Slack
Connect Slack from Integrations in the Workforce AI dashboard, then ask your AI employee to use it as part of a job. The action reference below is normalized from the current Slack toolkit reference into plain business language.
Good first jobs
Section titled “Good first jobs”- Summarize a channel or conversation.
- Prepare a team update in the right voice.
- Find a decision from an earlier thread.
Connect Slack
Section titled “Connect Slack”- Open Workforce AI and choose Integrations.
- Find Slack and select Connect.
- Complete the provider sign-in or connection details shown on screen.
- Return to your AI employee and give it one clear job using Slack.
The provider controls which accounts and workspaces you can authorize. You can reconnect or remove the connection from the Integrations page.
Available tools
Section titled “Available tools”- Add a remote file from a service
- Add call participants
- Add emoji
- Add emoji alias
- Add enterprise user to workspace
- Add reaction to an item
- Add remote file
- Add star
- Admin conversations search
- Archive conversation
- Assistant search context
- Assistant search info
- Chat post message
- Create a reminder
- Create canvas
- Create channel
- Create channel based conversation
- Create enterprise team
- Create slack list
- Create slack list item
- Create user group
- Delete a slack reminder
- Delete canvas
- Delete channel
- Delete file
- Delete file comment
- Delete multiple slack list items
- Delete reminder
- Delete scheduled message
- Delete slack list access
- Delete slack list item
- Delete user profile photo
- Download slack file
- Edit canvas
- Fetch conversation history
- Fetch item reactions
- Fetch message thread from a conversation
- Fetch team info
- Find channels
- Find users
- Find user by email address
- Get app permission scopes
- Get audit action types
- Get audit schemas
- Get bot user
- Get call info
- Get canvas
- Get channel conversation preferences
- Get reminder
- Get remote file
- Get slack list item
- Get team profile
- Get unread messages from user
- Get user dnd status
- Get user presence
- Get workspace connections for channel
- Get workspace settings
- Invite users to a slack channel
- Invite user to channel
- Invite user to workspace
- List admin apps approved
- List admin apps requests
- List admin emoji
- List all channels
- List all users
- List approved workspace invite requests
- List auth teams
- List available workspaces
- List canvases
- List conversations
- List custom emojis
- List denied workspace invite requests
- List enterprise teams
- List files with filters in slack
- List idp groups linked to channel
- List pending workspace invite requests
- List pinned items
- List reminders
- List remote files
- List restricted apps
- List scheduled messages
- List slack list items
- List starred items
- List unread channel messages
- List user groups
- List user group members
- List user reactions
- List workspace admins
- List workspace owners
- List workspace users
- Lookup canvas sections
- Manually set user presence
- Read audit logs
- Remove call participants
- Remove emoji
- Remove reaction from item
- Remove remote file
- Remove star
- Remove user from conversation
- Remove user from workspace
- Retrieve a user s identity details
- Retrieve conversation information
- Retrieve conversation members list
- Retrieve current user dnd status
- Retrieve detailed information about a file
- Retrieve detailed user information
- Retrieve message permalink url
- Retrieve user profile information
- Scim get config
- Search all
- Search messages
- Send ephemeral message
- Send message
- Send me message
- Set admin user
- Set conversation prefs
- Set conversation purpose
- Set default channels
- Set dnd duration
- Set profile photo
- Set read cursor in a conversation
- Set slack list access
- Set status
- Set the topic of a conversation
- Set user active
- Set user presence
- Set user profile
- Set workspaces for channel
- Set workspace description
- Set workspace icon
- Set workspace name
- Set workspace owner
- Share remote file
- Update call info
- Update remote file
- Update slack list
- Update slack list item
- Update user group
- Update user group members
- Upload or create a file in slack
Workforce AI applies its approval rules to actions that create, change, send, publish, move, or remove information. When an action needs approval, you will see it in Approvals before it runs.
How to ask for the work
Section titled “How to ask for the work”Use the result you want and the record or audience involved:
Using Slack, summarize a channel or conversation. Show me the result here.
For recurring work, add the timing, the information to use, and the finish line. You can save a successful job as a schedule when it should run on a regular rhythm.
Common questions
Section titled “Common questions”Does Workforce AI need my Slack password?
Section titled “Does Workforce AI need my Slack password?”Use the provider sign-in or connection screen shown by Workforce AI. OAuth providers keep your password with the provider.
Why is a proposed action waiting?
Section titled “Why is a proposed action waiting?”Open Approvals in Workforce AI. Review the complete proposal, then approve or deny it.
How do I switch to another Slack account?
Section titled “How do I switch to another Slack account?”Open Integrations, remove or reconnect Slack, and choose the account you want during the provider sign-in.
Can I use Slack in a scheduled job?
Section titled “Can I use Slack in a scheduled job?”Yes. Once the connection and job work the way you want, tell your AI employee when the job should run.