Slack Code puts AI coding agents into your team's group chat
Slack's new feature gives AI coding tools their own project channels, so colleagues can watch, redirect, and approve what the software is doing before it ships anything.
Key points
- Slack launched Slack Code, a feature that gives AI coding agents dedicated project channels inside Slack where teams can follow and control their work.
- Non-technical staff such as product managers and designers can participate without opening a terminal or learning specialist tools.
- Partners including Anthropic, GitHub, Cognition, OpenAI, and Vercel are building integrations, bringing agents like Claude, Devin, GitHub Copilot, and ChatGPT into Slack code channels.
- Higher-stakes actions, such as pushing code to a live product, require human approval before the agent can proceed.
- Slack has not yet confirmed which subscription plans include Slack Code or which partner integrations are live at launch.
AI coding agents, software tools that can write and edit code on their own, have largely done their work in private: a developer talks to one in a terminal or a browser tab, then brings the result back to the team when it is ready for review. Slack wants to move that whole process into the open.
What is Slack Code, exactly?
Slack Code gives AI coding agents their own dedicated channels inside Slack, the workplace messaging app owned by Salesforce, so that everyone on a project can see what the agent is doing in real time. Tag an agent from any Slack conversation and it can spin up a code channel for that job. Team members can watch the agent work, review proposed changes, see live previews of web pages it builds, and tell it to stop or change direction whenever they like.
When the job is done, the channel archives itself and leaves a searchable record of everything that happened.
Does this mean non-developers can get involved?
Yes, and that is a deliberate part of the pitch. Slack's example walks through a product manager spotting a bug report, asking an agent to find a fix, and then bringing in an engineer to review the change before the agent opens what is called a "pull request" (a formal proposal to add new code to a project) and merges it. No specialist tool required for the product manager; they stay in Slack the whole time.
The company summarises the ideal flow as: "No ticket, no meeting, no waiting, just a fix, shipped."
Who controls the agent?
Anyone inside a code channel can pause, redirect, or stop an agent. For riskier steps, such as pushing code to a live product that real users depend on, Slack says the agent packages the action up for a qualified person to approve first. Agents also inherit whatever security rules and permissions a company already has set inside Slack, so businesses do not need to build a separate control layer around them.
Partners confirmed for Slack Code integrations include Anthropic (Claude), Cognition (Devin), GitHub (Copilot), OpenAI (ChatGPT), and Vercel. Slack says it will open the underlying APIs to the wider developer community over time, with potential uses stretching beyond coding to tasks like marketing or legal document review.
Alongside Slack Code, the company is adding Agent DMs (direct conversations with individual AI agents), a new Agents tab for finding and managing them, and an "Add to Slack" button intended to make deploying agents from third-party platforms straightforward.
Slack says users can start with Slack Code today. As first reported by The Register AI, the company has not yet clarified which subscription plans carry the feature or which partner integrations are available right now.
Common questions
Do I need to be a programmer to use Slack Code?
No. The feature is built so that non-technical colleagues can follow along, give feedback, and approve or stop actions entirely inside Slack, with no coding knowledge needed.
Can an AI agent push code live without anyone checking?
Not by design. Slack says higher-stakes actions, like deploying code to a product real people are using, require a human to approve them before the agent proceeds.
Which AI agents will work with Slack Code?
At launch, partners include Anthropic's Claude, Cognition's Devin, GitHub's Copilot, and OpenAI's ChatGPT. Slack plans to open integrations to more developers over time.
