slack

A tool guide for connecting to Slack, a workplace messaging service, through its API.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to send or read channel messages, add or inspect reactions, pin messages, and look up workspace members.
Why use it?
It gives the coding agent clear instructions for common Slack tasks and for handling setup and usage limits.

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/ericwang915/pythonclaw/slack
Any agent
npx skills add ericwang915/PythonClaw --skill slack
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ericwang915/PythonClaw

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 69 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 651 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 $0.00069 $0.00651
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00326
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00130
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00065

Measured 2d ago against content hash 1ffeeefc52ec, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 2d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (slack_api.py), 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.

pythonclaw/templates/skills/communication/slack/SKILL.md · 99 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 99 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Slack

Interact with Slack workspaces via the Slack Web API.

When to Use

USE this skill when:

  • "Send a message to #general"
  • "React to that Slack message with a thumbs up"
  • "Read recent messages from #engineering"
  • "Pin this message in the channel"
  • "Who is user U12345?"
  • "List pinned items in #announcements"

When NOT to Use

DON'T use this skill when:

  • Discord messaging → use the Discord channel directly
  • Email → use email skill
  • Real-time Slack event listening → requires a Slack app with event subscriptions
  • File uploads → use Slack's files.upload API directly

Setup

  1. Create a Slack app at https://api.slack.com/apps
  2. Add Bot Token Scopes: chat:write, channels:read, channels:history, reactions:write, reactions:read, pins:write, pins:read, users:read
  3. Install the app to your workspace
  4. Copy the Bot User OAuth Token (starts with xoxb-)
  5. Configure in pythonclaw.json:
"skills": {
  "slack": {
    "token": "xoxb-your-bot-token"
  }
}

Commands

Send a message

python {skill_path}/slack_api.py send --channel "#general" --text "Hello from PythonClaw"

Read recent messages

python {skill_path}/slack_api.py read --channel "#general" --limit 10

React to a message

python {skill_path}/slack_api.py react --channel "C123" --timestamp "1712023032.1234" --emoji "white_check_mark"

Pin a message

python {skill_path}/slack_api.py pin --channel "C123" --timestamp "1712023032.1234"

Get member info

python {skill_path}/slack_api.py user --user-id "U123"

List channels

python {skill_path}/slack_api.py channels

Notes

  • Channel names can be used with # prefix or as channel IDs (C...)
  • Message timestamps serve as unique message IDs in Slack
  • Rate limits: ~1 request/second for most methods
  • Bot must be invited to channels to read/post messages

Resources

File Description
slack_api.py Slack Web API client

Read the full file on GitHub · 99 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 2d ago First seen · 99 lines · 69 tokens per session scan A 1ffeeefc52ec

Subscribe to this mod's changes

slack is a skill published in the GitHub repository ericwang915/PythonClaw (41 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 69 tokens to every session and 651 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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