Slack customers can now entry Anthropic’s Claude Code straight in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The brand new function is launching at the moment in beta as a analysis preview.
When Claude is tagged, it’s going to now mechanically scan the message to see if it’s a coding activity and, in that case, route it to Claude Code utilizing the context from the associated Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack customers can even straight inform Claude {that a} request is a coding activity. As an example, you can ask Claude to analyze a bug report you’re discussing in Slack with no need to manually copy all of the context into Claude Code.
The brand new function is a part of the prevailing Claude app for Slack, which beforehand acted as an in-app chatbot. So there’s no have to obtain something new if you have already got it, however you’ll have to have the online model of Claude Code arrange with the code repositories you wish to use.
This enlargement of the Claude Slack app arrives just some weeks after Anthropic launched its new Claude Opus 4.5 mannequin. Anthropic claims the most recent model of Claude surpasses Google Gemini 3 — whose general excessive benchmarks rattled the trade round its launch — in coding particularly, but it surely’s nonetheless going through some security and safety points. As an example, early checks confirmed Opus 4.5 solely refused 78 p.c of requests to create malware and different malicious code.
