Anthropic has launched an always-on AI teammate called Claude Tag on Slack in a research preview, TechCrunch reported on Monday.

Claude Tag is available to Claude Enterprise and Claude Team customers.

Claude Tag lets users tag @Claude in Slack channels to get insights or assign tasks.

Slack already allowed users to send direct messages to @Claude or tag it in channels, but Claude Tag continuously remembers channel conversations and work history so it can pick up earlier threads even after a pause.

Anthropic said "Claude learns more and more about work as it follows a channel" and "with permission, it can also automatically gather information from other channels within an organisation."

Because the whole channel shares a single Claude, anyone can pick up and continue tasks assigned by another team member.

A system administrator specifies the tools, information and channels Claude can access, and it operates only within the channel scope defined by the administrator. For example, a Claude set up for a legal team cannot access the memory of an engineering channel.

When it receives a task, Claude Tag breaks it into multiple steps, processes them in order and posts completed outputs in a Slack thread. Its ambient detection mode is also drawing attention.

Without being prompted, Claude can insert itself into a conversation to update the team on progress, point out missed items and revisit threads or tasks that have gone stale.

Anthropic said Claude Tag "makes it feel like you are working with a real colleague" and "not only can Claude Tag work in the public eye, it also has far richer context and understanding than before."

Context management is becoming increasingly important in enterprise AI deployments. Microsoft is using graphs through Copilot and WorkIQ, and Snowflake and Databricks are seeking to position themselves as backend platforms that hold organisational knowledge agents can use. TechCrunch said Glean is building an intelligence layer between models and enterprise data that understands company context.