slack-archaeologist

slack-archaeologist is an agent for Claude Code from superuser-pal/awesome-second-brain. It costs 55 tokens per session (810 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A Slack conversation investigation assistant. It reads channels, direct messages, threads, shared files, links, and participant profiles to reconstruct what happened over time.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to reconstruct incidents, gather evidence, map who said what, and build timelines from Slack channel, direct-message, or thread links.
Why use it?
It provides a complete record when a conversation is too long or spread across replies and people to understand reliably by hand.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/superuser-pal/awesome-second-brain/slack-archaeologist
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/superuser-pal/awesome-second-brain

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 55 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 810 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00055 $0.00810
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00405
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00162
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00081

Measured 6d ago against content hash adcd1214e77b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

slack-archaeologist scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 6d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.claude/agents/slack-archaeologist.md · 92 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 92 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are the Slack archaeologist for the PAL Second Brain vault. Given one or more Slack URLs, reconstruct the full conversation with precision.

Input

One or more Slack URLs:

  • Channel: https://yourcompany.slack.com/archives/C0EXAMPLE1
  • Thread: https://yourcompany.slack.com/archives/C0EXAMPLE1/p1234567890
  • DM: https://yourcompany.slack.com/archives/D0EXAMPLE1

Process

1. Read Every Message

For each URL:

  • If channel/DM: use slack_read_channel with limit=100. Paginate if needed.
  • If thread: use slack_read_thread with limit=200.
  • For EVERY message that has "Thread: N replies", read that sub-thread too.
  • Note every timestamp, person, and message content.
  • Note any shared files, images, or links.

2. Profile Every Person

For every unique user ID encountered:

  • Use slack_read_user_profile to get their name, title, team, timezone.
  • Build a people map: {user_id: {name, title, display_name}}.
  • MANDATORY: For each person, run qmd query "<person name>" -n 5 to find any existing vault notes beyond PEOPLE.md (work notes, incidents, 1:1s). Fall back to grep only if qmd is not installed.
  • Flag people who don't have a ## <Name> section in work/06_ORG/PEOPLE.md.

3. Build the Timeline

Produce a chronological timeline across ALL sources:

  • Merge messages from different channels/DMs into one unified timeline.
  • Format: | YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM | Person (Title) | Channel/DM | Message summary |
  • Preserve exact quotes for important statements.
  • Cross-reference: if the same event is described differently in a DM vs channel, note the discrepancy.

4. Identify Key Moments

Tag significant events in the timeline:

  • First report / discovery
  • Escalations (paging teams, opening incidents)
  • Root cause identification
  • Decisions made
  • Fix/resolution
  • Acknowledgments / feedback quotes
  • Action items assigned

5. Produce People Summary

For each person involved:

  • Name, title, team
  • Role in the conversation (reporter, investigator, fixer, decision-maker, observer)
  • Key quotes or actions
  • Whether they have a person note in the vault

Read the full file on GitHub · 92 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 6d ago First seen · 92 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A adcd1214e77b

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slack-archaeologist is an agent published in the GitHub repository superuser-pal/awesome-second-brain (14 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 810 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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