Overview
- Developers can tag @Claude in Slack to have coding tasks detected from thread context and routed to Claude Code as a beta research preview.
- Claude analyzes recent messages to select the appropriate repository, posts progress updates in the thread, and shares links to review work or open pull requests.
- The capability lives inside the existing Claude Slack app, though teams must set up Claude Code on the web and authenticate the repositories they want it to access.
- The rollout reflects a broader shift of coding assistants from IDEs into collaboration platforms, with Cursor and GitHub Copilot offering related Slack-style workflows.
- The launch follows Anthropic’s Opus 4.5 model, which the company says excels at coding versus Google’s Gemini 3, while early tests reported only a 78% refusal rate for malicious code requests.