Use when a developer wants to build or validate Block Kit layouts for Slack messages, modals, or Home tabs: message layouts, modals/forms/dialogs, Home tab interfaces, interactive buttons or menus, or modifying existing Block Kit JSON. Also trigger on any Slack UI component (sections, actions, inputs, headers, alerts…
Use when a developer wants to create, scaffold, or bootstrap a new Slack app or agent from scratch with the Slack CLI. Covers prerequisites, sandbox setup, authentication, and creating + running a project from a Bolt (JS or Python) template locally. Trigger on "create a Slack app", "new Bolt app", "start a Slack…
Use when a developer asks which Slack Web API method does something, needs a method's OAuth scopes or token type, wants to call or test a family.method endpoint (chat.postMessage, conversations.history, users.info, views.open), is handling cursor pagination (nextcursor) or rate limits (tier/ratelimited/Retry-After)…
Use when a developer works with the Slack CLI (slack command) to create, run, or manage a Slack app from the terminal: logging in or authenticating (slack login), adding a team or switching workspaces, running locally (slack run), deploying, editing the app manifest, calling Web API methods (slack api), or searching…
Use when answering a conceptual or how-to question about Slack platform features, or when asked to look up, fetch, or summarize a docs.slack.dev page, including a pasted docs.slack.dev link. Covers finding and reading official Slack docs as clean markdown.
Use when writing, drafting, scheduling, or improving a Slack message, announcement, or reply sent via the Slack MCP tools (slacksendmessage, slacksendmessagedraft, slackschedulemessage). Covers Slack markdown formatting, message structure, thread etiquette, reactions, and scheduling, and points to the right dialect…
Use when locating messages, files, channels, or people across Slack, or gathering context before answering, with the search MCP tools (slacksearchpublic, slacksearchpublicandprivate, slacksearchchannels, slacksearchusers). Covers search modifiers (in:, from:, before:), file-type filters, natural-language vs. keyword…
Use when a developer wants to test, try out, smoke-test, verify, or confirm that a Slack app built with the Slack CLI (or a plain Bolt app) actually works, by running it in a developer sandbox (never a workspace with real users) with slack run and exercising its real slash commands, shortcuts, events, actions, modals…