NanoClaw Launches Agent Team Building Feature for Slack Integration

NanoCo., which develops AI agent development tools, has launched a new integration feature with 'Slack,' a business chat tool. With this feature, users can create a team of multiple AI agents by sending just a single Slack message. Each agent can be configured with specialized skills, unique workflows, and custom avatars.

'NanoClaw,' developed by NanoCo., is an open-source, autonomous AI agent platform designed for enterprises and is offered as an easier-to-use low-code version. While many companies have explored embedding AI agents into Slack, the actual setup process has been complex, requiring the handling of numerous authentication credentials such as administrator interfaces and API keys. NanoCo. has incorporated a 'Connect Slack' option into the new integration feature to significantly reduce this burden.

In the new Slack integration, each agent functions as an independent entity with its own unique avatar, name, and ID on Slack. Agents can collaborate with each other on Slack channels and the shared canvas feature, and can be individually invoked from other messaging platforms such as Telegram and WhatsApp. Additionally, agents can have their role, memory context, instructions, and permissions configured individually, and are designed as 'resident' entities that continuously operate rather than disposable ones that disappear when a single task is completed.

NanoClaw's basic setup follows a project cloning and installer execution approach, guiding users sequentially through dependency library installation, authentication configuration, agent container construction, and connection to the first messaging channel. The large language model (LLM) that powers agents can be freely selected by developers or enterprises, allowing optimization based on their priorities such as performance and cost. This freedom in LLM selection carries forward the specifications inherited from the open-source version of NanoClaw released in January 2026.

Gavriel Cohen, CEO and co-founder of NanoCo., told VentureBeat that "within the next 12 to 18 months, every member of the team will become an agent manager." Regarding this integration, he positioned it as "agents participating in Slack for the first time in a native form," and explained that previously, multiple agents could only be implemented by hiding them behind a single bot account.

The movement to integrate AI agents into business tools is accelerating across the industry, but most tend to remain single-purpose and one-off task types. What distinguishes NanoClaw's new feature is its positioning of agents not as 'temporary auxiliary tools' but as 'digital colleagues' that exist permanently within an organization. The structure in which multiple agents work continuously while sharing roles is closer to a small-scale digital department than a simple chatbot. Combined with an open design where LLMs can be freely selected, this has the potential to become a reference point for future enterprise agent adoption.