Salesforce launches Slack Code, bringing AI coding agents into shared team channels

Salesforce has launched Slack Code, a new feature that allows software development teams to work with AI coding agents inside shared Slack channels, as the company seeks to move AI-assisted programming beyond individual developers working in separate tools.

Available across all Slack plans, Slack Code supports AI coding agents including Anthropic's Claude Code, Cognition's Devin, GitHub Copilot, OpenAI's ChatGPT, and Vercel agents. Access to the partner AI services must be obtained separately.

The feature introduces dedicated "code channels" where developers and other team members can interact with AI agents while keeping conversations, development plans, code changes, and previews of running software in one workspace, with separate tabs for team discussion, the agent's proposed plan, line-by-line code differences, and a live preview of the output.

Salesforce said the setup addresses a limitation of current AI coding workflows, where developers typically interact with assistants through private terminals, browser tabs, or development environments that teammates cannot readily see.

Users can start a code channel by tagging a supported AI agent in a Slack conversation, and the channel can be archived when the work is completed while retaining its history as a searchable record. The approach also lets non-developers such as product managers, designers, and marketers participate by providing requirements, reviewing output, and giving feedback.

Human controls remain part of the workflow: participants can pause, redirect, or stop an AI agent while it is working, and final changes require human approval before being pushed to production. Slack Code also operates under Slack's existing administrative permissions and security controls, allowing companies to apply their existing governance policies to AI agents operating within the platform.

Partners welcomed the move. Anthropic said the shared environment reflects how much engineering work already starts as a conversation in Slack, GitHub is bringing Copilot into Slack Code as agents become integrated into development workflows, and executives at Vercel and Cognition said code channels make increasingly complex agent work visible and steerable by the whole team, with all context and history kept in one shared place.