slack

slack is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ashish7802/awesome-api-skills. It costs 0 tokens per session (494 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An integration guide for Slack APIs, which let applications send messages, respond to events, and provide bots or slash commands in Slack workspaces.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build Slack apps with Bolt or the Slack web API, listen for messages and events, post Block Kit messages, and work with channels or direct messages.
Why use it?
It removes the guesswork around authentication, incoming request verification, message handling, and Slack API errors or rate limits.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to build Slack apps with Bolt or the Slack web API, listen for messages and events, post Block Kit messages, and work with channels or direct messages.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ashish7802/awesome-api-skills/slack
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.

Any agent
npx skills add ashish7802/awesome-api-skills --skill slack
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ashish7802/awesome-api-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 494 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 41
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00000 $0.00494
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00247
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00099
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00049

Measured 9d ago against content hash 5579eabe2c81, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

slack 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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (examples/example.py, examples/example.ts, tests/skill.test.ts), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

skills/slack/SKILL.md · 62 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 62 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Slack API Skill

Overview

Slack APIs enable custom apps, bots, and slash commands. This skill covers the @slack/web-api and @slack/bolt frameworks.

Installation

npm install @slack/bolt
pip install slack_bolt

Authentication

Uses Bot User OAuth Tokens (xoxb-) for sending messages, and Signing Secrets to verify incoming requests from Slack.

Core Concepts

  • Block Kit: A JSON-based UI framework for building rich messages.
  • Events API: Webhooks for real-time Slack activity.
  • Conversations: Channels, DMs, or Private Groups.

Common Workflows

  1. Initialize Bolt App with token and signing secret.
  2. Use app.message() to listen to text.
  3. Use app.client.chat.postMessage to send messages.

Error Handling

Catch WebAPIPlatformError. Check error.data.error (e.g., channel_not_found, not_in_channel).

Security

You MUST verify the signature of incoming Slack requests using your Signing Secret. The Bolt framework does this automatically.

Rate Limits

Tier 1 endpoints are 1 request per second. Tier 4 endpoints (like chat.postMessage) are 1 request per second per channel.

Best Practices

Use Block Kit Builder to design UIs. Store state in your database rather than trying to pass complex state through Slack modal private_metadata.

Troubleshooting

If your app can't post to a channel, ensure you have invited the bot to the channel first.

References

Why use this skill

Use this when your agent works with slack — structured patterns beat pasted docs and prevent common hallucinations.

AI pitfalls

  • Using outdated SDK or API versions from training data
  • Inventing environment variable names
  • Omitting error handling and retry logic

Production checklist

  • Secrets in environment variables, not source code
  • Error handling and logging in place
  • Rate limits and timeouts configured

Read the full file on GitHub · 62 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 9d ago First seen · 62 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 5579eabe2c81

Subscribe to this mod's changes

slack is a skill published in the GitHub repository ashish7802/awesome-api-skills (13 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 494 tokens. 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 2026-09-03.

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