Slack Code puts Claude, Devin, Copilot and ChatGPT into shared channels where the whole team can watch, steer and approve the work before it ships. Slack has launched Slack Code, a product that drags AI coding agents out of private terminals and into shared channels where the whole team can follow along. Tag an agent like Anthropic’s Claude, Cognition’s Devin, GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT or Vercel’s agent from any conversation, and it spins up a project-specific code channel to take on the job. That channel carries its own tabs for the conversation, the plan, the code diffs and a live HTML preview of what the agent built. Once the task is finished, the channel archives itself and leaves behind a searchable audit log.The feature went live on August 20 and works on every Slack plan, including free ones. The catch is that access to each partner agent is bought separately, which tells you exactly where Salesforce expects the money to sit. Slack calls the idea “multiplayer AI,” and the pitch is that a product manager, a designer and an engineer can all steer the same agent without anyone opening a terminal.
Slack says writing code stopped being the hard part
“Code is no longer the bottleneck,” Rob Seaman, Slack’s interim CEO, said in a press briefing. “Ideas, taste, judgment, craft, those are the things that are the bottleneck.” Cognition backed the velocity claim with its own numbers, with president of new enterprise Jeff Wang saying merged pull requests jumped tenfold in recent months while headcount rose about 40 percent.The obvious worry is AI slop arriving at scale. Slack VP of product Katie Steigman argues visibility is the fix rather than the problem, since colleagues can see your intent and tell you the output is weak before it ships. Her own habit is to tag an engineer on every pull request she opens.On security, agents inherit the permissions of whoever invokes them. Seaman was blunt that there are no god permissions or bot-level access, and that a code channel only hands the agent context from the conversation that triggered it. Merging to production still needs human sign-off inside the channel.Slack is also shipping agent DMs, a new Agents tab with live status and a stop button, and an Add to Slack flow for agents built on Lovable, n8n and LangChain. The code channel APIs open to outside developers later, with marketing and legal work named as the next targets.