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An AI teammate for Slack.

Connect Slack and your Cicada agent works in it for you: 106 Slack actions, from looking things up to making changes. Ask from iMessage, WhatsApp, Slack or the app, and keep it read-only if you only want it to look.

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300 free credits. No card. Read-only if you want.

Things to ask about Slack
  • Summarise what I missed in #sales today.
  • Post the Monday numbers to #leadership at 9.
  • Tell me if anyone in #support mentions an outage.
  • Draft an announcement for #general about the new office hours.
Text it, Slack it, or type it in the app. Swap in your own details.
What Cicada can do in Slack

106 Slack actions, picked for what you ask.

About Slack: Slack is a channel-based messaging platform. With Slack, people can work together more effectively, connect all their software tools and services, and find the information they need to do their best work - all within a secure, enterprise-grade environment.

Reads

40 in all · always allowed
  • Find users
    Find users in a Slack workspace by any criteria - email, name, display name, or other text.
  • Find channels
    Find channels in a Slack workspace by any criteria - name, topic, purpose, or description.
  • List all users
    Retrieves a paginated list of all users, including comprehensive details, profile information,…
  • Search messages
    Workspace‑wide Slack message search with date ranges and filters.
  • List all channels
    Lists conversations available to the user with various filters and search options.
  • Fetch conversation history
    Fetches a chronological list of messages and events from a specified Slack conversation, accessible…
  • List reminders
    Lists all reminders with their details for the authenticated Slack user;
  • Fetch team info
    Fetches comprehensive metadata about the current Slack team, or a specified team if the provided id…
  • Get remote file
    Retrieve information about a remote file added to Slack.
  • List Slack files
    Lists files and their metadata within a Slack workspace, filterable by user, channel, timestamp, or…

Changes

66 in all · off when Slack is read-only
  • Send message
    Posts a message to a Slack channel, direct message, or private group;
  • Schedule message
    Schedules a message to a Slack channel, dm, or private group for a future time (`post at`),…
  • Create a reminder
    Creates a Slack reminder with specified text and time; time accepts unix timestamps, seconds from…
  • Update a Slack message
    Updates a Slack message, identified by `channel` id and `ts` timestamp, by modifying its `text`,…
  • Add reaction to message
    Adds a specified emoji reaction to an existing message in a Slack channel, identified by its…
  • Remove reaction from item
    Removes an emoji reaction from a message, file, or file comment in Slack.
  • Open DM
    Opens or resumes a Slack direct message (dm) or multi-person direct message (mpim) by providing…
  • Add emoji
    Adds a custom emoji to a Slack workspace given a unique name and an image url;
  • End a call
    Ends an ongoing Slack call, identified by its id (obtained from `calls.add`), optionally specifying…
  • End snooze
    Ends the current user's snooze mode immediately.

Showing 20 of 106. Your agent can use every one of them; you don't pick them, you ask for the outcome.

How it works

Connected in a minute. In your control after that.

  1. Connect Slack

    Open Connections, find Slack and press Connect. You sign in on Slack's own page; there's nothing to configure.

  2. Choose what it may do

    Full, Ask first or Read-only, for the whole workspace. Share Slack with the team, or keep it under each person's own login.

  3. Ask from anywhere

    Text your agent on iMessage or WhatsApp, message it in Slack or the app, or put a Slack job on a schedule: every morning, every Friday.

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Works with your other tools

Slack, together with the rest of your stack.

Ask for an outcome that spans apps and your agent pulls from each one, cross-checks them and sends back one answer.

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Questions

Slack and Cicada, answered.

Does Cicada integrate with Slack?

Yes. Slack is one of the 888 apps with a page here, and it connects with one click. Once it's connected, every agent in your workspace can use it from any channel you talk to them on.

How do I connect Slack?

Open Connections, find Slack and press Connect. You sign in on Slack's own page; there's nothing to configure.

What can Cicada do in Slack?

106 actions: 40 that read from Slack and 66 that change things in it, for example find users, find channels, list all users. It picks the right ones for what you ask and chains them with your other apps.

Can I stop Cicada changing things in Slack?

Yes. In Connections, set Slack to Read-only and no agent in your workspace can create, change or delete anything in it; it can still read. Ask first lets it act but makes it check with you before each change.

Can I ask about Slack from my phone?

Yes. Text your agent on iMessage or WhatsApp, or message it in Slack or the app. It answers in the same thread, and it can run Slack jobs on a schedule, like every morning at 8.

Is my Slack data safe?

Your Slack login or key is stored on the server and never appears in a conversation. Disconnecting removes it. Every action an agent takes is in your activity log, and your data isn't used to train models.

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