Anthropic’s latest agent wants to be your new employee

Anthropic announced last month Claude Tag, a Slack embed that serves as a “teammate” that employees can assign work to, VentureBeat reported.

What’s new? Claude Tag was developed to function as a teammate that can asynchronously chat with a team. It isn’t the first Claude Slack integration, but it is a major upgrade. While its predecessor could only interact with one employee at a time, Claude Tag can work with any number of employees in a channel, building a memory based on the information fed to it so it can pick up incomplete tasks, according to VentureBeat. It will not, however, monitor private channels or messages, Anthropic noted on its website.

“For engineering teams, Claude Tag will help reduce time spent on debugging through fragmented Slack discussions, summarizing long incident threads, pulling context across repos, tickets, and logs, and documenting decisions after the fact,” Amit Jena, an AI development manager at IT consulting firm Kanerika, told Computer World.

Claude Tag is currently in beta for Claude Enterprise or Team users and will be available for “hire” starting Aug. 3, but pricing is not yet available.

Reminder for HR pros. AI agents have been a central workplace conversation topic for more than a year, as companies have expanded their tech stacks and sought to automate more mundane tasks.

Organizations should “develop clear frameworks” to keep them in check, according to VentureBeat. With Claude Tag, for example, companies can set AI token limits and monitor usage, ZDNet reported.

To ensure the successful adoption of AI agents, and other new technology, employers should bring workers into the process, Katya Laviolette, the chief people officer of 1Password recently told HR Brew.

“You have to bring your workforce along,” she said. “At the executive level, you can’t just be telling people you should adopt it and you don’t. So you have to walk the talk.”