Slack CLI for Agents
Details
- External ID
- 46905745
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Slack CLI for Agents
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Feb. 5, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 99
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8901617250673854
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
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
Enrichment
- Theme
- Claude integrations and coding agents
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Agent / copilot
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- slack cli for agents
- Manually corrected
- False
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 — 177 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #30 of 178 (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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- Agents, run any coding agent on your subscription not API costs · hn · 2026-05-31 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Switch · ph · 2026-09-08 · 403 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Smooth CLI · hn · 2026-02-05 · 109 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Slackbot’s MCP Client · ph · 2026-06-20 · 221 upvotes · similarity 0.42
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a agent / copilot tool for Agriculture yet.