Slack Actions

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Lets your agent send, edit, and delete Slack messages, react with emoji, and pin items in channels or DMs.

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Then ask your AI: use the Slack Actions skill

Details

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About this skill

Use when you need to control Slack from OpenClaw via the slack tool, including reacting to messages or pinning/unpinning items in Slack channels or DMs.

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by the-open-agent/openagent in skills/slack/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

Overview

Use slack to react, manage pins, send/edit/delete messages, and fetch member info. The tool uses the bot token configured for OpenClaw.

Inputs to collect

  • channelId and messageId (Slack message timestamp, e.g. 1712023032.1234).
  • For reactions, an emoji (Unicode or :name:).
  • For message sends, a to target (channel:<id> or user:<id>) and content.

Message context lines include slack message id and channel fields you can reuse directly.

Actions

Action groups

Action groupDefaultNotes
reactionsenabledReact + list reactions
messagesenabledRead/send/edit/delete
pinsenabledPin/unpin/list
memberInfoenabledMember info
emojiListenabledCustom emoji list

React to a message

{
  "action": "react",
  "channelId": "C123",
  "messageId": "1712023032.1234",
  "emoji": "✅"
}

List reactions

{
  "action": "reactions",
  "channelId": "C123",
  "messageId": "1712023032.1234"
}

Send a message

{
  "action": "sendMessage",
  "to": "channel:C123",
  "content": "Hello from OpenClaw"
}

Edit a message

{
  "action": "editMessage",
  "channelId": "C123",
  "messageId": "1712023032.1234",
  "content": "Updated text"
}

Delete a message

{
  "action": "deleteMessage",
  "channelId": "C123",
  "messageId": "1712023032.1234"
}

Read recent messages

{
  "action": "readMessages",
  "channelId": "C123",
  "limit": 20
}

Pin a message

{
  "action": "pinMessage",
  "channelId": "C123",
  "messageId": "1712023032.1234"
}

Unpin a message

{
  "action": "unpinMessage",
  "channelId": "C123",
  "messageId": "1712023032.1234"
}

List pinned items

{
  "action": "listPins",
  "channelId": "C123"
}

Member info

{
  "action": "memberInfo",
  "userId": "U123"
}

Emoji list

{
  "action": "emojiList"
}

Ideas to try

  • React with ✅ to mark completed tasks.
  • Pin key decisions or weekly status updates.

Signals

GitHub stars
6k
Forks
666
Last commit
Oct 2026

ahel review

  • S4info
    community integration, published by the-open-agent, not slack

Automated review, not a security audit. Ruleset v1+k2.

Advanced
Item type
skill
Key
slack-the-open-agent
Source
github.com/the-open-agent/openagent