setup-slack

A guided installer and configuration process for slk, a command-line tool that provides Slack access from a terminal.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when Slack command-line access has not yet been set up or when another workspace needs to be added.
Why use it?
It checks whether the tool is available, installs it when needed, and connects it to one or more Slack workspaces.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/ericboehs/claude-plugins/setup-slack
Any agent
npx skills add ericboehs/claude-plugins --skill setup-slack
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ericboehs/claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 567 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 $0.00039 $0.00567
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00283
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00113
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00057

Measured yesterday against content hash 71986614e4f4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

setup-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 yesterday.

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.

plugins/slack-setup/skills/setup-slack/SKILL.md · 109 lines

What it actually says

Setup Slack CLI (slk)

Guided installation and configuration of slk (Slack Gem) for Slack access from the command line.

Step 1: Check Prerequisites

which slk && slk --version

If installed, check for configured workspaces:

slk workspaces

If slk is installed and workspaces are configured, tell the user their Slack CLI is already set up and suggest /slack.

Step 2: Install slk

slk is a Ruby gem. Install via mise (preferred) or gem:

# Via mise (preferred — manages Ruby version automatically)
mise use ruby@latest
gem install slk

# Or directly if Ruby is available
gem install slk

Verify installation:

slk --version

Step 3: Initial Configuration

Run the interactive setup:

slk config setup

This will prompt for:

  • Workspace name (e.g., "oddball", "dsva")
  • Slack tokens (user token for full access, or bot token for limited access)

User tokens (xoxc/xoxs) provide full access including search. Bot tokens have limited capabilities.

Step 4: Add Workspaces

Add additional workspaces as needed:

slk workspaces add

Common workspaces:

  • oddball — Oddball team Slack
  • dsva — VA Digital Service Slack
  • boehs — Personal workspace

Step 5: Build Cache

Build the user/channel cache for faster lookups:

slk cache build
slk cache build --all  # For all workspaces

Step 6: Set Up Presets (Optional)

Create status presets for quick switching:

slk preset add

Common presets: meeting, focus, lunch, ooo

Step 7: Verify

# Check workspaces
slk workspaces

# Check unread
slk unread

# Test reading a channel
slk messages #general -n 5

Behavior

  1. Run through steps sequentially, checking what's already done
  2. Don't reinstall if already present
  3. If slk is installed but no workspaces configured, skip to Step 3
  4. After setup, suggest running /slack to check unread messages
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. yesterday First seen · 109 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 71986614e4f4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

setup-slack is a skill published in the GitHub repository ericboehs/claude-plugins (2 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 567 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.

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