How we taught our AI coworker to take No for an answer
Jul 31, 2026·8 min readHow we taught our AI coworker to take no for an answerOur AI coworker, Claudius, named after the model he was powered by initially, has come a long way in the last 6 months. Back in January, before Slack handles for Claude were a thing, we had this crazy idea: What if we just installed the Anthropic SDK on our GitHub Actions VMs and made it listen to events by Linear? We quickly realized it would be helpful if we could ping it from Slack channels, GitHub, Slack DMs, cron jobs and Notion, roughly in this order.
- ▪Jul 31, 2026·8 min readHow we taught our AI coworker to take no for an answerOur AI coworker, Claudius, named after the model he was powered by initially, has come a long way in the last 6 months.
- ▪Back in January, before Slack handles for Claude were a thing, we had this crazy idea: What if we just installed the Anthropic SDK on our GitHub Actions VMs and made it listen to events by Linear?
- ▪We quickly realized it would be helpful if we could ping it from Slack channels, GitHub, Slack DMs, cron jobs and Notion, roughly in this order.
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| Original publisher | Taktile |
| Canonical URL | https://engineering.taktile.com/blog/claudius/ |
| Publication time | Fri, 31 Jul 2026 09:59:05 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-07-31T10:07:37.352Z |
| Last seen | 2026-07-31T10:07:37.352Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | wC_6BN4ET0jl · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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Jul 31, 2026·8 min readHow we taught our AI coworker to take no for an answerOur AI coworker, Claudius, named after the model he was powered by initially, has come a long way in the last 6 months. Back in January, before Slack handles for Claude were a thing, we had this crazy idea: What if we just installed the Anthropic SDK on our GitHub Actions VMs and made it listen to events by Linear? We quickly realized it would be helpful if we could ping it from Slack channels, GitHub, Slack DMs, cron jobs and Notion, roughly in this order. All of these features were added by Claudius himself (we asked about pronoun preference - he didn’t have one, so the ‘he’ throughout is our choice, not its).
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