Slack Agent Skill Now Available

Vercel has released the Slack Agent Skill, a new development tool that enables builders to create and deploy Slack agents entirely within their coding assistant workflow. The skill eliminates manual infrastructure configuration by automating OAuth setup, webhook handlers, event subscriptions, and deployment to Vercel.

Five-Stage Guided Workflow

The skill guides developers through a streamlined five-stage process:

1. Project setup — Select your LLM provider and initialize from the Slack Agent Template
2. Slack app creation — Auto-generate a customized app manifest and create the app in Slack's console
3. Environment configuration — Configure signing secrets, bot tokens, and API keys with built-in validation
4. Local testing — Run locally with ngrok to verify the integration works
5. Production deployment — Deploy to Vercel with environment variables automatically configured

Getting Started

Install and invoke the skill in your coding agent by running:

npx skills add vercel-labs/slack-agent-skill

Then use commands like /slack-agent new in Claude Code to launch the interactive wizard. Alternatively, deploy immediately using the provided Slack Agent Template and customize afterward.

This tool is ideal for developers building custom Slack agents without deep platform expertise, significantly reducing the typical setup time and infrastructure knowledge required.