Slack Assistant

Send messages, read channels, search conversations, and manage your Slack workspace with AI-powered features. Summarize channels, draft replies, and prioritize important messages — all from your terminal.

Powered by Evolink.ai

When to Use

• User says "send a Slack message", "post to #channel"
• User wants to read channel history or search messages
• User asks "what's happening in #general?" or "any important Slack messages?"
• User says "summarize #channel" or "what did I miss in Slack?"
• User wants to draft a professional Slack reply using AI
• User needs to create channels, invite members, or manage workspace

Quick Start

1. Set up Slack OAuth credentials

# First time only — create Slack app and get credentials
bash scripts/slack-auth.sh setup

# Authorize your Slack workspace
bash scripts/slack-auth.sh login

2. Set your EvoLink API key (for AI features)

export EVOLINK_API_KEY="your-key-here"

3. Use Slack

# List recent messages in a channel
bash scripts/slack.sh list "#general"

# Send a message
bash scripts/slack.sh send "#general" "Hello team!"

# Search messages
bash scripts/slack.sh search "project update"

Capabilities

Core Operations

• Send messages — Post to channels or DMs with text, markdown, or blocks
• Read channels — Fetch message history from any channel
• Search — Find messages by keyword, user, or date range
• Manage channels — Create, archive, invite/remove members
• File operations — Upload and download files

AI Features (Optional)

Requires EVOLINK_API_KEY. Get one free

• ai-summary — Summarize channel activity with key points
• ai-reply — Generate professional reply suggestions
• ai-prioritize — Rank messages by importance

Commands

Basic Operations

# List channels
bash scripts/slack.sh channels

# List recent messages (default: 10)
bash scripts/slack.sh list "#channel-name" [limit]

# Send message
bash scripts/slack.sh send "#channel" "Message text"
bash scripts/slack.sh send "@username" "Direct message"

# Search messages
bash scripts/slack.sh search "keyword" [--channel "#name"] [--from "@user"]

# Get message details
bash scripts/slack.sh read CHANNEL_ID TIMESTAMP

AI Operations

# Summarize channel (last 50 messages)
bash scripts/slack.sh ai-summary "#channel-name" [limit]

# Generate reply suggestion
bash scripts/slack.sh ai-reply CHANNEL_ID TIMESTAMP

# Prioritize messages by importance
bash scripts/slack.sh ai-prioritize "#channel-name" [limit]

Channel Management

# Create channel
bash scripts/slack.sh create-channel "channel-name" [--private]

# Invite user to channel
bash scripts/slack.sh invite "#channel" "@user"

# Archive channel
bash scripts/slack.sh archive "#channel"

Example

User: "Summarize what happened in #engineering today"

bash scripts/slack.sh ai-summary "#engineering" 30

Output:

📊 Channel Summary: #engineering (30 messages)

Key Topics:
• Database migration completed successfully (5 messages)
• New API endpoint deployed to staging (3 messages)
• Code review requested for PR #234 (2 messages)

Action Items:
• @alice to review performance metrics
• @bob needs approval on deployment plan

Sentiment: Positive, productive discussions

Configuration

Required binaries: python3, curl

Security

Important: Data Consent for AI Features

AI commands (ai-summary, ai-reply, ai-prioritize) transmit message content, sender names, and channel information to api.evolink.ai for processing by Claude. By setting EVOLINK_API_KEY and using these commands, you explicitly consent to this transmission. Data is not stored after the response is returned. Core Slack operations never transmit data to any third party.

Network Access

• api.slack.com — All Slack API operations
• slack.com — OAuth authorization flow
• api.evolink.ai — AI features only (optional)

Persistence & Privilege

This skill stores OAuth tokens in ~/.slack-skill/token.json (mode 600). No elevated or persistent privileges are requested.

Links

• GitHub
• Slack API Reference
• EvoLink API
• Community
• Support