Anthropic brings Cloud Code to Slack

Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude in coding-related messages and topics. The new feature is Launching today in beta As a research introduction.

When Claude is flagged, it will now automatically check the message to see if it’s a crypto task, and if so, it will be routed to Claude Code using context from the relevant Slack thread and code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Cloud that a request is a coding task. For example, you can ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without having to manually copy all the context into Claude Code.

The new feature is part of the existing one Cloud app for Slackwhich previously served as an in-app chatbot. So, there is no need to download anything new if you already have it, but you should have it Web version of Cloud Code Set up with the code repositories you want to use.

This expansion to Claude Slack arrives just a few weeks after Anthropic launched its new app Closing of business 4.5 model. Anthropic claims the latest Claude outperforms Google’s Gemini 3 – which has high standards overall It shook the industry About its release – in programming specifically, but it still faces some safety and security issues. For example, early tests showed that Opus 4.5 rejected only 78 percent of requests to create malware and other malicious code.