Now AI coding becomes a team effort in Slack

Salesforce launches Slack Code, an environment where developers, product managers, and AI agents work on the same code in the same place. The feature is available in all Slack plans and supports agents like Anthropic's Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and OpenAI ChatGPT.

AI agents have made it significantly faster to write and deliver code. But the work often happens in isolation between a single developer and the agent, making it invisible to the rest of the team.

With Slack Code Developers, product managers and AI agents can now work with the same code in the same environment, in so-called code channels, where the entire team can follow and contribute to the work in real time.

– The context has previously stayed with the person sitting with the agent. With code channels, the work is instead open while it is in progress, so that more people can follow it and build on it, says Per Fredriksson, Chief Technology Officer at Salesforce Sweden.

How Slack Code works

When an AI agent is tagged in a Slack conversation, a code channel is automatically created for the task. The channel has its own tabs for the discussion, the agent’s work plan, the code changes, and a preview of what’s being run. When the task is complete, the channel is archived and becomes a searchable log of what was done and who approved what.

Even employees without a technical background can participate in development work. A product manager can ask an agent to fix a bug, see the result directly in the channel, and have a developer review the change on site.

– Many teams today have a bottleneck between idea and code. Simpler tasks risk ending up in the developers' queue, while those who see the problem have to wait. Now more people can start the work themselves, says Per Fredriksson.

The person approves the last step

Agents operate under the same permissions and security model that Slack already has. Anyone can pause, redirect, or stop an agent in the middle of a task, and a human must approve before the agent can push changes to production.

– Companies that already use code agents get more out of them when the work happens where the team is. What one person learns becomes available to everyone else, says Per Fredriksson.

Slack Code is available in all Slack subscriptions starting August 20, 2026.