Salesforce has just launched Slack Code, a new feature within the Slack interface that allows users to collaborate with AI agents in “dedicated multiplayer coding project channels”.
Slack Code – which is now live on all Slack plans – will enable teams and agents to write, review, and ship code together in open channels, aiming to tackle isolated software development in the age of AI-powered building.
What Is Slack Code?
According to Salesforce, Slack Code can be used to bring coding “into the open”. Coding and software development have already benefited from code being shipped faster and becoming more accessible thanks to coding agents like Claude Pro, Claude Tag, and ChatGPT, but the challenge now lies in connecting what is being built to the conversations a team is having.
Slack Code aims to solve this issue through a number of features, including:
- Project-based code channels: Every code channel maps to one project.
- Automatic channel management: Users can tag a coding agent from any conversation, which then creates a code channel to handle the task. When the task is done, the channel archives itself, but the record remains as an audit log.
- Custom integrations: Organizations can tailor agent behaviour and connect with existing tools.
Salesforce explains that Slack Code channels are the first space in Slack that’s built specifically for people to collaborate with agents on software development together, bringing developers, PMs, designers, and non-technical teammates into the same shared workspace as the agent. This ensures that every stage of building software “isn’t just for engineers anymore.”
“AI only creates value when it’s part of how a team actually works, not something people go do alone in another tab,” said Rob Seaman, the EVP and GM of Slack. “Code channels bring that work into the open, where the rest of the team can see it, shape it, and build on it.”
Bringing It Back to the Preferred Interface
This move marks the latest step in Salesforce’s broader strategy to establish Slack as its primary user interface. Slack Channels, Slackbot, and Slack CRM have all been active releases to encourage its customers to bring their day-to-day workflows and processes into Slack.
Salesforce even calls Slack “the beating heart of work” at the company, with more than 80,000 employees using it daily. Salesforce tells us that it has a 96% satisfaction rate and continues to be one of the leading focus points in Salesforce’s UI and AI strategy, especially as the company has come to understand that giving its customers flexibility where they build is important. Anthropic, Cognition, GitHub, ChatGPT, Vercel, and more are already developing in and for Slack Code.
Final Thoughts
Now, Salesforce has both its Headless 360 layer and its enhanced Slack UI in place to give its customers and users increased flexibility when it comes to coding, building, and shipping with the CRM.
