slack

slack is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from pbc-os/smb-starter-kit. It costs 40 tokens per session (3,088 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of instructions for using Slack, a team messaging service, from a coding agent. It covers messages, channels, automated updates, and daily team check-ins.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to send channel or direct messages, create or manage public channels, upload files, post updates, organize communication, and run standups when the required access is configured.
Why use it?
It gives the agent a defined way to coordinate work in Slack instead of leaving messages, channel actions, and team updates unspecified.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it to send channel or direct messages, create or manage public channels, upload files, post updates, organize communication, and run standups when the required access is configured.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pbc-os/smb-starter-kit/slack
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.

Any agent
npx skills add pbc-os/smb-starter-kit --skill slack
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pbc-os/smb-starter-kit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,088 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00040 $0.03088
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.01544
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00618
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00309

Measured 8d ago against content hash 0ae3b4ff74a6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

slack scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 8d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

bins: ["curl", "jq"]
skills/tier-2-communication/slack/SKILL.md · 377 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 377 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Slack

Team messaging built for how small businesses actually communicate.

For user lookups and directory management, see the slack-directory skill. This skill covers everything else: sending messages, managing channels, posting automated updates, and organizing your team's communication.

Triggers

  • "send a slack message"
  • "post to #channel"
  • "message the team"
  • "set up slack channels"
  • "slack standup"
  • "post an update to slack"
  • Any request involving Slack messaging, channels, or team communication

Prerequisites

  • Slack Bot Token with appropriate scopes (see Setup below)
  • jq installed for JSON parsing
  • slack-directory skill for user lookups
  • secrets-manager skill for secure token storage

Setup

Required Bot Token Scopes

Scope What It Enables
chat:write Send messages to channels and DMs
channels:read List and get info about public channels
channels:manage Create and archive public channels
groups:read List private channels the bot is in
im:write Send direct messages
users:read Look up users (for slack-directory)
files:write Upload files to channels
reactions:write Add emoji reactions

Getting Your Bot Token

  1. Go to api.slack.com/apps
  2. Create a new app (or use existing)
  3. Go to OAuth & Permissions → add the scopes above
  4. Install to your workspace
  5. Copy the Bot User OAuth Token (xoxb-...)
  6. Store securely:
    # GCP Secret Manager (recommended)
    echo -n "xoxb-your-token" | gcloud secrets create slack-bot-token --data-file=-
    
    # Or set as environment variable
    export SLACK_BOT_TOKEN="xoxb-your-token"
    

Retrieving Your Token

# From GCP Secret Manager
TOKEN=$(gcloud secrets versions access latest --secret="slack-bot-token")

# From environment
TOKEN="$SLACK_BOT_TOKEN"

Every message and channel change is visible to your team and hard to fully unsend. Before the agent posts a message, sends a DM, creates or archives a channel, or uploads a file, show the user the exact text and target and get explicit approval — unless they've pre-approved a specific recurring automation (e.g. a daily briefing to a named channel), in which case state that standing approval the first time and stay within its scope.

Read the full file on GitHub · 377 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. 8d ago First seen · 377 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 0ae3b4ff74a6

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slack is a skill published in the GitHub repository pbc-os/smb-starter-kit (10 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 3,088 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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