Slack CLI for Agents
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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
HN · launched Feb 5, 2026 · 99 upvotes (top 11%) · 0 views
Niche: developer command-line tools · 226 launches, 5 in the last 7 days ▼ -67% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Communication
- Developer
- AI feature
- Commercial product
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Could you build this?
Yes Slack CLI for Agents is a command-line wrapper that reads local Slack desktop app session tokens and calls Slack Web APIs to fetch messages and files for LLM tools.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Slack MCP server (official), mIRC / BitchX (historical IRC clients), Claude Code, logbasset (Scalyr logs CLI), sentire (Sentry issues CLI)
Concerns raised: Slack Connect network effect makes migration difficult, Slack API subject to undocumented changes, No official API for unread messages, Slack encrypts local storage with non-user keys, Verbose way to list API endpoints
Feature requests: Read/browse channels rather than just messages, Shortcut or dedicated support for UNREAD messages, Universal curl wrapper for arbitrary service APIs, Simplified authentication without OAuth intermediary
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 382 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #74 of 383 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 85 days after the earliest competitor.
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