Your Coding Agent Just Joined the Group Chat
Slack just made your coding agent a team member. Not a tool. Not a CLI command. A full participant in your group chat that spins up its own channel, writes code in the open, and archives itself when the PR lands. Claude, Devin, Copilot, ChatGPT, Vercel — they're all in there now. And seventy percent of these code channels close within a single day. Read that again. Seventy percent. From "hey, can…
Slack has introduced a new feature that allows coding agents to join group chats. These agents, such as Claude, Devin, Copilot, ChatGPT, and Vercel, can write code in plain sight and archive themselves once the pull request is accepted. Astonishingly, seventy percent of these code channels are closed within a day, often from fixing a bug to merging a PR in under 24 hours.
The process is simple: tag the agent in a conversation, and it creates a dedicated code channel with diffs, live previews, and a running plan visible in tabs. The entire team can then observe and steer the agent's work. Once completed, the channel archives but remains searchable, providing a full audit trail. This innovation aims to enhance collaboration, as non-technical team members can describe problems in plain language, have agents draft fixes, and tag engineers for review, all within Slack.
This shift allows for real-time, collaborative code review, moving away from isolated and delayed processes. The future of coding is multiplayer, with agents no longer needing a physical presence.
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