NanoClaw comes to Slack, letting you create persistent AI agent teams and colleagues from a single message

The useful part

Adding an AI agent to Slack sounds appealing to many enterprises — but, as VentureBeat has experienced ourselves first hand — the reality is often far more complex and clunkier than it first seems. Now NanoCo., the company behind the hit open source, enterprise-friendly, autonomous AI agent harness NanoClaw (a more sandboxed, lower code version of OpenClaw), is hoping to make it just as easy as typing a Slack message. "In the next 12 to 18 months, everyone on a team will be a manager of agents," NanoCo CEO and co-founder Gavriel Cohen told VentureBeat in an exclusive interview.

How it works

• NanoClaw is not presenting the additional workers as invisible subagents that disappear after one task.
• the NanoClaw agents can work together in channels and shared Slack Canvases, and can even be messaged outside of Slack on other platforms like Telegram or WhatsApp, letting their human colleagues ping them...
• "I think this is agents arriving natively in Slack for the first time," Cohen added.
• "In the past, you had to do all these weird things to try to have multiple different agents behind the scenes using the same bot, and now every agent gets its own identity in Slack — its own avatar, its own...
• They can tag each other." For enterprise teams, the more consequential part is persistence and separation.

What to take from it

Each can be given its own role, memory context, instructions and permissions, creating a structure closer to a small digital department than a single chatbot with a long prompt.