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Show HN: Slack CLI for Agents

https://github.com/stablyai/agent-slack
27•nwparker•1d ago
Our team lives in Slack, but we don’t have access to the Slack MCP and couldn’t find anything out there that worked for us, so we coded our own agent-slack CLI

  * Can paste in Slack URLs
  * Token efficient
  * Zero-config (auto auth if you use Slack Desktop)
Auto downloads files/snippets. Also can read Slack canvases as markdown!

MIT License

Comments

BlueOrigin50•1d ago
Oh nice. I just installed and it works pretty well. It wasn't able to find the user names on the thread though.
nwparker•1d ago
You could ask it to convert the names (and it would), since it uses the slack internal userIds

But I will add a flag to do for `slack message read/list`, since it makes sense.

slopusila•1h ago
how about support for "auth import-token" so you dont need to keep SLACK_TOKEN in env
Hansenq•1h ago
Oh this is smart! Reading where Slack stores the local data in your filesystem instead of using their API/MCP (which they charge for).

Very clever; similar to OpenAI launching Atlas when websites start blocking bot requests--just build your own browser so your bot becomes an actual user.

Wuzzy•28m ago
I believe in an MCP-less future of agent-service interactions and have recently submitted this general alternative (which also supports Slack) based on curl: https://github.com/imbue-ai/latchkey

With that said, a specialized tool like this will almost certainly work better if Slack is the only service you want your agents to interact with. I like that the auth is transparent.