Overview
- Slack, which launched Slack Code on Thursday, August 20, 2026, made the feature available to every Slack plan at no extra charge.
- Supported partner agents such as Anthropic’s Claude Code, Cognition’s Devin, GitHub Copilot, and Vercel can be tagged to spin up a dedicated code channel that pulls workspace context, shows code diffs, provides live HTML previews, and archives the session as an audit log.
- For now only agents can create those code channels automatically; Slack has built a code‑channel API that is limited to launch partners with plans to open it to more agents later and to add OpenAI/ChatGPT support.
- Slack requires human sign‑off for high‑risk actions like merging code to production and applies existing Slack permissions and admin controls so teams retain oversight of agent work.
- The product positions Slack as a neutral host for third‑party coding agents that can reduce tool switching and surface project context, but its success will hinge on whether teams accept new workflows and on managing security, technical debt, and agent noise.