Connect your AI agents to Slack. Claws can read messages, respond in threads, react to events, and trigger cross-tool workflows, all from your team's Slack workspace.

Overview

Slack is where your team already works. The ClawStaff Slack integration puts your AI agents directly into that flow, allowing Claws to participate in conversations, respond to questions, monitor channels for events, and trigger actions across your connected tools. No context switching, no copy-pasting between apps. Your Claw lives in Slack alongside your team.

The integration uses Slack’s official OAuth flow, so your Claw gets exactly the permissions you grant and nothing more. Each Claw runs inside an isolated ClawCage container, meaning your Slack data is never shared across teams or organizations, even on shared infrastructure.

What Your Claw Can Do

Respond in threads. Claws are thread-aware. When someone asks a question in a thread, the Claw reads the full thread context before responding, not just the latest message. This means your Claw can follow multi-turn conversations without losing track of what was discussed.

Monitor channels. Assign your Claw to specific channels and it will watch for messages matching patterns you define. You can set up keyword triggers, regex patterns, or even semantic matching to decide when the Claw should step in.

Handle slash commands. Register custom slash commands like /claw summarize or /claw deploy that let your team interact with the Claw directly. Commands can accept parameters and return rich formatted responses.

Share files. Claws can upload and share files in channels: generated reports, exported data, charts, or any artifact produced during a workflow. Files are streamed directly from the ClawCage to Slack without touching intermediate storage.

React to events. Beyond messages, Claws can listen for channel joins, emoji reactions, file uploads, and other Slack events. Use these as triggers for automated workflows.

Who Can Reach Your Claw

Slack whitelisting controls exactly who can communicate with your Claw in your workspace:

By user. Whitelist specific Slack users. Only messages from @alice and @bob are processed; everyone else is ignored.
By channel. Whitelist specific channels. The Claw only operates in #engineering or #support and ignores activity in other channels.
By user group. Whitelist Slack user groups like @frontend-team. Only members of the group can interact with the Claw.

This works alongside three Claw scoping levels:

Private Claw. Only the creator interacts via Slack DM. The Claw is a personal assistant, and nobody else in the workspace can message it. Example: a personal coding assistant that you DM to check GitHub PR status, search Jira tickets, or draft email responses.

Team Claw. Whitelisted team members share the Claw in a specific channel. It monitors #engineering-bugs and only responds to engineers in the @engineering user group. The rest of the organization cannot interact with it, even if they join the channel.

Organization-wide Claw. Any member of the Slack workspace can interact. The Claw serves as a company-wide knowledge bot or help desk. Still whitelisted to workspace members only, so external guests in shared channels cannot interact.

How It Works

Connect your workspace. From the ClawStaff dashboard, click “Add to Slack” to start the OAuth flow. You’ll choose which workspace to connect and approve the permission scopes your Claw needs.
Configure your Claw. Select which channels your Claw should monitor, define trigger conditions, and set response behavior. You can configure whether the Claw responds automatically, waits for a mention, or only activates on slash commands.
Deploy to a ClawCage. Your Claw is deployed inside an isolated Docker container with its Slack credentials securely injected as environment variables. The container connects to Slack’s Events API via a managed webhook endpoint.
Claw goes to work. Once deployed, your Claw receives real-time events from Slack, processes them using the AI model and tools you’ve configured, and posts responses back to Slack. All processing happens inside the ClawCage. Your data never leaves the isolated environment except to communicate with Slack and any other integrations you’ve explicitly connected.

Security

OAuth scopes are minimal. ClawStaff requests only the Slack permission scopes your Claw actually needs. You review and approve every scope during the OAuth flow.
Tokens are encrypted at rest. Your Slack OAuth tokens are encrypted before storage and are only decrypted inside the ClawCage at runtime.
Tenant isolation. Each organization’s Claws run in separate containers with no shared state, network access, or filesystem between tenants.
Audit logging. Every action your Claw takes in Slack is logged (messages sent, files shared, commands handled) and available in your ClawStaff dashboard.
Revoke anytime. Disconnect the integration from your ClawStaff dashboard or directly from Slack’s app management page. Tokens are immediately invalidated.

Cross-Integration Workflows

Slack becomes even more powerful when your Claw connects to other tools:

Slack to GitHub. A team member describes a bug in a Slack channel. Your Claw picks it up, creates a GitHub issue with the right labels and assignee, and posts the issue link back to the thread.
Slack to Notion. After a long discussion thread, someone reacts with a :memo: emoji. Your Claw summarizes the thread and creates a Notion page with the key decisions and action items.
GitHub to Slack. A pull request is merged on GitHub. Your Claw posts a formatted summary in the relevant Slack channel with the changes, reviewers, and any linked issues that were closed.
Scheduled digests. Your Claw compiles a daily digest of activity across GitHub, Jira, and other tools, and posts it to a designated Slack channel every morning.

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