Claude Tag is Anthropic's shared AI teammate for Slack channels, built for product, support and engineering teams that already run their day in Slack. One @Claude lives in a channel instead of one per person, runs on Claude Opus 4.8, and replaced the older Claude in Slack app on 3 August 2026.
Core Features
- Multiplayer by design: everyone in the channel steers the same instance and can pick up where a colleague stopped.
- Channel memory accumulates project context and past decisions, so nobody re-pastes the same background into every request.
- Ambient mode lets it post without being tagged, nudging stalled threads and reporting when a deploy finishes.
- Asynchronous execution over hours or days, so a delegated task keeps running while the team moves on.
- Admin controls scope tools, data and channels per identity, cap token spend, and log every request.
- The 14 August 2026 update reads whole-channel context, making it about 30% better at judging when to stay quiet.
Best For
- Product teams with metric questions nobody has time to chase down.
- Support queues where triage stalls because context lives in three other threads.
- Engineering channels that want Claude Code-style work delegated straight from chat.
- Any team tired of re-explaining a project to a blank chat window.
Pricing
No standalone price. Claude Tag ships with Claude Team and Claude Enterprise plans, billed per seat with token usage metered on top and admin spend caps available. Anthropic gave eligible organizations launch credits to trial it. Slack stays a separate Salesforce subscription.
Our Take
Best for teams whose real work already happens in Slack threads. The trade-off: Slack only for now, and ambient mode needs tuning before it stops being chatty. Anthropic reports roughly 65% of its product team's code now comes from an internal build, a strong signal but a self-report. For the model behind the agent work, see Claude Opus 5 on aifreetool.site.
