• 1minread The Slack Agent Skillis now available, enabling developers to build and deploy Slack agents in a single session with their coding agent of choice. • The skill handles the complexity of OAuth configuration, webhook handlers, event subscriptions, and deployment so you can focus on what your agent should do rather than on infrastructure setup. • The wizard walks through five stages: Project setup:Choose your LLM provider and initialize from the Slack Agent Template Project setup:Choose your LLM provider and initialize from the Slack Agent Template Slack app creation:Generate a customized app manifest and create the app in Slack’s console Slack app creation:Generate a customized app manifest and create the app in Slack’s console Environment configuration:Set up signing secrets, bot tokens, and API keys with validation Environment configuration:Set up signing secrets, bot tokens, and API keys with validation Local testing:Run locally with ngrok and verify the integration Local testing:Run locally with ngrok and verify the integration Production deployment:Deploy to Vercel with environment variables configured automatically Production deployment:Deploy to Vercel with environment variables configured automatically Install the skill and run the wizard by invoking it in your coding agent (for example,/slack-agent newin Claude Code). • Try theskillto make your custom agent or use theSlack Agent Templateto deploy right away and customize later.

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  • Slack has released the Slack Agent Skill, a tool that lets developers create and launch Slack agents in a single session using their preferred coding assistant. The skill abstracts away the usual setup hurdles-OAuth configuration, webhook handling, event subscriptions, and deployment-so developers can concentrate on agent functionality. A wizard guides users through five stages: project setup (selecting an LLM provider and initializing from a template), Slack app creation (generating a manifest and adding the app to Slack), environment configuration (signing secrets, bot tokens, API keys), local testing with ngrok, and production deployment to Vercel with automatic environment variable setup. The skill is installed via npx skills add vercel-labs/slack-agent-skill and invoked in the coding agent (e.g., /slack-agent new).

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