Slack is not an app connection. Agents never call the Slack API as a tool, and there is no Slack credential to grant. It is a channel: a place where people talk to agents, in the same threads they already use for everything else.Two things live here. Agents answer in Slack, and they ask for approval there, so the person who has to decide gets the question where they already are instead of in a dashboard they would have to remember to open.Connecting takes one click.
In OneCLI, open Settings > Channels and select Add to Slack.
Team onboarding, on the Channels page in OneCLI.
Slack’s consent page opens. If your workspace requires admin approval for new apps, the install completes on its own once an admin approves it, with nothing more to do in OneCLI.
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Let teammates onboard themselves
Once installed, anyone in the workspace can DM the OneCLI app to get their own OneCLI account. No invitation, and no admin step per person.
Installing the app is an org-level action, so it needs someone who can install Slack apps in your workspace. After that, individual teammates need nothing.
Talk to it directly, the same as the chat in the dashboard
Mention it in a channel
Bring an agent into a thread your team is already having
Approval cards
Approve or deny a pending action without leaving Slack
Reach requests
Decide whether an agent may answer someone new: approve, limit to workspace members, or block
Mirrored replies
An agent’s answer appears in the thread it was asked in
Who may talk to an agent is still yours to set. An agent reached by someone new raises a reach request rather than answering, and you choose each time.
Slack changes where the conversation happens, not what an agent may do. Its grants and your organization rules apply to every message, whether it arrived from Slack or the dashboard, and anything needing approval still waits for a human.The card is the point. An agent about to send an email or spend money asks in the channel, and whoever is there answers in a click.To disconnect, open Settings > Channels and remove the installation. You can also remove the OneCLI app from Slack’s own app management page, which revokes its workspace token.
Skip this section on OneCLI Cloud. The shared app is already approved and installed in one click.
A self-hosted deployment has no shared OneCLI Slack app, so it creates its own. OneCLI does the creating, and you supply one short-lived token to let it.
The two Copy buttons look identical. Check the column heading.
Paste it into OneCLI
Open Settings > Channels and paste the token. OneCLI uses it to create the Slack app for your agents, then rotates it from then on.Paste it promptly. Each refresh token works only once, and a used or expired one has to be regenerated from the same page.
An App Configuration token can create and modify Slack apps in your workspace, so treat it like a password. It is also the only part of this setup that differs from Cloud, everything above this divider works the same way once the app exists.
Only relevant if you run your own Slack app and want to distribute it beyond your workspace. Slack reviews every listing, and its guidelines ask for a few pages you have to supply yourself.
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What Slack expects
Installation landing page URL
A public page, not behind a login, built for the Slack app. It needs an Add to Slack button or install instructions, an explanation of what the app does in Slack, a link to your privacy policy, and a success page after install. Not a PDF or a repo link.
Privacy policy URL
What data you collect, how it is used, how long it is kept, and how someone requests access or deletion, with an email or web form to contact.
Support URL
A public way to reach a human, with replies within two business days, and no extra account required to ask.
Categories
Up to three. Developer Tools and Productivity fit OneCLI.
Slack asks for an extra disclaimer when an app exposes people to a language model: say on the landing page and in the long description that outputs can be inaccurate. Slack also forbids training models on Slack data. Both matter for an agent app.
Expect scope questions during review. Slack approves only scopes tied to features it can test and asks what each one is for, so keep the list to what the app actually uses.
