slack-docs

A guide for finding and using Slack's official platform documentation. It helps answer questions about Slack features and can read documentation pages from docs.slack.dev, the official Slack developer site.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to look up Slack platform features, find the right documentation page, and summarize official guidance.
Why use it?
It provides current, source-based instructions instead of relying on memory about how Slack works.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 57 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,240 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 $0.00057 $0.02240
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.01120
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00448
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00224

Measured 2d ago against content hash e77cf7647c45, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

slack-docs 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 2d 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.

skills/slack-docs/SKILL.md · 125 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 125 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Slack Platform Documentation

Help the developer find the right page on the official Slack documentation site (https://docs.slack.dev) and read it as clean markdown, so answers come from the live docs rather than memory. The site exposes three machine-readable surfaces an agent can use directly, with no authentication and no Slack workspace:

  • A search API method: GET https://docs.slack.dev/api/v1/search?query=<q>&category=<c> returns ranked page hits as JSON. Scope every search with a category (guides, reference, a specific SDK, etc.); an uncategorized search skews heavily toward SDK pages.
  • Per-page markdown: every page is available at its URL + .md (e.g. /quickstart.md).
  • Index files: /llms.txt (a curated overview) and /llms-sitemap.md (a list of every markdown page).

If $0 is provided, it is either a docs.slack.dev URL (jump to the Fast Path) or a topic to search (start at Step 1). For a broad "how do I build X on Slack?" question rather than one specific page, read https://docs.slack.dev/llms.txt first; it is a curated, LLM-oriented overview of the platform and the recommended build path.

Critical rules:

  • The docs are the source of truth. Do not answer a factual question about the Slack platform from memory; discover the page, fetch it, then answer from what it says.
  • Prefer the .md version of any page over the HTML version. It is cleaner for reading and quoting.
  • Every fetched markdown page begins with a Source: <url> line. Keep that URL so you can cite the page back to the developer.

DO NOT rules:

  • DO NOT invent documentation URLs. Get them from the search API, the sitemap, or a link the developer gave you then verify by fetching.
  • DO NOT paraphrase a page you have not actually fetched. If a fetch fails, say so rather than filling the gap from memory.
  • DO NOT assume every URL has a .md version. If a fetch returns an error, fall back to the search API or the sitemap (Step 1) rather than guessing another URL.

Read the full file on GitHub · 125 lines

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. 2d ago First seen · 125 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A e77cf7647c45

Subscribe to this mod's changes

slack-docs is a skill published in the GitHub repository slackapi/slack-skills-plugin (113 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 2,240 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 2026-08-30.

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