slack-expert

slack-expert is a skill for Claude Code from personamanagmentlayer/pcl. It costs 69 tokens per session (1,060 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide to building Slack apps and bots with Slack APIs and frameworks such as Bolt. It covers commands, events, interactive messages, permissions, OAuth sign-in, and app distribution.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build Slack commands, buttons, menus, modals, notifications, workflows, and apps that connect to external services.
Why use it?
It explains how Slack apps receive events, request access, and present interactive interfaces without relying on generic web-app assumptions.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to build Slack commands, buttons, menus, modals, notifications, workflows, and apps that connect to external services.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/personamanagmentlayer/pcl/slack-expert
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 personamanagmentlayer/pcl --skill slack-expert
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/personamanagmentlayer/pcl

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 69 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,060 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
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 7 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 Data Exfiltration · line 144
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 146
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 147
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 151
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 153
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 158
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 165
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
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 $0.00069 $0.01060
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00530
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00212
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00106

Measured 4d ago against content hash a2083c385f79, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

slack-expert 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.

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.

stdlib/tools/slack-expert/SKILL.md · 169 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 169 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Slack Expert

Core Concepts

Slack Platform

  • Bolt Framework - Official Slack app framework
  • Web API - HTTP-based API methods
  • Events API - Real-time event subscriptions
  • Socket Mode - WebSocket-based connectivity
  • OAuth - App installation and permissions
  • App Distribution - App Directory publishing

Key Features

  • Slash Commands - Custom commands (/command)
  • Interactive Components - Buttons, menus, modals
  • Block Kit - Rich message formatting
  • Workflows - No-code automation
  • App Home - Custom app interface
  • Shortcuts - Quick actions

Development Tools

  • Bolt for JavaScript - Node.js framework
  • Bolt for Python - Python framework
  • Block Kit Builder - Visual UI designer
  • Slack CLI - Command-line tools
  • Manifest - App configuration
  • Webhooks - Incoming webhooks

Best Practices

Bot Design

  • Use clear, concise commands
  • Provide helpful error messages
  • Implement command validation
  • Use threading for conversations
  • Respect rate limits
  • Handle errors gracefully

UI/UX

  • Use Block Kit for rich formatting
  • Provide interactive components
  • Keep modals simple and focused
  • Use consistent styling
  • Provide feedback for actions
  • Make messages scannable

Security

  • Validate signing secrets
  • Use OAuth for installations
  • Request minimal scopes
  • Store tokens securely
  • Implement rate limiting
  • Sanitize user input

Performance

  • Use async/await properly
  • Batch API calls when possible
  • Cache frequently accessed data
  • Use Socket Mode for real-time
  • Monitor API usage
  • Implement retry logic

Anti-Patterns

Common Mistakes

  • Not acknowledging interactions quickly
  • Overly complex modal forms
  • Spamming channels with messages
  • Missing error handling
  • Hard-coding channel IDs
  • Ignoring rate limits

Design Issues

  • Too many slash commands
  • Unclear command syntax
  • No help documentation
  • Poor button labels
  • Inconsistent responses
  • Missing user feedback

Read the full file on GitHub · 169 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. 4d ago First seen · 169 lines · 69 tokens per session scan A a2083c385f79

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slack-expert is a skill published in the GitHub repository personamanagmentlayer/pcl (40 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 69 tokens to every session and 1,060 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 2026-09-05.

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