Slack wants to drag AI coding out of the terminal and into the group chat
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ventureBeat
August 20, 2026 · 17:00
Slack wants to drag AI coding out of the terminal and into the group chat.The Salesforce-owned messaging platform today announced Slack Code, a new product that embeds AI coding agents — including Anthropic's Claude Code, Cognition's Devin, GitHub Copilot, and Vercel's agent — directly into dedicated Slack channels where entire teams can watch, steer, review, and ship software together. Slack Code is available on any Slack plan at launch, though customers need their own access to the partner agents.The pitch is deceptively simple: today, most work with AI coding agents happens between one person and one agent, invisible to everyone else. Slack Code makes that work "multiplayer." When someone tags a coding agent from any conversation, the agent spins up a project-specific code channel, does…
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