Will anthropic disintermediate slack at some point?
at the limit it seems inevitable that if their cost to build is low they can build their own slack, github, operating system etc.
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#172I don't understand how this is gonna fly for enterprise security and compliance. Claude needs to inherit permissions from somewhere, and those permissions will never align with the members of a slack channel. And finding the lowest common denominator of access probably results in a dumbed-down, useless experience. The only way it works is if customers truly start treating agents as humans with the same liability as a…
An admin scopes permissions on a per-channel basis. It doesn't allow external actions until an owner specifically provisions that tool for that channel. I think. But people can be invited to a channel after @Claude is provisioned. So yeah, I suppose you'll need to be deliberate about channel memberships.
The principle if least privilege says that one should make a request to a piece of software and grant that software the specific capabilities it needs for the purpose of that request.
Having the a program that (a) follows directions from any user, (b) quite possibly follows directions from any other input it might encounter and (c) has the same broad capabilities available for every request is, well, not least privilege.
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#173TL;DR: one Claude per slack channel.
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#174Earlier quoted context omitted.
Token consumption on this is not a huge issue, I built this a few months ago for our company slack using claude agent sdk and most of the conversations/sessions were short lived. You don't generally tend to have long sessions with agents in Slack like you would if using in the terminal. It was very useful to delegate things like create a ticket based on a discussion to Claude.
> You don't generally tend to have long sessions with agents in Slack like you would if using in the terminal. You have to check the announcement fineprint. As long as they advertise it as proactive it needs to keep up to date with all the ongoing discussions. And I believe that means all group messages. Wouldn't that make sense? From the announcement > follows along with its channel, it builds more context about the…
i have a claude-agent-sdk slack bot i built for work; it offers proactive interaction as well but it uses a deterministic filter and then a haiku pass for messages that pass the filter... negligible token cost.
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#175Does anyone know if it won't leak information across slack channel since it has the memory feature?
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#176Wowza this will be a token guzzler. Assuming Claude is parsing every message posted on multiple slack channels, compacting knowledge etc. Looks like Anthropic is progressing further into platform territory and conquering Agentic use cases left right and centre. If you’re building an agent platform for workforce productivity today, your best best is model agnosticism and focus on token cost control.
It feels like a lot like mobile telecom providers, trying desperately not to become commoditised by trying to value-add up the chain. Those guys mostly just ended up annoying consumers by creating walled gardens and preinstalled apps, let's hope this plays out better.
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#177Why Slack? Everything about this product sucks: bad video calls, no meeting recording, limited screen sharing, janky authentication, and predatory pricing. They shoudl just expose SDK/platform for people to build own integration with Discord/Teams/mattermost etc. This would allow for fine grained permisions control and speed up adoption. To large degree this is alternative for OpenClaw ?
Slack has enterprise features and billing. Discord does not. People use Teams only because it's basically free when you get the M365 suite for your company, not because it's good or usable in any way.
No, Teams is just better product. It handle large video meetings, has build in recording and calendar integration. Authentication is seamless and handling many workspaces is better. Slack is only better in chat interface.
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#178Why Slack? Everything about this product sucks: bad video calls, no meeting recording, limited screen sharing, janky authentication, and predatory pricing. They shoudl just expose SDK/platform for people to build own integration with Discord/Teams/mattermost etc. This would allow for fine grained permisions control and speed up adoption. To large degree this is alternative for OpenClaw ?
This looks like a great enterprise product. Lots of companies will just enable it and voila they'll have claude in slack. They already have slack and their employees are probably used to Claude. I'm sure this will kill a few existing businesses and bring both companies more revenue
Enterprise use Teams, mattermost, nextcloud talk, Google meet and many others.
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#179I think this is the right direction. I'm increasingly viewing AI as coworkers and explaining it as such to higher ups as well. My colleagues also have different strengths and weaknesses and i know what to check and what i can rely on more. Being able to interact with Claude like i do with them will help with that. Unfortunately I'll need it in MS Teams for that. (Pls spare me your rants about Teams. We also use Windows. Deal with it.)
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#180>Today, 65% of our product team’s code is created by our internal version of Claude Tag. Yeah, that explains a lot.
They're playing a cat and mouse game hoping LLM intelligence will outpace the growing complexity and unmaintainability of their code base.