Slack Agent Skill Now Available

Vercel has released the Slack Agent Skill, a new tool that streamlines the process of building and deploying Slack agents through coding assistants. The skill handles all the infrastructure complexity typically required for Slack integrations, enabling developers to focus entirely on agent behavior and logic.

What's Included

The skill automates the entire setup workflow across five key stages:

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 register it in Slack's console
3. Environment Configuration — Securely configure signing secrets, bot tokens, and API keys with built-in validation
4. Local Testing — Test locally using ngrok integration and verify the Slack connection
5. Production Deployment — Deploy to Vercel with all environment variables automatically configured

Getting Started

Install the skill using npm and invoke it directly in your coding agent:

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

Then invoke the wizard in your agent (for example, /slack-agent new in Claude Code) to step through the guided setup process.

Next Steps

Developers can either use the provided Slack Agent Template to deploy immediately and customize later, or build a custom agent from scratch. Free tier deployment is available on Vercel, with Pro and Enterprise options for production workloads.