Anthropic is bringing Claude Code to Slack

Slack users tin now entree Anthropic’s Claude Code straight successful Slack by tagging Claude connected coding-related messages and threads. The caller characteristic is launching coming successful beta arsenic a investigation preview.

When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the connection to spot if it’s a coding task and, if so, way it to Claude Code utilizing the discourse from the related Slack thread and the codification repositories you’ve authenticated successful Claude Code. Slack users tin besides straight show Claude that a petition is simply a coding task. For instance, you could inquire Claude to analyse a bug study you’re discussing successful Slack without needing to manually transcript each the discourse into Claude Code.

The caller characteristic is portion of the existing Claude app for Slack, which antecedently acted arsenic an in-app chatbot. So there’s nary request to download thing caller if you already person it, but you’ll request to person the web type of Claude Code group up pinch the codification repositories you want to use.

This description of the Claude Slack app arrives conscionable a fewer weeks aft Anthropic launched its caller Claude Opus 4.5 model. Anthropic claims the latest type of Claude surpasses Google Gemini 3 — whose wide precocious benchmarks rattled the industry astir its merchandise — successful coding specifically, but it’s still facing immoderate information and information issues. For instance, early tests showed Opus 4.5 only refused 78 percent of requests to create malware and different malicious code.