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"In the past, you had to open Claude and ask. With Claude Tag, Claude jumps in." In this conversation, Boris Cherny (Head of Claude Code) and Cat Wu (Head of Product, Claude Code) walk through how they got there: the long-horizon and alignment research that lets Claude stay on track for days at a time, the memory system that finally feels right, and how usage spread inside Anthropic. Today, 65% of the product team's code is created by Claude. Claude Tag is available now in Slack (beta). Learn more: claude.com/tag

Jul 2, 202611mWatch on YouTube ↗

At a glance

WHAT IT’S REALLY ABOUT

Claude Tag brings proactive, long-running AI agents into team channels

  1. The speakers trace a rapid evolution from code autocomplete to agents that can deliver end-to-end features, experiments, and analyses with minimal human micromanagement.
  2. Claude Tag is positioned as a proactive, channel-embedded agent that self-initiates work, follows up over days or weeks, and persists instructions via durable memory.
  3. Research advances enabling Tag include long-running autonomy (multi-hour work sessions), self-scheduling across long time horizons, and improved memory that retains channel-specific preferences.
  4. Teams benefit from “multiplayer” workflows where everyone can observe, steer, and learn from Tag in public channels, accelerating adoption and spreading best practices.
  5. Internal usage claims large productivity gains, including a cited figure that ~65% of product-organization pull requests are written by Tag and increasing.

IDEAS WORTH REMEMBERING

5 ideas

Claude Tag changes AI from “on-demand” to “always-on.”

Instead of opening a chat and prompting repeatedly, teams add Tag to a channel and it proactively monitors, acts, and follows up over extended periods.

Durable, channel-specific memory is the core usability leap.

Tag can remember constraints (e.g., monitor only certain issue types) and adapt scope when teammates update instructions, reducing repeated prompting and coordination overhead.

Long-running autonomy enables multi-day experiments and ongoing monitoring.

The transcript describes Tag sessions running for days to weeks, checking data daily, proposing fixes, and sending pull requests as needed.

“Multiplayer” agent interaction improves output quality and adoption.

Because Tag works in public channels, multiple stakeholders can steer decisions, and observers learn effective patterns—leading to rapid diffusion across an org.

Proactive agents can unlock contributions from non-engineers.

By letting people request changes directly in-channel without terminals, git workflows, or local setup, Tag lowers the barrier to making codebase contributions.

WORDS WORTH SAVING

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We went from a person always in the loop. It's one person sitting there, and they're just typing a line at a time. And we got to one person sitting there with, like, 10 Claudes, you know, typing a bunch of features at a time.

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With Claude Tag, Claude jumps in. It's proactive. It knows when to jump in. It'll do the work, even if it takes days or weeks, and it'll follow up.

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Memory took a long time to crack. Like, I think we tried to get it right for Claude Code for years, and it feels like we finally got it right. It just, it feels really good to use.

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I think it goes to show how powerful the memory is that you're able to do something like this. You can just tell it, "Hey, remember to always do this thing," and it just has your back.

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If you look at just the product org, so, you know, the part of the company that we sit in, the number of PRs that are written by Tag, I think it's, like, 65% now, and it's just climbing like this.

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From typeahead to autonomous agentsClaude Tag: proactive, channel-native AILong-running tasks and self-schedulingPersistent memory and evolving instructionsEQ/personality and non-intrusive participationMultiplayer prompting and best-practice diffusionEngineering workflows: PRs, debugging, data analysis, onboarding Q&A

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