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An AI teammate for Slackbot.

Connect Slackbot and your Cicada agent works in it for you: 106 Slackbot 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 Slackbot
  • What's overdue in Slackbot, and who owns it?
  • Turn the action items from today's call into Slackbot tasks.
  • Post a Friday summary of what got done in Slackbot to #team.
  • Which Slackbot projects have had no updates in two weeks?
Text it, Slack it, or type it in the app. Swap in your own details.
What Cicada can do in Slackbot

106 Slackbot actions, picked for what you ask.

About Slackbot: Slackbot gives agents workspace-wide read access to a Slack workspace on behalf of the installing user - search messages and files, browse channel and thread history, and look up users and channels - while continuing to post and react as the bot.

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 Slackbot 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 Slackbot

    Open Connections, find Slackbot and press Connect. You sign in on Slackbot'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 Slackbot 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 Slackbot job on a schedule: every morning, every Friday.

Works with your other tools

Slackbot, 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

Slackbot and Cicada, answered.

Does Cicada integrate with Slackbot?

Yes. Slackbot 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 Slackbot?

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

What can Cicada do in Slackbot?

106 actions: 40 that read from Slackbot 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 Slackbot?

Yes. In Connections, set Slackbot 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 Slackbot 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 Slackbot jobs on a schedule, like every morning at 8.

Is my Slackbot data safe?

Your Slackbot 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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