Slack

What your agent can do

• Send messages to channels or DMs
• Read messages from channels it has access to
• Post formatted messages with markdown, blocks, and attachments
• Mention users and channels
• React to messages with emoji
• Read thread replies

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Connecting Slack

1. Go to Console → Tools → Slack
2. Click Connect Slack
3. Select the Slack workspace to connect
4. Review and approve the permissions
5. Click Allow

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Configuring channel access

1. Go to Tools → Slack → Channel Settings
2. Add the channels the agent should have access to
3. Set read vs. write permissions per channel

Note

The agent cannot post to channels it hasn’t been granted access to. Invite the Auteryn bot (@auteryn) to the channel in Slack.

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Example tasks

• “Send a message to #engineering with today’s deployment summary”
• “Check #support for any urgent messages in the last 2 hours and summarize them”
• “Post the weekly report to #general with a thread for questions”
• “Alert #on-call that the database latency is above threshold”

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Deploying an agent to Slack

You can also deploy a Customer-Facing or Collaboration agent directly into Slack as a persistent bot. See Deploy → Slack →.