How do AI agents use Slackbot through Open Connector?

Your user connects Slackbot once with one of its cataloged authentication methods. Open Connector stores the credential in an encrypted vault and exposes Slackbot tools to your agent over MCP or a typed API, with credentials injected server-side on each call.

Is this a Slackbot MCP server?

Yes. Open Connector can serve Slackbot as a named MCP server with a scoped allowlist and a per-user connection URL, so any MCP client can call Slackbot actions with credentials injected server-side.

Where do Slackbot credentials live?

In your own infrastructure. Open Connector keeps credentials in its own vault and injects them at call time, so they never leave your environment.

Slackbot integration

Slackbot integration for AI agents.

Slackbot integration for AI agents with secure authentication and server-side credential injection. Open Connector runs the OAuth, seals the token in an encrypted vault, and serves Slackbot tools to your agent over MCP or a typed API — credentials injected server-side, every call audited, nothing leaving your infrastructure. Open source (AGPL-3.0) and self-hostable.

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What your agents can do

Real Slackbot actions, managed and audited.

Your user connects Slackbot once; your agent can then use an installed Slack app bot for conversations, messages, files, reactions, and workspace resources — scoped to the OAuth permissions you grant and the tool allowlist you configure. Every action is least-privilege and written to a tamper-evident audit trail.

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Your user grants Slackbot access once (OAuth) — the token lands in the vault.
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Your agent calls a tool over MCP or the typed API; Open Connector injects the credential server-side.
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Every routed call appends a hash-chained audit record — nothing leaves your infra.

Tools & triggers

Supported Slackbot tools.

72 tools are generated from the published Slackbot catalog. Descriptions are plain text; each action remains subject to its configured authentication and tool allowlist.

Showing 72 tools. All published catalog entries are included in this page's server-rendered HTML.

Bots Info: Gets information about a bot user.; bots
Calls Add: Registers a new Call.; calls
Calls End: Ends a Call.; calls
Calls Info: Returns information about a Call.; calls
Calls Participants Add: Registers new participants added to a Call.; calls.participantscalls
Calls Participants Remove: Registers participants removed from a Call.; calls.participantscalls
Calls Update: Updates information about a Call.; calls
Chat Delete: Deletes a message.; chat
Chat DeleteScheduledMessage: Deletes a pending scheduled message from the queue.; chat
Chat MeMessage: Share a me message into a channel.; chat
Chat PostEphemeral: Sends an ephemeral message to a user in a channel.; chat
Chat PostMessage: Sends a message to a channel.; chat
Chat ScheduleMessage: Schedules a message to be sent to a channel.; chat
Chat Unfurl: Provide custom unfurl behavior for user-posted URLs; chat
Chat Update: Updates a message.; chat
Conversations Archive: Archives a conversation.; conversations
Conversations Close: Closes a direct message or multi-person direct message.; conversations
Conversations Create: Initiates a public or private channel-based conversation; conversations
Conversations History: Fetches a conversation's history of messages and events.; conversations
Conversations Info: Retrieve information about a conversation.; conversations
Conversations Invite: Invites users to a channel.; conversations
Conversations Join: Joins an existing conversation.; conversations
Conversations Kick: Removes a user from a conversation.; conversations
Conversations Leave: Leaves a conversation.; conversations
Conversations List: Lists all channels in a Slack team.; conversations
Conversations Mark: Sets the read cursor in a channel.; conversations
Conversations Members: Retrieve members of a conversation.; conversations
Conversations Open: Opens or resumes a direct message or multi-person direct message.; conversations
Conversations Rename: Renames a conversation.; conversations
Conversations Replies: Retrieve a thread of messages posted to a conversation; conversations
Conversations SetPurpose: Sets the purpose for a conversation.; conversations
Conversations SetTopic: Sets the topic for a conversation.; conversations
Conversations Unarchive: Reverses conversation archival.; conversations
Dnd Info: Retrieves a user's current Do Not Disturb status.; dnd
Dnd TeamInfo: Retrieves the Do Not Disturb status for up to 50 users on a team.; dnd
Emoji List: Lists custom emoji for a team.; emoji
Files Comments Delete: Deletes an existing comment on a file.; files.commentsfiles
Files Delete: Deletes a file.; files
Files Info: Gets information about a file.; files
Files List: List for a team, in a channel, or from a user with applied filters.; files
Files Remote Add: Adds a file from a remote service; files.remotefiles
Files Remote Info: Retrieve information about a remote file added to Slack; files.remotefiles
Files Remote List: Retrieve information about a remote file added to Slack; files.remotefiles
Files Remote Remove: Remove a remote file.; files.remotefiles
Files Remote Share: Share a remote file into a channel.; files.remotefiles
Files Remote Update: Updates an existing remote file.; files.remotefiles
Files RevokePublicURL: Revokes public/external sharing access for a file; files
Files Upload: Uploads or creates a file.; files
Pins Add: Pins an item to a channel.; pins
Pins List: Lists items pinned to a channel.; pins
Pins Remove: Un-pins an item from a channel.; pins
Reactions Add: Adds a reaction to an item.; reactions
Reactions Get: Gets reactions for an item.; reactions
Reactions List: Lists reactions made by a user.; reactions
Reactions Remove: Removes a reaction from an item.; reactions
Team Info: Gets information about the current team.; team
Team Profile Get: Retrieve a team's profile.; team.profileteam
Usergroups Create: Create a User Group; usergroups
Usergroups Disable: Disable an existing User Group; usergroups
Usergroups Enable: Enable a User Group; usergroups
Usergroups List: List all User Groups for a team; usergroups
Usergroups Update: Update an existing User Group; usergroups
Usergroups Users List: List all users in a User Group; usergroups.usersusergroups
Usergroups Users Update: Update the list of users for a User Group; usergroups.usersusergroups
Users Conversations: List conversations the calling user may access.; users
Users GetPresence: Gets user presence information.; users
Users Info: Gets information about a user.; users
Users List: Lists all users in a Slack team.; users
Users LookupByEmail: Find a user with an email address.; users
Users Profile Get: Retrieves a user's profile information.; users.profileusers
Users SetActive: Marked a user as active. Deprecated and non-functional.; users
Users SetPresence: Manually sets user presence.; users

FAQ

Slackbot integration, answered

How do AI agents use Slackbot through Open Connector?: Your user connects Slackbot once with one of its cataloged authentication methods. Open Connector stores the credential in an encrypted vault and exposes Slackbot tools to your agent over MCP or a typed API, with credentials injected server-side on each call.
Is this a Slackbot MCP server?: Yes. Open Connector can serve Slackbot as a named MCP server with a scoped allowlist and a per-user connection URL, so any MCP client can call Slackbot actions with credentials injected server-side.
Where do Slackbot credentials live?: In your own infrastructure. Open Connector keeps credentials in its own vault and injects them at call time, so they never leave your environment.

Give your agents Slackbot — keep the keys.

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