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Slack Bot

Create an AI assistant for your Slack workspace.

Overview

A Slack bot that responds to mentions and direct messages with AI-powered answers.

Time to deploy: ~15 minutes

Quick Deploy

git clone https://github.com/xenoISA/quickstart-slack-bot
cd quickstart-slack-bot
pip install -r requirements.txt
cp .env.example .env
# Add your Slack tokens to .env
python main.py

Slack Setup

  1. Create a Slack App at api.slack.com 
  2. Enable Socket Mode
  3. Add OAuth scopes: chat:write, app_mentions:read, im:history
  4. Install to workspace and copy tokens

Implementation

from slack_bolt.async_app import AsyncApp
from isa_agent_sdk import Agent
 
app = AsyncApp(token=SLACK_BOT_TOKEN)
 
agent = Agent(
    name="slack-bot",
    model="claude-sonnet-4-20250514",
    tools=["web_search", "calculator"],
    memory={"type": "session"}
)
 
@app.event("app_mention")
async def handle_mention(event, say):
    response = await agent.run(event["text"])
    await say(response.content)
 
@app.event("message")
async def handle_dm(event, say):
    if event.get("channel_type") == "im":
        response = await agent.run(event["text"])
        await say(response.content)
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