slack-message-check

slack-message-check is a skill for Codex from itseffi/agentic-os. It costs 25 tokens per session (415 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A check of Slack, a workplace messaging service, for important messages and recent activity. It is intended for daily planning or when Slack updates are requested.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during daily planning or when you need to review important Slack messages and activity.
Why use it?
It reduces the chance of missing relevant conversations or updates while planning work. The check brings recent Slack activity into the decision-making process.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Use it during daily planning or when you need to review important Slack messages and activity.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/itseffi/agentic-os/slack-message-check
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add itseffi/agentic-os --skill slack-message-check
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/itseffi/agentic-os

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 25 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 415 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.
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 $0.00025 $0.00415
Opus 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00166
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00083
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00042

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 9ddbb4df332c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

slack-message-check 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 1mo 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

.agents/skills/slack-message-check/SKILL.md · 76 lines

What it actually says

Slack Message Check

Check Slack channels for important messages and summarize activity.

Instructions

Step 1: List Relevant Channels

Call slack_list_channels to see available channels.

Step 2: Check Priority Channels

For each important channel (determined by user preferences or channel activity):

  1. Call slack_get_channel_history with limit of 20 messages
  2. Filter for messages since last check

Step 3: Summarize Activity

Present findings to user:

Slack activity since yesterday:

**#general** (3 new messages)
- @alice mentioned the deployment schedule

**#engineering** (12 new messages)  
- Discussion about API changes
- @bob asked for review on PR #234

**DMs** (2 unread)
- @carol: Question about meeting time

Step 4: Offer Actions

Option Description
Create task Turn a message into a task
Reply Draft a response
Mark read Continue without action

Step 5: Continue Daily Flow

After Slack check, continue with normal planning workflow.

Example Flow

User: "What should I work on today?"

Agent:

  1. Checks Slack for new activity
  2. "You have 5 new messages across 2 channels..."
  3. Summarizes key items
  4. Offers to create tasks from actionable messages
  5. Continues with task planning

Notes

  • Focus on actionable messages, not all activity
  • Prioritize DMs and mentions over general channel noise
  • Respect user's channel preferences if configured

When to Use

Use this skill when the task directly matches the workflow described above.

When Not to Use

Do not use this skill when the request is unrelated, low-stakes, or better handled by a simpler direct response.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 76 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A 9ddbb4df332c

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slack-message-check is a skill published in the GitHub repository itseffi/agentic-os (117 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 415 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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