Slack users now have access to Anthropic’s Claude Code by tagging the AI in messages and threads.
Slack users now have direct access to Claude Code. The feature has
Context from conversations and code
When Claude is tagged in Slack, the assistant automatically analyzes whether it is a programming task. If so, Slack forwards the request to Claude Code, with the full context from the thread and the necessary repositories. Users can also ask Claude to investigate a bug, suggest a patch, or rewrite code based on the discussion in Slack.
Claude 4.5 Opus
The expansion comes a few weeks after the introduction of Claude Opus 4.5, which Anthropic claims performs better than Google Gemini 3 on coding tasks. At the same time, there is still discussion about the safety of the model, writes
Anthropic says it is further refining this security while rolling out features such as the Slack integration more broadly.