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Slack Agent Skill simplifies building Slack agents with coding assistants

2026-02-24
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Endigest AI Core Summary

The Slack Agent Skill enables developers to build and deploy Slack agents in a single coding session by automating infrastructure complexity.

  • The skill abstracts away OAuth configuration, webhook handlers, event subscriptions, and deployment setup
  • A five-stage wizard guides through project setup, Slack app creation, environment configuration, local testing, and production deployment
  • Supports multiple LLM providers and initializes projects from the Slack Agent Template
  • Local testing is facilitated via ngrok integration to verify the Slack connection before going live
  • Production deployment targets Vercel with environment variables configured automatically
  • Install via `npx skills add vercel-labs/slack-agent-skill` and invoke with `/slack-agent new` in coding agents like Claude Code