Salesforce introduces Slack Code to bring agentic team coding into the open

Salesforce has rolled out Slack Code, a new way to work with coding agents directly in Slack while keeping the whole team in the conversation. The pitch is simple: don’t hide the work inside one developer’s terminal. Put it in the channel, let people see it, and keep the context around after the discussion ends.

The feature is built around a familiar Slack move. Someone tags an agent in a channel, Slack opens a Code Channel, the agent starts working, and the output shows up in a canvas. That can include diffs, previews, and the rest of the visible trail a team usually has to reconstruct later. Salesforce says the system works with agents from Anthropic’s Claude Code, Vercel’s v0, Cognition AI’s Devin, OpenAI’s ChatGPT and others.

Ryan Gavin, Slack’s chief marketing officer, framed the change as a way to compress the trip from idea to shipped code. He argued that software work has too often been a solo act, even when the result is supposed to serve a whole organization. In his view, AI agents are already speeding up coding, and Slack Code is meant to move more of that speed into shared spaces where teams can learn from what’s happening as it happens.

That still doesn’t mean engineers are out of the picture. Salesforce says the hard coding in terminals and IDEs remains necessary, but the scaffolding can happen earlier in Slack with feedback from the right people at the right time. The company’s bet is that this will cut down on churn when teams build in the wrong direction and only discover it after a painful review cycle.

The broader idea is that other departments can join sooner too. Marketing or design can weigh in on user-facing changes, and non-technical teams can even start their own agent-driven work before handing it off for engineering polish. The work, the diffs, the GitHub links, the canvases and the rest of the trail stay archived in Slack, so the team can look back at how the project evolved. Salesforce says Slack Code is available now on any Slack plan, as long as the user already has access to the agent they want to use.