Slack

Prerequisites

The following example requires the slack-sdk library.

uv pip install openai slack-sdk

Get a Slack token from here.

export SLACK_TOKEN=***

Example

The following agent will use Slack to send a message to a channel, list all channels, and get the message history of a specific channel.

cookbook/14_tools/slack_tools.py

import os

from agno.agent import Agent
from agno.tools.slack import SlackTools

slack_tools = SlackTools()

agent = Agent(tools=[slack_tools])

# Example 1: Send a message to a Slack channel
agent.print_response("Send a message 'Hello from Agno!' to the channel #general", markdown=True)

# Example 2: List all channels in the Slack workspace
agent.print_response("List all channels in our Slack workspace", markdown=True)

# Example 3: Get the message history of a specific channel by channel ID
agent.print_response("Get the last 10 messages from the channel 1231241", markdown=True)

Toolkit Params

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
token	str	None	Slack API token for authentication
enable_send_message	bool	True	Enables functionality to send messages to Slack channels
enable_send_message_thread	bool	True	Enables functionality to send threaded messages
enable_list_channels	bool	True	Enables functionality to list available Slack channels
enable_get_channel_history	bool	True	Enables functionality to retrieve message history from channels
all	bool	False	Enables all functionality when set to True

Toolkit Functions

Function	Description
send_message	Sends a message to a specified Slack channel
list_channels	Lists all available channels in the Slack workspace
get_channel_history	Retrieves message history from a specified channel

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