Overview
- Slack rolled out Slack Code on Thursday to create dedicated, project‑specific channels that agents spawn when tagged to handle a coding task.
- At launch the feature integrates partner agents from Anthropic, Cognition, GitHub and Vercel with OpenAI support promised in a later release.
- Each code channel shows the agent’s plan, repository and branch, inline code diffs, user tabs and a live HTML preview, then auto‑archives as a searchable audit log.
- Slack limits who and what can create these channels today by letting only partner agents use the new API and by preventing humans from creating code channels for now.
- Slack says channels inherit workspace permissions and route high‑stakes actions like merges to a human for sign‑off while observers warn increased AI production may raise technical debt, security and governance challenges.