Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude in coding-related messages and threads. It’s up-to-date will launch today in beta as a preview of research.
When Claude is flagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it is a coding job, and if so, redirect it to Claude Code using context from the associated Slack thread and code repositories authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly inform Claude that the request is a coding task. For example, you can ask Claude to review a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without having to manually copy the entire context into Claude Code.
The up-to-date function is part of the existing one Claude app for Slackwhich previously acted as a chatbot in the application. So there is no need to download anything up-to-date if you already have it, but you must have it online version of Claude Code configure the code repositories you want to employ.
This extension of the Claude Slack app comes just a few weeks after Anthropic launched its up-to-date Claude Opus 4.5. Anthropic claims that the latest version of Claude is superior to Google Gemini 3 – whose overall forceful testing shook the industry around its release – particularly in terms of encoding, but still suffers from some security issues. For example, early tests showed that Opus 4.5 rejected only 78 percent of requests to create malware and other malicious code.