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

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. To go one step further: the company's new NanoClaw Slack integration lets human users spin up entire teams of agents with their own specialized skills, workflows, and even custom avatars, all from a single Slack prompt."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. Furthermore, 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 across messaging platforms, just as they would their fellow humans. “I think this is agents arriving natively in Slack for the first time,” Cohen added. “In the p…