies and startups, fine, but if they intend to grow usage beyond that it needs to be chat app agnostic.
yodon 3mo ago
>Today, 65% of our product team’s code is created by our internal version of Claude Tag. Yeah, that explains a lot.
- rjh29 3mo ago
  They're playing a cat and mouse game hoping LLM intelligence will outpace the growing complexity and unmaintainability of their code base.
  - port11 3mo ago
    Or waiting for enough funding to hire a battalion of developers to undo the damage. Kidding, I like Claude Code.
- munksbeer 3mo ago
  I keep seeing this sentiment. Claude Code cli works very well for me. To lay my cards out, I think the negativity towards it isn't driven by anything objective, but by anti-AI / anti-big-tech sentiment.
  - skywhopper 3mo ago
    I’d say you are wrong about the “anti-AI sentiment”. It’s possible to recognize the tool works well in general and also objectively observe as it adds contradictory features and evolves behavior in ways to encourage token waste. Claude Code CLI is also a very narrow part of their portfolio at the moment.
    - port11 3mo ago
      CC can waste reams of tokens indeed. Pi with hash-based replaces is very token-efficient. That plus cache headers for OpenCode Go and here I am, unable to hit the 5-hour limit unless I use GLM (which doesn’t cache). Anthropic’s incentive to save tokens on subscription users directly clashed with their incentive to waste tokens on Enterprise.
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_pdp_ 3mo ago
Not Claude but we have AI agents operating like that already. We have 10 different ones actually all deployed in Slack and accessible via DM, or in a shared team chat. The difference between this and our agents is that they are context aware - i.e. you can use them privately to access personal information safely. Can provide a link if interested.
- filipproch 3mo ago
  i am interested if you can share the link
- handfuloflight 3mo ago
  https://cbk.ai/ https://cbk.ai/?
debarshri 3mo ago
How would it work when claude goes down, like it did 3h ago.
- theshrike79 3mo ago
  How would your car work when it runs out of gas?
  - debarshri 3mo ago
    I can get a tow truck to tow it and take an Uber to the destination. I don't think the analogy works here.
hmokiguess 3mo ago
Nice, we need more ways to achieve API 529 Overloaded errors thank you Anthropic. Keep driving more growth and usage you can't sustain.
ratherbefuddled 3mo ago
I read this as "Claude integration to Slack is now billed as API usage". Is that wrong?
- lowlevel 3mo ago
  nailed it.
buzzy_hacker 3mo ago
My big-picture takeaway is the AI labs looking to own the customer interface, not just the models. Expect this trend to continue.
saadn92 3mo ago
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buremba 3mo ago
It's interesting to hear that 60% of PRs at Anthropic is created by the Slack bot. While building a Slack bot is easy, making it look like an AI teammate is pretty hard. This is exactly the gap we’re working on with Lobu.ai — disclosure: I’m the founder. The hard problem is giving a shared agent durable organizational memory and a real isolated environment where it can safely access company systems and perform work. The agents need a durable log of what everybody at the company is doing, prevent data leaks with proper access control and isolate the runtime to give everybody both private & shared space. It’s also not tied to Claude or Slack. We see Slack as one interface and the models as part of the harness. It's usually better to combine multiple providers to review the work. https://lobu.ai https://lobu.ai https://github.com/lobu-ai/lobu https://github.com/lobu-ai/lobu
- handfuloflight 3mo ago
  Why did you build on OpenClaw?
  - buremba 3mo ago
    It's not built on OpenClaw, it uses Pi the harness that powers OpenClaw. We were using the GTM for multi-tenant OpenClaw when there was hype but quickly moved away from it as OpenClaw is a nightmare in terms of security.
    - handfuloflight 3mo ago
      Excellent. Now I will take it seriously.
nozzlegear 3mo ago
> Today, 65% of our product team’s code is created by our internal version of Claude Tag. Given the reliability and general product quality of the Anthropic product team's code, this doesn't sound like a selling point.
- pelf 3mo ago
  I was going say the same thing. Today someone must have slacked `@claude can you bring the API down for a couple of hours?`
- ruszki 3mo ago
  And this is their circular reasoning of their valuation. “See, here is our company made to worth X by our product, because it can make a company worth X.” And yet, the product made something really unreliable. And nobody bats an eye on the market. But hey, SpaceX successfully sold that they would generate 30 trillion dollars of revenue.
  - jhrmnn 3mo ago
    Reliability is one property of a product. And it’s quantitative, not qualitative, so it all comes down to trade-offs
- NewsaHackO 3mo ago
  How are Anthropic's production applications poor quality? Other than memory use (which unfortunately is the industry standard nowadays) Claude Code is pretty solid.
  - Insanity 3mo ago
    Literally on the HN homepage today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48645386 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48645386
  - MeetingsBrowser 3mo ago
    Claude code is by far the buggiest piece of software I interact with, If the underlying model weren’t so good, I would never opt to use it. It takes multiple seconds to launch, random lines disappear in the scroll back, it’s internal state gets messed up causing the TUI to show duplicate and/or offset lines, and it frequently causes some kind of GPU buffer corruption causing the entire terminal env to show garbage.
airstrike 3mo ago
They'll do anything but actually build an application.
sudb 3mo ago
This is the "company brain" product spike from Anthropic I think https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs#company-brain https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs#company-brain
- Npovview 3mo ago
  Looks like it. https://x.com/EngramLab/status/2069465879696576844 https://x.com/EngramLab/status/2069465879696576844 https://x.com/karlmehta/status/2069329697843151333 https://x.com/karlmehta/status/2069329697843151333 Satya Nadella reveals why every company may need its own AI model: the model becomes the new company database. "To me, a model is like the database market." "A firm should be able to take the tacit knowledge it has and embed it inside weights in a model that they control." "When somebody asks me how many models should there be, I'll say as many models as firms in the world." The contrarian part: the value may not sit in one universal frontier model. It sits in each company turning its private operating knowledge into a controlled model.
sensanaty 3mo ago
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- tomhow 3mo ago
  Please don't fulminate on HN. The guidelines make it clear we're trying for something better here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
skeedle 3mo ago
Is this not something already commonplace? At $dayjob we have been doing this with multiple agents for 9 months.
tango12 3mo ago
How is this multiplayer? Claude-slackbot needs to inherit my permissions for accessing scoped context and data / tools. Sounds like I need to setup specific credentials for each instance of the agent. More importantly, claude-slackbot automatically remembering sounds like it'll be company wide AI slop? 75% of the stuff on slack should not be remembered for the future. And 90% of the stuff worth having in context is not even on the slack thread.
- movedx01 3mo ago
  From what I've seen trying to play around with Claude Tag, it uses shared credentials. You set it up with Github org access, add it to public channel, and all random people in that channel can now ask it to do stuff with code. It's opposite of what Cursor does - each Slack member needing to connect their own Github account. It's a security nightmare basically.
insane_dreamer 3mo ago
Not on Teams, I see. Likely by design :) Not sure how much we'll use this, but it could be useful for filing tickets from conversations. Though I'd prefer to just point claude to the convo post-hoc rather than have to invite it each time just in case I want to ask claude to do something. The last thing I want is claude chipping into a convo Clippy-style.
- austinxu 3mo ago
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i_have_an_idea 3mo ago
This is like what you can setup with Hermes or OpenClaw within a few minutes with your ChatGPT subscription or an open weights model, except they handle the Slack setup for you and bill you at API rates.
SAK_ATAK 3mo ago
I don't understand how this is gonna fly for enterprise security and compliance. Claude needs to inherit permissions from somewhere, and those permissions will never align with the members of a slack channel. And finding the lowest common denominator of access probably results in a dumbed-down, useless experience. The only way it works is if customers truly start treating agents as humans with the same liability as an employee.
- pants2 3mo ago
  I built something similar at my org. Users simply connect the agent via OAuth and that inherits all of their permissions, so it acts as them. What's cooler is then it can view/add/remove people from channels, so it can conduct access reviews -- overall I consider it a security improvement.
- kylecazar 3mo ago
  An admin scopes permissions on a per-channel basis. It doesn't allow external actions until an owner specifically provisions that tool for that channel. I think. But people can be invited to a channel after @Claude is provisioned. So yeah, I suppose you'll need to be deliberate about channel memberships.
  - deadbabe 3mo ago
    Which is a bad pattern. Around here, you can be granted access to most channels just with vague reasons for why you need to be in there. This is a disaster. Culture will degrade. Suspicions will grow. Security theater.
    - kylecazar 3mo ago
      Yeah, it may indeed require some new Slack processes and discipline. But, the alternative would be account linking (like GH). Your interactions would have responses from Claude that are only visible to you if others didn't have the required permissions. It would use your credentials, etc. That would defeat the stated purpose of collaboration/shared context, it would essentially just be another surface for your private Claude sessions. Just gotta either decide not to use it or use it and not be willy nilly about the Slack channels in which it's provisioned.
krm01 3mo ago
Claude surpassing OpenAI might well be simply because they ship things, faster.
- theshrike79 3mo ago
  Has OpenAI actually shipped anything since GPT5.5?
  - dbbk 3mo ago
    I would say their Codex product is probably better, I just don't use it because I prefer Opus
Topology1 3mo ago
No way they announced a new product before commenting on access to Fable/Mythos.
- mathgeek 3mo ago
  At larger companies like this, there are many parallel product development lines that are mostly independent of each other.
- jeremycarter 3mo ago
  You've never worked at a large company.
- theshrike79 3mo ago
  Mythos was banned because the MAGA admin doesn't like Anthropic. That's it. They can't really comment the truth about it publicly or the rest of the company gets banned too.
cco 3mo ago
RIP to Glean? For enterprises already with an Anthropic MSA, hard to see the argument to purchase a third party, like Glean, over this.
egamirorrim 3mo ago
Arrrgh I bet I can't use it on Vertex
rdli 3mo ago
One thing that wasn't obvious in the post: it's usage (token) based pricing, not including in your existing Claude subscriptions.
ijidak 3mo ago
Just redo Slack already. :-) I know this is much easier said than done. And my comment is partly tongue-in-cheek. But Slack isn't great. It isn't loved. I don't understand why Slack still doesn't have a true single inbox view of all activity. And their LLM integration is poor, for what feels like one of the clearest use cases for a rich LLM chat experience -- to discuss what's happening in a channel, filter cruft, and ask an agent to take actions against MCP productivity tools like add a todo, etc. Slack's current AI integrations are piss poor. Just summaries with zero customization. I mean, isn't it obvious that's not good enough? Eventually a ground-up rethink of Slack in an LLM age is going to displace Slack. They'll likely survive forever as an enterprise provider, like Microsoft Office and related tools, simply because of integrations, etc. But Slack feels ripe for disruption.
Chyzwar 3mo ago
Why Slack? Everything about this product sucks: bad video calls, no meeting recording, limited screen sharing, janky authentication, and predatory pricing. They shoudl just expose SDK/platform for people to build own integration with Discord/Teams/mattermost etc. This would allow for fine grained permisions control and speed up adoption. To large degree this is alternative for OpenClaw ?
- subarctic 3mo ago
  This looks like a great enterprise product. Lots of companies will just enable it and voila they'll have claude in slack. They already have slack and their employees are probably used to Claude. I'm sure this will kill a few existing businesses and bring both companies more revenue
  - Chyzwar 3mo ago
    Enterprise use Teams, mattermost, nextcloud talk, Google meet and many others.
- theshrike79 3mo ago
  Slack has enterprise features and billing. Discord does not. People use Teams only because it's basically free when you get the M365 suite for your company, not because it's good or usable in any way.
  - Chyzwar 3mo ago
    No, Teams is just better product. It handle large video meetings, has build in recording and calendar integration. Authentication is seamless and handling many workspaces is better. Slack is only better in chat interface.
isusmelj 3mo ago
Not sure if it’s just me, but with Anthropic, every new feature has metered usage and “unlimited spending” (aka no limit) enabled by default for our team org. So if I activate something (Claude Code, Claude Tag) and don’t actively go to the usage page to set a spending limit, there is no limit. I’m not surprised Anthropic makes a lot of money. Most people in a typical org probably don’t even know how to check usage. Now, using Claude via Slack will just escalate that even further. And the only models I can use are Opus 4.7 and 4.8 for Claude Tag. If someone knows how to change the defaults, please let me know. With OpenAI, it’s the opposite. Everything is part of the plan, and by default there is no extra spending.
sarracin0 3mo ago
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threecheese 3mo ago
WRT “Claude learns over time” - this is the biggest gap for me in the current system. As I scale my usage of Claude at work, I observe that it’s quite bad at distinguishing what it should “learn” (memorize) from experimental or just wrong data. It builds and builds on a foundation of sand, making sometimes hidden assumptions and turning them into actionable insight thats just not correct. It recently wrote an entire dissertation for an epic, assuming it was related to some other project, where it had earlier made the wrong guess about a vendor capability (from their marketing materials, no less), and it all had to be thrown away. I cleared the memory, but it appears to be still pulling from some corporate data source i cant control or locate.
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- cyanydeez 3mo ago
  I think memory has very little benefit from non-curated sources. its just a source of halucinatd context and bloated. I think focused work on context removal integrated in the tools would be much better. Especially in the thinking models; with opencode qnd local LLM. i've got no choice at times but to review the thought traces and if I could go in and correct a few of them before they go do what stupid shit they're hallucinating, I'd reach much better outcomes then fightint with them.
CRSilkworth 3mo ago
I don't actually understand why this sort of thing isn't everywhere theres a discussion. Engineering wise, it's nothing to add. People use grok all the time on twitter.
lowsong 3mo ago
Yes connect the 3rd party company with a vested interest to capture as much of your data as possible with a direct pipe into all your internal sensitive discussions about your product, business, and market positioning in real time. Has everyone collectively lost their minds? Suggesting anything like this even five years ago would get you laughed out of the room, and actually doing this would be a career ending mistake.
Lightbody 3mo ago
It's interesting to see the market movements from the big players. This announcement is all about Claude extending its reach beyond single-player workflows and into multi-player workflows. On the flip side, Slack just announced MCP support for the Slackbot AI chat capability embedded within Slack. It is, for now, exclusively single-player. Single-player is the "safe place" (relatively speaking). The context, permissions, and standards (MCP/MCP UI apps) all work reasonably well for it, but get super complex or break down entirely when thrown into a multi-player shared context. I suspect Slack is doing what they are doing with an eye towards multi-player, but it's hard to say how that will manifest. For a real life example of this challenge: I work in scheduling (for Reclaim.ai) and you can ask our chat to find time to meet with a coworker and we go find time and help explain why certain times won't work. For example, it might say: "I couldn't do 11am tomorrow because you've got a job interview scheduled on your personal calendar". This is safe and fine to do in a private context. But... imagine if one were to ask our service (or Claude) to find time with someone and it replied to the thread for everyone to see: "The soonest I could find is 12pm tomorrow. Reggie is available at 11am, but Lightbody has a job interview so it won't work". WHOOPS. I think the other comments in this thread have the right idea of it: for this to really work safely, the permissions model needs to be nailed down, and it may mean that you end up with multiple identities of "Claude Tag" (or whatever agent you engage with in a public forum), and the context it gets is only the context that particular identity is entitled to, just like any other employee. But then that gets tedious because now I've got even MORE "people" to keep track of and know who to engage with, which is half the problem getting work done in large enterprises. Will be interesting to see how this evolves. I'll have my popcorn out :)
- on_meds 3mo ago
  If your mixing work with personal calendars that’s a bigger problem. Work should be entirely separate calendars with things from personal added to it in generic blocks the owner can understand but protects from this leakage. Work calendars are owned by companies (generally) and should be treated like the are looked at by coworkers.
  - Lightbody 3mo ago
yalogin 3mo ago
This is quite brilliant. This will seamlessly integrate with every collaboration systems as long as they are able to “enroll” Claude as a user. Claude gains knowledge across systems and makes the ai enhancements for each app/system unnecessary. For example if slack creates something similar it’s less useful because Claude’s model works across any system/app. More so, anthropic can either charge for it separately or not , companies will pay in extra used tokens anyway.
holografix 3mo ago
Wowza this will be a token guzzler. Assuming Claude is parsing every message posted on multiple slack channels, compacting knowledge etc. Looks like Anthropic is progressing further into platform territory and conquering Agentic use cases left right and centre. If you’re building an agent platform for workforce productivity today, your best best is model agnosticism and focus on token cost control.
- brandensilva 3mo ago
  That's exactly what I'm doing. Push for model flexibility, cost control, and reliability. The moat is to be anti lock in. The open source model needs to be amped up on steroids to avoid this permiating every facet of your org you cannot escape.
  - LZ_Khan 3mo ago
    Good luck. Anthropic gets to co-train their harness with their model. Can't see people competing with that unless they own the model.
- mogili 3mo ago
  Token consumption on this is not a huge issue, I built this a few months ago for our company slack using claude agent sdk and most of the conversations/sessions were short lived. You don't generally tend to have long sessions with agents in Slack like you would if using in the terminal. It was very useful to delegate things like create a ticket based on a discussion to Claude.
  - mhitza 3mo ago
    > You don't generally tend to have long sessions with agents in Slack like you would if using in the terminal. You have to check the announcement fineprint. As long as they advertise it as proactive it needs to keep up to date with all the ongoing discussions. And I believe that means all group messages. Wouldn't that make sense? From the announcement > follows along with its channel, it builds more context about the work > And Claude can even automatically learn from other Slack channels and data sources, if it’s granted permission. And the additional "ambient" mode also seems to imply that it will work by itself in background tasks to check (I assume) in some scheduled fashion what stale topics it needs to reengage.
bitlad 3mo ago
What if you could do this: @claude collect all the internal knowledge and context. And fire folks who are not required.
- allan_s 3mo ago
  Fortunately hr system in most companies are from software vendors that are 2 gen behind so a mcp with a "fire $EMPLOYEE " tool will not come up Would also be funny if it fires the one who done the request.
  - bitlad 3mo ago
    You could use coworks for that. Use Tools please.
bitlad 3mo ago
At one point, doing everything has diminishing returns.
adi_pradhan 3mo ago
Will anthropic disintermediate slack at some point? at the limit it seems inevitable that if their cost to build is low they can build their own slack, github, operating system etc.
tango12 3mo ago
TL;DR: one Claude per slack channel.
rishabhpoddar 3mo ago
Does anyone know if it won't leak information across slack channel since it has the memory feature?
snthpy 3mo ago
I think this is the right direction. I'm increasingly viewing AI as coworkers and explaining it as such to higher ups as well. My colleagues also have different strengths and weaknesses and i know what to check and what i can rely on more. Being able to interact with Claude like i do with them will help with that. Unfortunately I'll need it in MS Teams for that. (Pls spare me your rants about Teams. We also use Windows. Deal with it.)
d4rkp4ttern 3mo ago
> It’s available today in beta for Claude Enterprise and Team customers. You’re welcome.
jackboy70 3mo ago
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jessinra98 3mo ago
Tag's memory is Slack specific which makes sense, that's the product. But I spend as much time in Claude Code and Cursor as I do in Slack. Been running an open-source MCP memory server (lorekeeper, https://github.com/jessinra/lorekeeper https://github.com/jessinra/lorekeeper) and the surprise is one install just works across all of them, same memory graph. Makes me think decoupling memory from the agent is the way to go. Anyone else doing cross-tool memory?
- edihasaj 3mo ago
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It's interesting to see Anthropic branching out into different areas now. First artifacts and now taking market share from companies like devin. AI enables quick shipping, but the traditional moat of development no longer applies.

thewebguyd 3mo ago
I don't see how this would take market share from something like Devin? Devin is model agnostic, and isn't Slack only.

q3k 3mo ago

> Today, 65% of our product team’s code is created by our internal version of Claude Tag. That explains a lot.

babelfish 3mo ago

Didn't they already have this?

bigyabai 3mo ago

I feel a great disturbance in the SAAS. As if millions of Slack API startups suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced.

aplomb1026 3mo ago

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zeafoamrun 3mo ago

I do this already with the Claude code telegram plugin and telegram groups

dgellow 3mo ago

A bit strange to create a brand name for "I tagged the slack app I want to interact with"

5701652400 3mo ago
Sliced Bread™
ares623 3mo ago
They learned from the best. "Retina Display"

phaser 3mo ago

Is someone here using a Claude product that's not code? I'm puzzled about the amount of products they put out. I know a lot of people using Claude but we're all using the terminal-based code. Even for non-engineering stuff it suits great (tax documents, 3D modeling with blender through MCP, academic research, etc.)

a_c 3mo ago
I use design. It's nice enough for me.
dewey 3mo ago
And it sometimes feels like these teams are not talking to each other. Using Claude Design? The way to hand it over to Claude Code is to download a .zip file with the html mockup and some description, which you then have to copy into Claude Code so it can use it.
- DaveJorg 3mo ago
  The latest version of Claude code as of yesterday or day before has Claude design Mcp so you don’t need to do this now. edit: note this may not be official release, and may be unavailable for some users. I saw it show up yesterday listed as available Mcp and used it to view projects in Claude design.
  - ahmadyan 3mo ago
    still doesn't feel integrated, like it could have been built by any other company, e.g. Microsoft could have built Microsoft Design and it would look better integrated. For example, it writes the whole front-end twice, once is claude design and then later it has to read it again and re-implement it in code. Also a lot of stuff (e.g. Claude.md, skill files, etc) are not supported, and they have their own set of ui-design and design systems, which claude code doesn't support. I think Claude Design is a wonderful product, i'm just pointing that it is an independent product to Claude Code, heck even today it works better with Codex than Claude Code (that is how i use it with my own browser-use agent, i tell it to browse the design in Claude.ai/design and re-implement the design, works much better than downloading the zip file and asking the model to implement in that way.

SweetSoftPillow 3mo ago

The most important difference from other products: > @Claude is multiplayer. Within a given Slack channel, there’s one Claude that interacts with everyone. This means that anyone can see what it’s working on, and can pick up the conversation from where the last person left off. This makes tagging Claude very different from working within a single chat or for a single task—it’s much more like interacting collaboratively with a teammate.

ceroxylon 3mo ago
Hopefully there is some sort of version history implemented or planned like they have in Cowork[0]... this sounds great until a co-worker hijacks your Claude session with a worse idea and derails it from what you were intending. [0] "Editing this message will create a new conversation branch. You can switch between branches using the arrow navigation buttons."
- mhegazy2 3mo ago
  this is discussed in https://claude.com/blog/agent-identity-access-model https://claude.com/blog/agent-identity-access-model
  - tekacs 3mo ago
    I don't think that that's quite what the parent commenter had in mind. From reading that and materials on it, it seems unclear if – let's say you do what's done in the demos on the site and 'dispatch work' from a thread in a shared channel (e.g. from some discussion) – that if any one of your coworkers replies below you and says, "Actually, could you fold in <blah> as well?" that Claude wouldn't listen to them and thus derail the work.
    - stevenpetryk 3mo ago
      Yeah, there is a level of organizational trust that is required to use this tool (as with any system that allows distributing access via service accounts). We do signal to Claude that there's a difference between a conversation's initiator versus incoming participants and we've found that in situations where people disagree on an approach, Claude patiently waits for a resolution while correcting any misunderstandings. It's also worth mentioning that since Claude has its own identity, a coworker cannot enter a thread and commandeer _your_ identity; you collectively steer how Claude acts with its _own_ identity (it opens PRs as itself, browses Datadog as itself, etc).

MadsRC 3mo ago

I’d be curious how they’ve solved the attribution/provenance/identity problem here. Are instances of Claude Tag, across channels, sharing the same identity? Can I grant one instance access to a range of AWS roles and another instance access to other roles? During an incident, how do I know which Claude Tag called AWS?

tmhrtly 3mo ago
This is explicitly answered in this post: > Think of it as creating separate Claude identities for different uses: everything, including its memories, will stay scoped to the channels defined by the administrators. For example, a model set up for sales work won’t pass on memories to one set up for engineering; nor will it give engineers access to any sales data or tools. More information about provisioning access is available here (https://claude.com/blog/agent-identity-access-model https://claude.com/blog/agent-identity-access-model).
- MadsRC 3mo ago
  Not really, and neither does the doc it links to. It explains the difference between a personal agent (that acts as you) and a multiplayer agent (that has its own identity). But they walk all this back by saying that for PRs in GitHub it uses the upstream Claude for GitHub app - that is one installation of a GH app, which means one identity, one list of repos it can access. In the audit logs it will be impossible to see if it was Claude Tag from Channel Y or Claude Tag from channel X. Arguably that’s a limitation of the abysmal state of machine identities in GH. Agent identity and attribution continues to be important, but current systems makes it oh so difficult.
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jere 3mo ago

It feels like they release 1 or 2 "products" a week and then we never hear about them again.

whalesalad 3mo ago
we're in the throw shit at the wall and see what sticks phase
- verdverm 3mo ago
  They are very proud of their approach if you listen to them on Lenny's Podcast. I find their products to be rather sloppy.
CGamesPlay 3mo ago
If they find another success half as good as Claude Code it will all be worthwhile. (Monetarily good, not like, quality good)
- quikoa 3mo ago
  How is CC a success when they still have to force subscribers to use it instead of it being a paid product?

5701652400 3mo ago

for 8,000 USD / month, no thanks.

arthurcolle 3mo ago
Wow, that's absurd
- civitas_ 3mo ago
  absurdly cheap for an enterprise product...

bebeal 3mo ago

claude is too safety pilled to do anything useful these days anyways

falcor84 3mo ago
Is there anything specific (and hopefully reasonable) that it refuses to do for you? I'm still using it all the time and getting an immense benefit.

skerit 3mo ago

And here I was thinking we'd be getting Sonnet 5. Or maybe even poor old Fable back. Not this junk.

himata4113 3mo ago

I actually think that "multiplayer" AI usage is very neat I've done a few things where I made a simple telegram wrapper and me alongside a couple of other people were prompting it at the same time to improve a website design / ux. But definitely not whatever the hell this is, how can anthropic make products so much worse when presumeably having access to infinite fable/mythos.

trilogic 3mo ago

>Set a limit on your organization’s monthly spend A tiny detail...

nate 3mo ago

Is this still using Claude Web sessions? Also, has anyone used Claude Web environments to do anything besides stuff with repo access? Like running real environments? SSHing into anything more super powered? Anyone putting real creds into those environments?

sv123 3mo ago
That seems to be the biggest limiter, hard to have it do real work on a codebase without it's own environment set up that we can control.
- nate 3mo ago
  yeah. exactly. they have these "self-hosted sandboxes" which seems to be the unlock we'd need. https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/managed-agents/self-hosted-sandboxes https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/managed-agents/self-host... but those only seem available to their "managed agents" so like "scheduled prompts" i think. one day i assume they'll merge Claude Web sessions with these self-sandboxes maybe
8note 3mo ago
ive given it a discord webhook, if that counts

theplumber 3mo ago

Just got a stupid safety restriction on opus 4.8. Perhaps they should focus fixing that instead delivering this garbage chat integration.

peterspath 3mo ago

Ow. No.

largbae 3mo ago

Hermes can also do this when you connect it to Slack, and having Hermes in slack where multiple teammates can share a context window is indeed nice.

bob1029 3mo ago

Maybe we can start adding these things to the list. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48641261 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48641261

prodigycorp 3mo ago

We ought to rename HN to "The Claude Blog". This is a minor feature update to a slack plugin.

MaxLeiter 3mo ago
It's a major rewrite of the slack plugin, with far more functionality and more capabilities. More surfaces will be available in the future
- prodigycorp 3mo ago
  I suppose. But we don't see the rewrite. That's for you. I think that people see the word "claude" and smash the upvote button. I don't think it's botted. My guess is that people just want another place where they can discuss ai coding workflows.
- k4rli 3mo ago
  "Major rewrite" from a company that has its products vibe-coded is hardly a worthy measurement.
maherbeg 3mo ago
I wouldn't call this minor. The 2 big features seem to be integrated memory + ambient proactiveness. This requires pretty intense tuning to not be annoying.
nycdatasci 3mo ago
I spoke with a (potentially biased) member of technical staff @ Anthropic today who claimed that tags w/ multi-player capability is the biggest thing they've shipped since Claude Code.
- giancarlostoro 3mo ago
  Effort wise probably, but Slack is... not where everyone is... So it seems underwhelming, this is a win for non-devs I supposed, what would have made this more fascinating is if this was a follow up to Claude Design, which in my opinion could have been as big as Claude Code, or even bigger, but it has its own token usage that burned so quickly, not sure how much of general token usage it takes now though.

deanc 3mo ago

Cursor has had this a while, integrated with their web agents. It was a bit buggy to begin with, not working well with non-github repos, but it was improving last time I checked and was pretty decent. The best part for me is seeing non-technical folk spec out something in a thread that they discussed something and letting the agent go ahead and build it ready for the humans to review later.

joozio 3mo ago

Meh. They are still behind current Agents mainstream IMHO

georgewfraser 3mo ago

Slack is such a simple product, and is so strategic as an interface for AI, Anthropic has to be considering building their own Slack. Hopefully this tag approach is an MVP and it proves the potential of workplace messaging as an interface for AI, but also the limitations of relying on the extension points they salesforce chooses to provide, and it turns into a full fledged slack competitor from anthropic soon.

4k0hz 3mo ago
Why? What does Anthropic have that any other software company that's capable of putting MCP integration in a chat app doesn't?
- thewebguyd 3mo ago
  Nothing, and integration in a chat app would be better served being model agnostic. Anthropic's slack bot here is also at a disadvantage being slack only. 90% of F500 companies are on Teams, not slack. If their only goal is tech companies and startups, fine, but if they intend to grow usage beyond that it needs to be chat app agnostic.

yodon 3mo ago

>Today, 65% of our product team’s code is created by our internal version of Claude Tag. Yeah, that explains a lot.

rjh29 3mo ago
They're playing a cat and mouse game hoping LLM intelligence will outpace the growing complexity and unmaintainability of their code base.
- port11 3mo ago
  Or waiting for enough funding to hire a battalion of developers to undo the damage. Kidding, I like Claude Code.
munksbeer 3mo ago
I keep seeing this sentiment. Claude Code cli works very well for me. To lay my cards out, I think the negativity towards it isn't driven by anything objective, but by anti-AI / anti-big-tech sentiment.
- skywhopper 3mo ago
  I’d say you are wrong about the “anti-AI sentiment”. It’s possible to recognize the tool works well in general and also objectively observe as it adds contradictory features and evolves behavior in ways to encourage token waste. Claude Code CLI is also a very narrow part of their portfolio at the moment.
  - port11 3mo ago
    CC can waste reams of tokens indeed. Pi with hash-based replaces is very token-efficient. That plus cache headers for OpenCode Go and here I am, unable to hit the 5-hour limit unless I use GLM (which doesn’t cache). Anthropic’s incentive to save tokens on subscription users directly clashed with their incentive to waste tokens on Enterprise.
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_pdp_ 3mo ago

Not Claude but we have AI agents operating like that already. We have 10 different ones actually all deployed in Slack and accessible via DM, or in a shared team chat. The difference between this and our agents is that they are context aware - i.e. you can use them privately to access personal information safely. Can provide a link if interested.

filipproch 3mo ago
i am interested if you can share the link
handfuloflight 3mo ago
https://cbk.ai/ https://cbk.ai/?

debarshri 3mo ago

How would it work when claude goes down, like it did 3h ago.

theshrike79 3mo ago
How would your car work when it runs out of gas?
- debarshri 3mo ago
  I can get a tow truck to tow it and take an Uber to the destination. I don't think the analogy works here.

hmokiguess 3mo ago

Nice, we need more ways to achieve API 529 Overloaded errors thank you Anthropic. Keep driving more growth and usage you can't sustain.

ratherbefuddled 3mo ago

I read this as "Claude integration to Slack is now billed as API usage". Is that wrong?

lowlevel 3mo ago
nailed it.

buzzy_hacker 3mo ago

My big-picture takeaway is the AI labs looking to own the customer interface, not just the models. Expect this trend to continue.

saadn92 3mo ago

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buremba 3mo ago

It's interesting to hear that 60% of PRs at Anthropic is created by the Slack bot. While building a Slack bot is easy, making it look like an AI teammate is pretty hard. This is exactly the gap we’re working on with Lobu.ai — disclosure: I’m the founder. The hard problem is giving a shared agent durable organizational memory and a real isolated environment where it can safely access company systems and perform work. The agents need a durable log of what everybody at the company is doing, prevent data leaks with proper access control and isolate the runtime to give everybody both private & shared space. It’s also not tied to Claude or Slack. We see Slack as one interface and the models as part of the harness. It's usually better to combine multiple providers to review the work. https://lobu.ai https://lobu.ai https://github.com/lobu-ai/lobu https://github.com/lobu-ai/lobu

handfuloflight 3mo ago
Why did you build on OpenClaw?
- buremba 3mo ago
  It's not built on OpenClaw, it uses Pi the harness that powers OpenClaw. We were using the GTM for multi-tenant OpenClaw when there was hype but quickly moved away from it as OpenClaw is a nightmare in terms of security.
  - handfuloflight 3mo ago
    Excellent. Now I will take it seriously.

nozzlegear 3mo ago

> Today, 65% of our product team’s code is created by our internal version of Claude Tag. Given the reliability and general product quality of the Anthropic product team's code, this doesn't sound like a selling point.

pelf 3mo ago
I was going say the same thing. Today someone must have slacked `@claude can you bring the API down for a couple of hours?`
ruszki 3mo ago
And this is their circular reasoning of their valuation. “See, here is our company made to worth X by our product, because it can make a company worth X.” And yet, the product made something really unreliable. And nobody bats an eye on the market. But hey, SpaceX successfully sold that they would generate 30 trillion dollars of revenue.
- jhrmnn 3mo ago
  Reliability is one property of a product. And it’s quantitative, not qualitative, so it all comes down to trade-offs
NewsaHackO 3mo ago
How are Anthropic's production applications poor quality? Other than memory use (which unfortunately is the industry standard nowadays) Claude Code is pretty solid.
- Insanity 3mo ago
  Literally on the HN homepage today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48645386 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48645386
- MeetingsBrowser 3mo ago
  Claude code is by far the buggiest piece of software I interact with, If the underlying model weren’t so good, I would never opt to use it. It takes multiple seconds to launch, random lines disappear in the scroll back, it’s internal state gets messed up causing the TUI to show duplicate and/or offset lines, and it frequently causes some kind of GPU buffer corruption causing the entire terminal env to show garbage.

airstrike 3mo ago

They'll do anything but actually build an application.

sudb 3mo ago

This is the "company brain" product spike from Anthropic I think https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs#company-brain https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs#company-brain

Npovview 3mo ago
Looks like it. https://x.com/EngramLab/status/2069465879696576844 https://x.com/EngramLab/status/2069465879696576844 https://x.com/karlmehta/status/2069329697843151333 https://x.com/karlmehta/status/2069329697843151333 Satya Nadella reveals why every company may need its own AI model: the model becomes the new company database. "To me, a model is like the database market." "A firm should be able to take the tacit knowledge it has and embed it inside weights in a model that they control." "When somebody asks me how many models should there be, I'll say as many models as firms in the world." The contrarian part: the value may not sit in one universal frontier model. It sits in each company turning its private operating knowledge into a controlled model.

sensanaty 3mo ago

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tomhow 3mo ago
Please don't fulminate on HN. The guidelines make it clear we're trying for something better here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

skeedle 3mo ago

Is this not something already commonplace? At $dayjob we have been doing this with multiple agents for 9 months.

tango12 3mo ago

How is this multiplayer? Claude-slackbot needs to inherit my permissions for accessing scoped context and data / tools. Sounds like I need to setup specific credentials for each instance of the agent. More importantly, claude-slackbot automatically remembering sounds like it'll be company wide AI slop? 75% of the stuff on slack should not be remembered for the future. And 90% of the stuff worth having in context is not even on the slack thread.

movedx01 3mo ago
From what I've seen trying to play around with Claude Tag, it uses shared credentials. You set it up with Github org access, add it to public channel, and all random people in that channel can now ask it to do stuff with code. It's opposite of what Cursor does - each Slack member needing to connect their own Github account. It's a security nightmare basically.

insane_dreamer 3mo ago

Not on Teams, I see. Likely by design :) Not sure how much we'll use this, but it could be useful for filing tickets from conversations. Though I'd prefer to just point claude to the convo post-hoc rather than have to invite it each time just in case I want to ask claude to do something. The last thing I want is claude chipping into a convo Clippy-style.

austinxu 3mo ago
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i_have_an_idea 3mo ago

This is like what you can setup with Hermes or OpenClaw within a few minutes with your ChatGPT subscription or an open weights model, except they handle the Slack setup for you and bill you at API rates.

SAK_ATAK 3mo ago

I don't understand how this is gonna fly for enterprise security and compliance. Claude needs to inherit permissions from somewhere, and those permissions will never align with the members of a slack channel. And finding the lowest common denominator of access probably results in a dumbed-down, useless experience. The only way it works is if customers truly start treating agents as humans with the same liability as an employee.

pants2 3mo ago
I built something similar at my org. Users simply connect the agent via OAuth and that inherits all of their permissions, so it acts as them. What's cooler is then it can view/add/remove people from channels, so it can conduct access reviews -- overall I consider it a security improvement.
kylecazar 3mo ago
An admin scopes permissions on a per-channel basis. It doesn't allow external actions until an owner specifically provisions that tool for that channel. I think. But people can be invited to a channel after @Claude is provisioned. So yeah, I suppose you'll need to be deliberate about channel memberships.
- deadbabe 3mo ago
  Which is a bad pattern. Around here, you can be granted access to most channels just with vague reasons for why you need to be in there. This is a disaster. Culture will degrade. Suspicions will grow. Security theater.
  - kylecazar 3mo ago
    Yeah, it may indeed require some new Slack processes and discipline. But, the alternative would be account linking (like GH). Your interactions would have responses from Claude that are only visible to you if others didn't have the required permissions. It would use your credentials, etc. That would defeat the stated purpose of collaboration/shared context, it would essentially just be another surface for your private Claude sessions. Just gotta either decide not to use it or use it and not be willy nilly about the Slack channels in which it's provisioned.

krm01 3mo ago

Claude surpassing OpenAI might well be simply because they ship things, faster.

theshrike79 3mo ago
Has OpenAI actually shipped anything since GPT5.5?
- dbbk 3mo ago
  I would say their Codex product is probably better, I just don't use it because I prefer Opus

Topology1 3mo ago

No way they announced a new product before commenting on access to Fable/Mythos.

mathgeek 3mo ago
At larger companies like this, there are many parallel product development lines that are mostly independent of each other.
jeremycarter 3mo ago
You've never worked at a large company.
theshrike79 3mo ago
Mythos was banned because the MAGA admin doesn't like Anthropic. That's it. They can't really comment the truth about it publicly or the rest of the company gets banned too.

cco 3mo ago

RIP to Glean? For enterprises already with an Anthropic MSA, hard to see the argument to purchase a third party, like Glean, over this.

egamirorrim 3mo ago

Arrrgh I bet I can't use it on Vertex

rdli 3mo ago

One thing that wasn't obvious in the post: it's usage (token) based pricing, not including in your existing Claude subscriptions.

ijidak 3mo ago

Just redo Slack already. :-) I know this is much easier said than done. And my comment is partly tongue-in-cheek. But Slack isn't great. It isn't loved. I don't understand why Slack still doesn't have a true single inbox view of all activity. And their LLM integration is poor, for what feels like one of the clearest use cases for a rich LLM chat experience -- to discuss what's happening in a channel, filter cruft, and ask an agent to take actions against MCP productivity tools like add a todo, etc. Slack's current AI integrations are piss poor. Just summaries with zero customization. I mean, isn't it obvious that's not good enough? Eventually a ground-up rethink of Slack in an LLM age is going to displace Slack. They'll likely survive forever as an enterprise provider, like Microsoft Office and related tools, simply because of integrations, etc. But Slack feels ripe for disruption.

Chyzwar 3mo ago

Why Slack? Everything about this product sucks: bad video calls, no meeting recording, limited screen sharing, janky authentication, and predatory pricing. They shoudl just expose SDK/platform for people to build own integration with Discord/Teams/mattermost etc. This would allow for fine grained permisions control and speed up adoption. To large degree this is alternative for OpenClaw ?

subarctic 3mo ago
This looks like a great enterprise product. Lots of companies will just enable it and voila they'll have claude in slack. They already have slack and their employees are probably used to Claude. I'm sure this will kill a few existing businesses and bring both companies more revenue
- Chyzwar 3mo ago
  Enterprise use Teams, mattermost, nextcloud talk, Google meet and many others.
theshrike79 3mo ago
Slack has enterprise features and billing. Discord does not. People use Teams only because it's basically free when you get the M365 suite for your company, not because it's good or usable in any way.
- Chyzwar 3mo ago
  No, Teams is just better product. It handle large video meetings, has build in recording and calendar integration. Authentication is seamless and handling many workspaces is better. Slack is only better in chat interface.

isusmelj 3mo ago

Not sure if it’s just me, but with Anthropic, every new feature has metered usage and “unlimited spending” (aka no limit) enabled by default for our team org. So if I activate something (Claude Code, Claude Tag) and don’t actively go to the usage page to set a spending limit, there is no limit. I’m not surprised Anthropic makes a lot of money. Most people in a typical org probably don’t even know how to check usage. Now, using Claude via Slack will just escalate that even further. And the only models I can use are Opus 4.7 and 4.8 for Claude Tag. If someone knows how to change the defaults, please let me know. With OpenAI, it’s the opposite. Everything is part of the plan, and by default there is no extra spending.

sarracin0 3mo ago

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threecheese 3mo ago

WRT “Claude learns over time” - this is the biggest gap for me in the current system. As I scale my usage of Claude at work, I observe that it’s quite bad at distinguishing what it should “learn” (memorize) from experimental or just wrong data. It builds and builds on a foundation of sand, making sometimes hidden assumptions and turning them into actionable insight thats just not correct. It recently wrote an entire dissertation for an epic, assuming it was related to some other project, where it had earlier made the wrong guess about a vendor capability (from their marketing materials, no less), and it all had to be thrown away. I cleared the memory, but it appears to be still pulling from some corporate data source i cant control or locate.

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cyanydeez 3mo ago
I think memory has very little benefit from non-curated sources. its just a source of halucinatd context and bloated. I think focused work on context removal integrated in the tools would be much better. Especially in the thinking models; with opencode qnd local LLM. i've got no choice at times but to review the thought traces and if I could go in and correct a few of them before they go do what stupid shit they're hallucinating, I'd reach much better outcomes then fightint with them.

CRSilkworth 3mo ago

I don't actually understand why this sort of thing isn't everywhere theres a discussion. Engineering wise, it's nothing to add. People use grok all the time on twitter.

lowsong 3mo ago

Yes connect the 3rd party company with a vested interest to capture as much of your data as possible with a direct pipe into all your internal sensitive discussions about your product, business, and market positioning in real time. Has everyone collectively lost their minds? Suggesting anything like this even five years ago would get you laughed out of the room, and actually doing this would be a career ending mistake.

Lightbody 3mo ago

It's interesting to see the market movements from the big players. This announcement is all about Claude extending its reach beyond single-player workflows and into multi-player workflows. On the flip side, Slack just announced MCP support for the Slackbot AI chat capability embedded within Slack. It is, for now, exclusively single-player. Single-player is the "safe place" (relatively speaking). The context, permissions, and standards (MCP/MCP UI apps) all work reasonably well for it, but get super complex or break down entirely when thrown into a multi-player shared context. I suspect Slack is doing what they are doing with an eye towards multi-player, but it's hard to say how that will manifest. For a real life example of this challenge: I work in scheduling (for Reclaim.ai) and you can ask our chat to find time to meet with a coworker and we go find time and help explain why certain times won't work. For example, it might say: "I couldn't do 11am tomorrow because you've got a job interview scheduled on your personal calendar". This is safe and fine to do in a private context. But... imagine if one were to ask our service (or Claude) to find time with someone and it replied to the thread for everyone to see: "The soonest I could find is 12pm tomorrow. Reggie is available at 11am, but Lightbody has a job interview so it won't work". WHOOPS. I think the other comments in this thread have the right idea of it: for this to really work safely, the permissions model needs to be nailed down, and it may mean that you end up with multiple identities of "Claude Tag" (or whatever agent you engage with in a public forum), and the context it gets is only the context that particular identity is entitled to, just like any other employee. But then that gets tedious because now I've got even MORE "people" to keep track of and know who to engage with, which is half the problem getting work done in large enterprises. Will be interesting to see how this evolves. I'll have my popcorn out :)

on_meds 3mo ago
If your mixing work with personal calendars that’s a bigger problem. Work should be entirely separate calendars with things from personal added to it in generic blocks the owner can understand but protects from this leakage. Work calendars are owned by companies (generally) and should be treated like the are looked at by coworkers.
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yalogin 3mo ago

This is quite brilliant. This will seamlessly integrate with every collaboration systems as long as they are able to “enroll” Claude as a user. Claude gains knowledge across systems and makes the ai enhancements for each app/system unnecessary. For example if slack creates something similar it’s less useful because Claude’s model works across any system/app. More so, anthropic can either charge for it separately or not , companies will pay in extra used tokens anyway.

holografix 3mo ago

Wowza this will be a token guzzler. Assuming Claude is parsing every message posted on multiple slack channels, compacting knowledge etc. Looks like Anthropic is progressing further into platform territory and conquering Agentic use cases left right and centre. If you’re building an agent platform for workforce productivity today, your best best is model agnosticism and focus on token cost control.

brandensilva 3mo ago
That's exactly what I'm doing. Push for model flexibility, cost control, and reliability. The moat is to be anti lock in. The open source model needs to be amped up on steroids to avoid this permiating every facet of your org you cannot escape.
- LZ_Khan 3mo ago
  Good luck. Anthropic gets to co-train their harness with their model. Can't see people competing with that unless they own the model.
mogili 3mo ago
Token consumption on this is not a huge issue, I built this a few months ago for our company slack using claude agent sdk and most of the conversations/sessions were short lived. You don't generally tend to have long sessions with agents in Slack like you would if using in the terminal. It was very useful to delegate things like create a ticket based on a discussion to Claude.
- mhitza 3mo ago
  > You don't generally tend to have long sessions with agents in Slack like you would if using in the terminal. You have to check the announcement fineprint. As long as they advertise it as proactive it needs to keep up to date with all the ongoing discussions. And I believe that means all group messages. Wouldn't that make sense? From the announcement > follows along with its channel, it builds more context about the work > And Claude can even automatically learn from other Slack channels and data sources, if it’s granted permission. And the additional "ambient" mode also seems to imply that it will work by itself in background tasks to check (I assume) in some scheduled fashion what stale topics it needs to reengage.

bitlad 3mo ago

What if you could do this: @claude collect all the internal knowledge and context. And fire folks who are not required.

allan_s 3mo ago
Fortunately hr system in most companies are from software vendors that are 2 gen behind so a mcp with a "fire $EMPLOYEE " tool will not come up Would also be funny if it fires the one who done the request.
- bitlad 3mo ago
  You could use coworks for that. Use Tools please.

bitlad 3mo ago

At one point, doing everything has diminishing returns.

adi_pradhan 3mo ago

Will anthropic disintermediate slack at some point? at the limit it seems inevitable that if their cost to build is low they can build their own slack, github, operating system etc.

tango12 3mo ago

TL;DR: one Claude per slack channel.

rishabhpoddar 3mo ago

Does anyone know if it won't leak information across slack channel since it has the memory feature?

snthpy 3mo ago

I think this is the right direction. I'm increasingly viewing AI as coworkers and explaining it as such to higher ups as well. My colleagues also have different strengths and weaknesses and i know what to check and what i can rely on more. Being able to interact with Claude like i do with them will help with that. Unfortunately I'll need it in MS Teams for that. (Pls spare me your rants about Teams. We also use Windows. Deal with it.)

d4rkp4ttern 3mo ago

> It’s available today in beta for Claude Enterprise and Team customers. You’re welcome.

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jessinra98 3mo ago

Tag's memory is Slack specific which makes sense, that's the product. But I spend as much time in Claude Code and Cursor as I do in Slack. Been running an open-source MCP memory server (lorekeeper, https://github.com/jessinra/lorekeeper https://github.com/jessinra/lorekeeper) and the surprise is one install just works across all of them, same memory graph. Makes me think decoupling memory from the agent is the way to go. Anyone else doing cross-tool memory?

edihasaj 3mo ago
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