Quick Facts
- Slack Code is available to all plans at no extra charge, though users must pay separately for individual agent subscriptions.
- Four founding partners are live at launch: Anthropic’s Claude Code, Cognition’s Devin, GitHub Copilot, and Vercel’s agent.
- Nearly 90% of organizations already use AI to assist with coding, according to an Anthropic survey of 500 technical leaders.
Slack launched Slack Code on Aug. 20, a product that embeds AI coding agents directly into dedicated team channels. Engineers can tag an agent in a message thread, describe a feature or bug fix in plain English, and watch the agent write code, run tests, and open a GitHub pull request, all without leaving the chat.
The product is Salesforce-owned Slack’s answer to a problem its executives say has grown with AI adoption: most agent-assisted coding happens between one person and one agent, invisible to the rest of the team. Slack Code makes that work visible to everyone in the channel.
“AI only creates value when it’s part of how a team actually works, not something people go do alone in another tab,” said Rob Seaman, Slack’s Executive VP and General Manager.
Each code channel splits into four tabs: Conversation, Plan, Code Diffs, and Live Preview. Users can follow an agent’s progress, request changes, pause or stop the agent, and approve final work before it ships. For high-stakes actions like pushing to production, the agent packages its work for a human sign-off directly in the channel.
Slack VP of Product Katie Steigman described the approach as a step beyond solo AI-assisted coding. “I would say it’s the next evolution of vibe coding because it’s not just me being like, ‘let me make some slop,'” Steigman said in a demo video.
Slack Code is available across all customer plans, including free workspaces. Slack charges no additional fee to create or run code channels. Teams buy access to individual agents separately through partner vendors.
The four founding partners are Anthropic’s Claude Code, Cognition’s Devin, the Vercel agent, and GitHub Copilot. Slack plans to open the underlying code channel APIs to the broader developer community after launch.
Beyond code channels, Slack is shipping a broader agent overhaul. New features include agent DMs that behave like colleague conversations, a dedicated Agents tab with live status and a stop button, and a simplified “Add to Slack” flow. Teams can deploy agents from platforms including Lovable, n8n, OpenAI, LangChain, and Airtable in a few clicks, with OAuth and configuration handled automatically.
Security controls carry over from Slack’s existing model. Agents in code channels inherit the platform’s built-in permissions and admin controls without requiring new infrastructure or identities. Archived channels preserve a searchable record of what was requested, what the agent produced, and how the team reviewed it.
Analysts have flagged a governance question: faster, more visible approvals in a chat window also make reviews social. A thumbs-up reaction in a busy channel is not a substitute for a formal code review.
Salesforce committed $300 million toward Anthropic AI tokens earlier this year, a signal of how deeply the company is betting on agent integration across its product suite. Slack claims more than 750,000 organizations use the platform, including 77% of Fortune 100 companies, though it trails Microsoft Teams significantly on raw user volume. Teams reported 360 million monthly active users as of June 2025, compared to Slack’s 79 million.
The Claude Code integration first appeared as a research preview inside Slack in December 2025. The full Slack Code product represents the commercial rollout of that early work, with a broader partner ecosystem and a redesigned interface built around team-based development.
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