Claude Tag(anthropic.com) |
Claude Tag(anthropic.com) |
A tiny detail...
That explains a lot.
I'm still using it all the time and getting an immense benefit.
Given the reliability and general product quality of the Anthropic product team's code, this doesn't sound like a selling point.
I think that people see the word "claude" and smash the upvote button. I don't think it's botted. My guess is that people just want another place where they can discuss ai coding workflows.
Yeah, that explains a lot.
> @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.
In private context, I want to have a per-person conversation with durable context for that person's private chats. I also want that person's permissions to extend. Like contractors in our slack should only be able to ask and get back information about clients that they've been attached to, not our entire knowledgeable.
And we've implemented ALL that, but just with a lot of custom code. We've put in interceptors that put in per-user keys into the MCP connection so only certain tools are even exposed, etc.
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Discussing what needs to be done next, and having it automatically sort it into what subtask it is, if it applies or is blocking to multiple other tasks. Recording specifications, measurements, dimensions. Being able to ask other people facts and have them correctly documented into the right task.
Company Brain / Knowledgebase is imho more rear facing, whereas todo is future facing.
The hard problem is giving a shared agent durable organizational memory and a real isolated environment where it can safely access company systems and perform work. The agents need a durable log of what everybody at the company is doing, prevent data leaks with proper access control and isolate the runtime to give everybody both private & shared space.
It’s also not tied to Claude or Slack. We see Slack as one interface and the models as part of the harness. It's usually better to combine multiple providers to review the work.
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.
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.
During an incident, how do I know which Claude Tag called AWS?
> Think of it as creating separate Claude identities for different uses: everything, including its memories, will stay scoped to the channels defined by the administrators. For example, a model set up for sales work won’t pass on memories to one set up for engineering; nor will it give engineers access to any sales data or tools. More information about provisioning access is available here (https://claude.com/blog/agent-identity-access-model).
AI enables quick shipping, but the traditional moat of development no longer applies.
Devin is model agnostic, and isn't Slack only.
edit: note this may not be official release, and may be unavailable for some users. I saw it show up yesterday listed as available Mcp and used it to view projects in Claude design.
The spooks at Langley aren't going to produce such a file for run-of-the-mill encounters that you have with the legal system, but Anthropic will.
I know my users would actually like Claude Tag, but unfortunately we are in Teams, not Slack, as are most other non-tech companies.
Cowork/Claude Desktop itself is also quite a frustrating product. There's no native audit log unless you basically wire up your own with the API & a log aggregator. You can't selectively enable Claude Code access per team member, it's all or nothing. Some of the MCP connections (like QuickBooks Online) don't do RBAC at all, it's all or nothing for every user in the team.
Maybe enterprise isn't their target market, but they do keep making features that make it seem like they want that market. But if they do, they really need to step up work on governance features & RBAC for specific features and settings per member in the team.
If they don't, Microsoft will eat their lunch for enterprise non-programming use.
I expect many of those to be shut down sooner than later, if learning anything from Google.
Although I suppose the problem with doing it for Cowork is this is a slack plugin, and that is not where most non-tech companies are. Teams is, at 320+ million active users vs. ~50 million.
Everyone hates Teams, but like or not that is where enterprise work happens, not slack. Anthropic would do well to make their Microsoft 365/Teams integration story better and go after enterprise before OpenAI does, or before Microsoft catches up (if they ever do) with Copilot.
Who is everyone and where are they then?
Slack is absolutely dominant in Silicon Valley companies and has been for a decade. I have my complaints about it but it's incredibly an useful tool, being little more than a modernized IRC client and server.
Microsoft Teams may have more users none of them choose to use it.
From reading that and materials on it, it seems unclear if – let's say you do what's done in the demos on the site and 'dispatch work' from a thread in a shared channel (e.g. from some discussion) – that if any one of your coworkers replies below you and says, "Actually, could you fold in <blah> as well?" that Claude wouldn't listen to them and thus derail the work.
We do signal to Claude that there's a difference between a conversation's initiator versus incoming participants and we've found that in situations where people disagree on an approach, Claude patiently waits for a resolution while correcting any misunderstandings.
It's also worth mentioning that since Claude has its own identity, a coworker cannot enter a thread and commandeer _your_ identity; you collectively steer how Claude acts with its _own_ identity (it opens PRs as itself, browses Datadog as itself, etc).