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  • Getting Started
    • What is Runtype?
    • Creating your account
    • Platform Keys vs. BYOK
    • Understanding the Runtype UI
    • Quickstart: Social Media Post Generator
    • Quickstart: From Agent to Chat Widget
  • Dashboard
    • What is the Dashboard?
    • Daily Executions
  • Playground
    • What is the Playground?
  • Products & Surfaces
    • What are Products?
    • What are Surfaces?
    • Creating a Product
    • Setting up a Chat Surface
    • Setting up an API Surface
    • Setting up an MCP Surface
    • Setting up an A2A Surface
    • Setting up a Slack Surface
    • MCP authentication
    • Authenticating with product API keys
    • Embedding the chat widget (script tag)
    • Embedding the chat widget (React)
    • Surface orchestration modes
    • Product views
    • Adding Capabilities to a product
    • Connecting external agents
    • How A2A works
    • Connecting to Cursor / VS Code
    • Connecting to Claude Desktop
    • Scoping API keys to capabilities
    • Auto-generated OpenAPI spec
    • Calling your API endpoints
    • Client tokens and domain restrictions
    • AI-powered theme generation
    • Widget theming and customization
    • Product versioning and status
  • Flows
    • What are Flows?
    • Creating and Editing Flows
    • Flow step types overview
    • Agent and Flow Templates
    • Using prompt steps
    • Using transform-data steps
    • Using conditional steps
    • Using fetch-url and api-call steps
    • Using record steps (upsert/retrieve)
    • Flow variables and templates
    • Flow versioning and publishing
    • Running flows in batch
    • Handling batch failures
    • Debugging flows
  • Agents
    • What are Agents?
    • Creating and configuring Agents
    • Agent tools
  • Records
    • What are Records?
    • Creating and managing records
    • Using records in flows
    • Filtering and searching records
  • Tools
    • What are Tools?
    • Built-in Tools
    • Creating custom tools
    • Creating external tools
    • Runtime tools
  • Evals
    • What are Evals?
    • Running an Eval
    • Interpreting eval results
  • Schedules
    • What are Schedules?
    • Automating batch processing
  • Logs
    • What are Logs?
    • Working with Logs
  • Integrations
    • Connecting AI model providers
    • Slack integration
    • Google Workspace integration
    • GitHub integration
    • Linear integration
    • Weaviate (vector search)
    • Firecrawl (web scraping)
    • Exa (web search)
  • Settings
    • What's in Settings?
    • Available AI models
    • What are Organizations?
    • Managing AI models
    • Managing API keys
    • Billing and plans
    • Usage data
    • Team members and permissions
    • Appearance and preferences
    • Integrations (PostHog, Weaviate, Daytona)
  • Troubleshooting & FAQ
    • FAQ
    • Rate Limits and Usage
    • Managing Runtype with Claude
    • Flow execution failures
    • Common errors and solutions
    • Authentication issues
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  • Setting up Slack integration
  • Available tools
  • Use cases
  • Formatting messages
  • Disconnecting Slack
  • Next steps
Integrations

Slack integration

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Connect Slack to let Agents send messages, read channels, and interact with your Slack workspace. Slack is available as a set of Agent tools, not as Flow steps.

Setting up Slack integration

  1. Go to Settings → Integrations
  2. Find Slack
  3. Click Connect to Slack
  4. Authorize Runtype to access your Slack workspace
  5. Click Allow

Runtype is now connected to your Slack workspace.

Available tools

Once connected, the following tools are available to Agents:

  • send_message — Send a message to a channel or user (supports Slack markdown and Block Kit blocks)
  • list_channels — List public channels in the workspace
  • get_channel_history — Read message history from a channel
  • get_thread_replies — Read replies in a thread
  • add_reaction — Add an emoji reaction to a message
  • get_user_info — Look up information about a Slack user
  • prompt_user — Ask the user to pick from labeled buttons (interactive)
  • select_from_list — Ask the user to pick from a dropdown (interactive)
  • send_rich_message — Send a message with arbitrary Block Kit blocks

Enable these tools when configuring an Agent.

Use cases

  • Notifications: Alert team when important events happen
  • Reports: Send daily/weekly summaries to channels
  • Alerts: Notify on errors or anomalies
  • Approvals: Use prompt_user to request human review for AI decisions

Formatting messages

Use Slack’s mrkdwn formatting in the text parameter:

*Bold text*
_Italic text_
~Strikethrough~
`Code`
> Quote
<https://example.com|Link text>

Disconnecting Slack

  1. Go to Settings → Integrations
  2. Find Slack
  3. Click Disconnect
  4. Confirm

Agents with Slack tools enabled will not be able to use them until reconnected.

Next steps

  • What are Agents? to build Agents that use Slack tools