Slack Code brings AI coding agents into the team chat

Salesforce launched Slack Code on Wednesday, putting AI coding agents into the group chats where engineering and product teams already coordinate. Tag Claude Code, Devin, GitHub Copilot, Vercel v0, or ChatGPT in any Slack thread and the agent reads the conversation, spins up an isolated cloud sandbox, and replies with a code diff, a live preview, or a pull request (The Register, SiliconAngle).

Each task gets its own auto-generated channel with tabs for code, previews, and approvals. High-stakes actions, including merging to production, require a human sign-off, and the feature runs inside Slack's existing enterprise security model rather than a new compliance layer (Gizmodo, Ciente).

Slack is positioning itself as an orchestration layer for the agent IDEs developers already use (Cursor, the Cognition Devin app, Claude Code desktop, Codex CLI) by meeting them in the chat tab teams open by default. Coverage names five launch partners without flagging a lead integration, a signal that Slack wants to stay neutral on which agent stack a team chooses (CryptoBriefing, Studio Global).

Three things remain unconfirmed: per-agent exclusivity, sandbox isolation guarantees, and how the agents handle private channels or DMs. Slack says Code is available on every Slack plan, so adoption starts today on the same tool teams already coordinate in.