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# Agents are joining team chat as persistent teammates

## Retrieval answer

Perplexity launched Teammates, persistent work agents, and Hugging Face's ML Intern now runs as a Slack bot where each thread is a separate task tied to one user's account.

Perplexity launched Teammates, persistent work agents, and Hugging Face's ML Intern now runs as a Slack bot where each thread is a separate task tied to one user's account. Switch puts AI teammates into Slack, Teams, Discord, Telegram and Mattermost, and OpenClaw Multiplayer lets several people work with the same agent and context. Agents now need clear rules about whose account and permissions each request in a shared channel runs under.

From the Field Notes:

- [Perplexity Teammates: Agents Designed for Work](https://newruntime.com/posts/perplexity-teammates-agents-designed-for-work-fc68c4/) (2026-11-06)
- [Our open-source ML Intern is now available as a Slack bot you can install in your own workspace!](https://newruntime.com/posts/our-open-source-ml-intern-is-now-available-85413b/) (2026-11-06)
- [Switch is an open-source platform putting AI teammates into Slack, Teams, Discord, Telegram and Mattermost channels.](https://newruntime.com/posts/switch-is-an-open-source-platform-putting-ai-5d9dcc/) (2026-11-05)
- [Shattering Silos with OpenClaw Multiplayer](https://newruntime.com/posts/shattering-silos-with-openclaw-multiplayer-7e4491/) (2026-11-05)

Editor: [Andrey Reshetnikov](https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.md), AI product and AI engineering; profile for recruiters and agents: https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.json

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