slack-notifications

slack-notifications is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from monkilabs/opencastle. It costs 41 tokens per session (532 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A Slack connection for coding agents and people to exchange messages in channels and threads. Slack is a team chat service used for ongoing project communication.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to post updates, read channel history and thread replies, find users, and ask people to approve actions.
Why use it?
It lets agents report progress, read replies, and request approvals without relying only on the coding session. It also supports handling approval responses from Slack or the chat interface.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for slack-notifications

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/monkilabs/opencastle/slack.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/monkilabs/opencastle/slack)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/monkilabs/opencastle/slack"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/monkilabs/opencastle/slack.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 532 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 $0.00041 $0.00532
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00266
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00106
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00053

Measured 4d ago against content hash 0347404812cc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

slack-notifications 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 4d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (config.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.

src/orchestrator/plugins/slack/SKILL.md · 41 lines

What it actually says

Slack Notifications

Package @kazuph/mcp-slack (stdio). Docs: https://api.slack.com/docs. Channel mappings: .opencastle/stack/notifications-config.md

Setup

  • SLACK_MCP_XOXB_TOKEN — bot token, stored in CI/env, rotated periodically.
  • SLACK_MCP_ADD_MESSAGE_TOOL=true is required to post at all — write support is off by default.
  • Minimal bot scopes for notifications: chat:write, channels:read, conversations:history, users:read. Read-only: channels:read, channels:history, im:read.

Rate limits

Write 20/min, read 50/min. Batch updates instead of per-step chatter, thread rather than posting new messages, and cache channel/user IDs — repeated users_resolve lookups burn the read budget.

Tools

  • conversations_add_messagechannel_id, payload, content_type, thread_ts
  • conversations_historychannel_id, limit
  • conversations_replieschannel_id, thread_ts, limit
  • users_resolveemail|username

Check the response for ok; a failed post returns error rather than throwing.

Approvals are dual-channel

Post to Slack and ask in chat. First response wins.

  1. Post ⏳ Approval Required — TAS-42: <action> with reply instructions, keeping the returned thread_ts.
  2. Ask the same question in chat. A chat answer wins → post the confirmation into the Slack thread.
  3. Otherwise poll conversations_replies on that thread every 30s, timing out at 10 min, matching approved/yes/go vs rejected/no/stop.
  4. If the session ends before a reply, write a checkpoint with channel, thread ID, question, and timestamp. The next session's on-session-start hook picks up the reply.

Always thread; one thread per task; include the tracker issue ID in every message. Never put secrets in a message body.

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. 4d ago First seen · 41 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 0347404812cc

Subscribe to this mod's changes

slack-notifications is a skill published in the GitHub repository monkilabs/opencastle (61 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 532 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 2026-08-30.

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