Claude Tag

We ought to rename HN to "The Claude Blog". This is a minor feature update to a slack plugin.

I don't understand why this makes HN front page. HN has turned into Reddit.

>Today, 65% of our product team’s code is created by our internal version of Claude Tag.

Yeah, that explains a lot.

The most important difference from other products:

> @Claude is multiplayer. Within a given Slack channel, there’s one Claude that interacts with everyone. This means that anyone can see what it’s working on, and can pick up the conversation from where the last person left off. This makes tagging Claude very different from working within a single chat or for a single task—it’s much more like interacting collaboratively with a teammate.

My big-picture takeaway is the AI labs looking to own the customer interface, not just the models. Expect this trend to continue.

Is someone here using a Claude product that's not code? I'm puzzled about the amount of products they put out. I know a lot of people using Claude but we're all using the terminal-based code. Even for non-engineering stuff it suits great (tax documents, 3D modeling with blender through MCP, academic research, etc.)

I read this as "Claude integration to Slack is now billed as API usage". Is that wrong?

Cursor has had this a while, integrated with their web agents. It was a bit buggy to begin with, not working well with non-github repos, but it was improving last time I checked and was pretty decent.

The best part for me is seeing non-technical folk spec out something in a thread that they discussed something and letting the agent go ahead and build it ready for the humans to review later.

Is this still using Claude Web sessions? Also, has anyone used Claude Web environments to do anything besides stuff with repo access? Like running real environments? SSHing into anything more super powered? Anyone putting real creds into those environments?

Slack is such a simple product, and is so strategic as an interface for AI, Anthropic has to be considering building their own Slack. Hopefully this tag approach is an MVP and it proves the potential of workplace messaging as an interface for AI, but also the limitations of relying on the extension points they salesforce chooses to provide, and it turns into a full fledged slack competitor from anthropic soon.

Not Claude but we have AI agents operating like that already. We have 10 different ones actually all deployed in Slack and accessible via DM, or in a shared team chat.

The difference between this and our agents is that they are context aware - i.e. you can use them privately to access personal information safely.

Can provide a link if interested.

Nice, we need more ways to achieve API 529 Overloaded errors thank you Anthropic. Keep driving more growth and usage you can't sustain.

A bit strange to create a brand name for "I tagged the slack app I want to interact with"

How would it work when claude goes down, like it did 3h ago.

I’d be curious how they’ve solved the attribution/provenance/identity problem here. Are instances of Claude Tag, across channels, sharing the same identity? Can I grant one instance access to a range of AWS roles and another instance access to other roles?

During an incident, how do I know which Claude Tag called AWS?

It feels like they release 1 or 2 "products" a week and then we never hear about them again.

It's interesting to see Anthropic branching out into different areas now. First artifacts and now taking market share from companies like devin.

AI enables quick shipping, but the traditional moat of development no longer applies.

I actually think that "multiplayer" AI usage is very neat I've done a few things where I made a simple telegram wrapper and me alongside a couple of other people were prompting it at the same time to improve a website design / ux. But definitely not whatever the hell this is, how can anthropic make products so much worse when presumeably having access to infinite fable/mythos.

Maybe we can start adding these things to the list.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48641261

Hermes can also do this when you connect it to Slack, and having Hermes in slack where multiple teammates can share a context window is indeed nice.

for 8,000 USD / month, no thanks.

Didn't they already have this?

Just got a stupid safety restriction on opus 4.8. Perhaps they should focus fixing that instead delivering this garbage chat integration.

I do this already with the Claude code telegram plugin and telegram groups

>Set a limit on your organization’s monthly spend

A tiny detail...

And here I was thinking we'd be getting Sonnet 5. Or maybe even poor old Fable back. Not this junk.

Meh. They are still behind current Agents mainstream IMHO

I feel a great disturbance in the SAAS. As if millions of Slack API startups suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced.

> Today, 65% of our product team’s code is created by our internal version of Claude Tag.

That explains a lot.

Ow. No.

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claude is too safety pilled to do anything useful these days anyways