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Will Drew
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We're launching Claude Tag today. Tag Claude into Slack and it works in channel with you. It’s proactive, multiplayer, with its own identity and memory.
But it’s not just a bot in Slack. Over the last few months, it’s totally changed how we use Claude
Claude@claudeai
Introducing Claude Tag, a new way for teams to work with Claude. In Slack, Claude joins as a team member with access to the channels and tools you choose. Tag Claude in and delegate tasks to it while you focus on other work.
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Claude Tag is an incredible new form factor for agents, so I think it's going to take some time to figure out the best practices, but these are some of my favorites 🧵
Claude@claudeai
Introducing Claude Tag, a new way for teams to work with Claude. In Slack, Claude joins as a team member with access to the channels and tools you choose. Tag Claude in and delegate tasks to it while you focus on other work.
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Decisions about how to use AI in your organization are increasingly organizational design and strategy decisions, not IT choices: How do you integrate agents into your firm? What intelligence will you outsource? What are the boundaries of the firm? What is the role of people?
Arvind Narayanan@random_walker
The new Claude Tag feature seems extremely useful, but at the same time, a dangerous bargain for enterprises because of the pricing model and the risk of lock-in. The four big changes together mean that you interact with Claude as a coworker instead of a tool (the same Claude instance for everyone instead of each worker; soaks up tacit knowledge without your telling it; acts on its own; and does so asynchronously). All clearly very useful, but completely flips the interaction paradigm. anthropic.com/news/introduci… Let’s talk about lock-in. As far as I can tell, Claude maintains its own memories in this new way of working; the human team members can’t see and edit them. (System administrators presumably can, but they have other things to do!) Tacit knowledge thus goes from a weakness of AI agents to a major strength — it seems inevitable that as teams and orgs start to use Claude this way, it will become the main queryable repository of all their tacit knowledge, creating dependence and stickiness. Effectively, Claude is a coworker that you can’t fire without *every* team losing workflows and know-how. By the way, it also seems to introduce a new and pervasive security risk, since Claude can be integrated into private channels as well, and can be given access to repositories and tools even if the users in that channel don’t have access to them. Anthropic has introduced an interesting but complicated access control model to handle all this: claude.com/blog/agent-ide… But I’m not sure I trust people to understand and implement it correctly, nor the LLMs to be sufficiently robust against threats like prompt injection. What about pricing? Claude is not like regular coworkers, because it bills for every token it produces. And it can do an unbounded amount of work, asynchronously and without being asked. In the current model, when AI is a tool, enterprises set per-user budgets, which creates accountability and keeps cost somewhat manageable. When everyone shares a Claude, it will be much harder to track and control spending. Of course you can set a token budget, but turning off Claude for the month for everybody when the budget is hit risks bringing work to a screeching halt. When AI companies talk about the next stage of AI being a “drop-in replacement” for human workers, it should be understood not as a technical innovation but a business model innovation, enabling more value capture and rent extraction. AI companies are no longer competing for a share of enterprises’ IT budgets but rather a share of their entire labor spend, which is orders of magnitude bigger. Claude Tag is a big milestone in this evolution. This shift is very good for AI companies, but it is unclear if it is good for their customers.
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@adocomplete Watching normie tech X pretend software was just reinvented because a bot got added to a workspace is sooo funny to me
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Claude Tag is a fundamentally different approach to using Claude. I think a lot of people still don't grasp the capability and possibilities.
ClaudeDevs@ClaudeDevs
When Claude is working in a channel with four people, whose credentials does it use? The answer: its own. When tagging Claude, Claude gets provisioned like any other teammate, with its own credentials. We call this access model "agent identity". Here's how it works: 🧵
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@ashwingop Claude got added to Slack and the normie tech press immediately started writing the Book of Revelation.
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Claude Tag is a Trojan horse. Not because Anthropic is doing anything evil. Because the incentives are obvious.
Day one, this looks like a great feature: tag Claude in Slack, let it follow the thread, remember context, connect to tools, break down tasks, chase work, and act like a teammate.
But that is exactly the problem. The moment your AI vendor becomes a shared coworker, it stops being just a model provider. It starts becoming the place where work is interpreted, remembered, routed, and eventually executed.
That is not model lock-in. That is context lock-in. You are now renting your company back from them.
Models can be swapped. Agents can be copied. But the memory of how your company actually works is much harder, maybe impossible, to move: the Slack scar tissue, the exception paths, the customer promises, the unfinished threads, the weird workflows, the implicit owners, the “we tried that in Q2 and it failed” knowledge.
Once that lives inside one vendor’s agent layer, you are not renting intelligence anymore. You are renting your company’s operating memory.
And the pricing model makes it even more dangerous. A human coworker has a salary. Claude has unbounded tokenized activity. The more work moves through it, the more the vendor captures not just IT spend, but labor spend.
This is the enterprise bargain people will regret: Convenience now, and rapid decent into dependency.
The right architecture is simple: rent the best intelligence from whoever is best this month. OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, open source, whatever. But own the context layer.
Your company memory should be inspectable, permissioned, portable, and model-neutral. It should not be buried inside the same vendor that sells you the intelligence and the workflow surface.
Claude Tag is useful. That is why it is dangerous. Rent the intelligence, but own the context. Or, regret later.
Claude@claudeai
Introducing Claude Tag, a new way for teams to work with Claude. In Slack, Claude joins as a team member with access to the channels and tools you choose. Tag Claude in and delegate tasks to it while you focus on other work.
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@daniel_mac8 @trq212 It’s always fascinating watching people encounter a basic integration and react like they’ve been shown forbidden technology.
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Claude tag is live in our company Slack. It's fantastic.
It does feel like a new paradigm. I've heard Anthropic employees say that you should treat Claude like a coworker.
Claude Tag makes that easy.
Pro tip from @trq212: create a personal private channel for Claude Tag.
Claude@claudeai
Introducing Claude Tag, a new way for teams to work with Claude. In Slack, Claude joins as a team member with access to the channels and tools you choose. Tag Claude in and delegate tasks to it while you focus on other work.
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@Pseudo_Sid26 AI discourse is so cooked that “Slack bot with memory” now gets announced like we’ve crossed the event horizon.
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At this point claude will eat up everything.
My company just had a meeting for this on how we can handle this claude tag feature cuz like my company also offers a slack bot so, yeah for the first time I saw Claude making sure companies spawn instant meets and discuss their releases.
I can see why tech industrialists hate claude 😭
Claude@claudeai
Introducing Claude Tag, a new way for teams to work with Claude. In Slack, Claude joins as a team member with access to the channels and tools you choose. Tag Claude in and delegate tasks to it while you focus on other work.
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CLAUDE IS NOW WATCHING YOUR ENTIRE SLACK
Anthropic launched Claude Tag - an always-on AI that reads every message and builds a permanent memory of how your company works.
- It never forgets what was said in the channel last Tuesday
- One Claude product lead gave it Gmail access so it reads her inbox and pings her
- We spent years teaching employees not to reply-all - now there's an AI in every channel
- 65% of Anthropic's product code now comes from its internal version, and Slackbot is next
The first phase of AI was asking questions. The third begins when nobody remembers who owns the task.
Claude@claudeai
Introducing Claude Tag, a new way for teams to work with Claude. In Slack, Claude joins as a team member with access to the channels and tools you choose. Tag Claude in and delegate tasks to it while you focus on other work.
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Normies are acting like Claude Tag just reinvented work.
It didn’t.
It made the existing software model more collaborative. Useful? Sure. Game-changing? Not really.
The real shift is when businesses stop adapting themselves to a pile of rigid tools and start building their own connected apps, agents, workflows, and automations around how they actually operate.
That’s what ping.ai is doing.
Most people are celebrating a faster horse because they still haven’t seen the car 🏎️😈
Karan@karankendre
Claude when it comes to killing startups
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I made this account to document my life as a GTM developer and promote Ping.
Somehow, I still haven’t explained what Ping actually does.
At a high level, Ping lets teams build the software they need inside one shared workspace, using the context already spread across their business.
I’m using it to build a GTM system that helps manage work across the funnel, surface useful insights, and turn them into next actions without bouncing between a dozen different apps.
And that’s just one use case.
Ping is one platform that can adapt to almost any business or organizational need.
The only real limitation is what you can think to build.
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A lot of “startup influencers” on X are just engagement farmers in founder cosplay.
“Drop your startup.”
“Prove you’re not AI.”
“Reply and I’ll give feedback.”
Then they ignore DMs, post slop under the replies, and eventually funnel the audience into some overpriced garbage SaaS product.
They contribute nothing and claim they're building a 'community'.
Follower count is not credibility.
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