Anthropic’s Claude Code is coming to Slack

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Anthropic is rolling out something that feels like the future of lazy yet productive software engineering: Claude Code in Slack. 

Developers can now tell Claude to take a bug report sitting in a Slack thread and, without switching tabs or waking VS Code, turn it into real, functioning code. 

Yes, we have officially entered the “please fix this code while I sip coffee” era. 

Claude has technically been in Slack for a while, offering helpful but basic skills: debugging hints, mini code explanations, and the occasional “here’s a snippet.” 

But now? Tag @Claude, and it will spin up a whole coding workflow. 

It scans recent messages, figures out which repo you’re talking about (hopefully the right one), posts progress like a polite project manager, and eventually drops a shiny pull request link. 

In other words, it doesn’t just suggest code. It joins the dev team. 

This isn’t happening in a vacuum. The AI industry has seen the writing on the Jira ticket: the real battleground isn’t models. It’s workflows. 

Models are everywhere; seamless integration is the differentiator. Cursor already lets you poke AI through Slack threads. GitHub’s Copilot now whips up PRs from chat. 

Even OpenAI’s old Codex can be duct-taped into Slack with custom bots. Everyone wants to be where the developers already are, and that’s Slack, for better or worse. 

Meanwhile, Slack is quietly evolving from a message board with reaction emojis into what it calls an agentic hub, a place where AI doesn’t just answer questions but gets things done. 

Of course, as with all futuristic tools, there are caveats. Security and IP protection are suddenly the dinner-table conversation again. 

And if Slack or Claude goes down mid-feature build? Well, grab your laptop like it’s 2018 and write code manually. 

Anthropic hasn’t shared when Claude Code will move beyond beta, but the timing isn’t a coincidence. 

The market for AI coding tools is heating up, and whoever becomes the default companion in Slack could end up reshaping how software gets built in the first place.