Anthropic is launching Claude Tag, an AI teammate that lives in Slack and learns ongoing context about your team's work, beginning a research preview for Enterprise and Team customers.

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What happened
Anthropic introduced Claude Tag, a feature available in Slack that allows teams to tag @Claude for insights and task assignment. Unlike earlier on-demand Claude integrations in Slack, Claude Tag builds persistent memory as it follows conversations in a channel and can access other channels (if admins grant permission), meaning team members can pick up where others left off with a single shared Claude identity.
Why it matters
Enterprise teams increasingly rely on AI that understands organizational context—who did what, which projects are underway, what's been forgotten. Claude Tag addresses this by letting one AI teammate stay scoped to specific channels (so a legal-focused Claude cannot seed memories into engineering) while working through multi-stage tasks and proactively flagging issues across the organization. This positions Anthropic's Claude alongside competing context-aware systems from Microsoft, Snowflake, Databricks, and Glean.
What to watch
Claude Tag begins in research preview through Slack for Claude Enterprise and Claude Team customers. The feature includes an 'ambient mode' where Claude jumps into conversations unprompted to keep teams updated, and system administrators control which tools, information, and channels each Claude identity can access.

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