slack-agent-flow

slack-agent-flow is a skill for Claude Code from nanocoai/nanoclaw. It costs 43 tokens per session (4,092 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for creating new coding agents as separate Slack bots, including their conversations with the operator and other agents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create Slack-based agents, open direct or shared rooms, add agents to rooms, and start them without restarting the host.
Why use it?
It removes the manual work of provisioning each bot, starting it, opening chats, and connecting it to shared agent rooms.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is bash setup/lib/restart.sh.

Good fit Use it to create Slack-based agents, open direct or shared rooms, add agents to rooms, and start them without restarting the host.

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About the project

NanoClaw is an AI assistant that runs agents inside separate Linux containers, isolating their files and execution environments. People use it to connect agents to messaging services and run assistants with memory and scheduled jobs. The catalogue contains skills and instructions for extending or operating NanoClaw.

nanocoai/nanoclaw · 30,720 stars · on GitHub · nanoclaw.dev

Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nanocoai/nanoclaw
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nanocoai/nanoclaw/slack-agent-flow

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,092 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
  • Snyk pass 7 Sept 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 3 findings, 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 Agent Snooping · line 111
    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
  • medium Agent Snooping · line 113
    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
  • medium Agent Snooping · line 170
    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
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 $0.00043 $0.04092
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.02046
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00818
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00409

Measured 7d ago against content hash dbcd692b49bf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

slack-agent-flow 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 7d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 18 executable files (container/agent-runner/src/mcp-tools/rooms.test.ts, container/agent-runner/src/mcp-tools/rooms.ts, scripts/slack-agent-flow-finish.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.

.claude/skills/slack-agent-flow/SKILL.md · 313 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 313 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Slack agent flow (create_agent → provisioned Slack bot)

Composes the Slack extension skills into one conversational flow: a user tells an existing Slack-wired agent "create an agent called Research", and the new agent doesn't just exist as a send_message destination — it arrives in Slack as its own bot. The host provisions a Slack app for it (managed broker, or a workspace manager token), registers it as a slack-<name> instance, hot-starts the adapter in the running host, opens a DM between the new bot and the operator, opens a three-way MPIM (operator + originating bot + new bot) registered as an agent-to-agent room, and wires everything so both agents hear the room. The flow also adds two agent-facing room actions — create_room (one shared room with N agents at once, the team primitive) and add_to_room (grow a room by one agent) — and extends the base create_agent tool with the flow's purpose / allow_guests / room parameters. Non-Slack sessions are untouched: create_agent from any other channel behaves exactly as upstream.

Canonical home. This directory on main is the skill's canonical source — the setup wizard and any direct apply read it from the checkout. The copy on the channels branch is a compatibility mirror for older checkouts whose setup fetches companions from there; edits land here, never there. The payload the Apply steps fetch with from-branch:channels stays on the channels branch, exactly like /add-slack's own.

Prerequisites

All prose below assumes these are already in place, in this order:

  1. add-slack — the Slack channel install (src/channels/slack.ts and the shared channel-layer lib src/channels/slack-lib.ts present, with slack.ts exporting its SLACK_DEFAULTS declaration and the multi-instance factory slackInstanceBridgeFactory — the adapter owns SLACK_INSTANCES registration natively, and the flow writes each new agent's tokens under that env-key scheme).
  2. slack-a2a-rooms — the bot-sender room policy (src/channels/slack-a2a.ts present), so shared rooms admit the sibling bots' posts.
  3. A provisioning credential in .envNANOCLAW_INSTALL_TOKEN (managed broker) or SLACK_MANAGER_TOKEN (direct workspace-level app creation). Without one, agent creation still works but the Slack leg reports no-credentials and points at the finish script.
  4. At least one Slack owner/admin in user_roles — the flow resolves "the operator" from the approver chain (scoped admins → global admins → owners) and needs a slack:U… identity there to open the DM and the room.

Read the full file on GitHub · 313 lines

Files

What ships with it

25 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. 7d ago First seen · 313 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A dbcd692b49bf

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slack-agent-flow is a skill published in the GitHub repository nanocoai/nanoclaw (30,720 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 4,092 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 2026-09-02.

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