--- title: Slack with your AI: read as you, post after your go description: What your AI does in Slack as you: reads the channels and threads you are in, searches when the scope allows, posts a message only after you have seen it. url: https://instibrain.ai/works-with/slack updated: 2026-10-27 site: https://instibrain.ai/llms.txt --- # Slack posts wait for your go. Your own user token, from your workspace's approved app. It reads your channels, and speaks only as you. What you can ask → Where the credential stays a user token · the workspace's own app · every post shown first `team/tools/slack/slack.md` channel ids, no token asked · an example What did support decide about the invoice bug? Post it to #eng. the AI, from the page Support decided: drain the queue, run the sync by hand; the fix ships Thursday. Here is the post. Say go. where the token wentPulled from your secret store for each call. The page names channels by id. who uses it, and why ## Who asks Slack, and why. Catch up, post, share: three asks from a working week. a manager back from leave ### A week of a channel, in one read. why Two hundred messages came in while you were out. asks What did #sales decide while I was away? an engineer ### Release notes posted exactly as approved. why An announcement needs the right channel and the right facts. asks Post the release notes to #announcements. the support lead ### A file shared, and checked that it landed. why An upload can fail without a word. asks Share the incident report in #support. what you can ask ## Your AI reads your channels, and holds each post for your go. Your token reads what you read. Posts, edits and deletions are shown to you first. Read a channel or a thread Full history pulled once to a file, then analysed. Search, when the scope allows Without it, history is filtered locally. List every channel Followed to the end, since one call returns about 150. Post a message, after your go You see the exact text, and where it goes, first. Share a file Upload, then share; the AI checks it really appears. Who, and which workspace Whose token, which workspace, one person, one channel. where the credential stays ## Your AI posts with your own user token, never a bot's. A bot acts as the app. Every call here acts as you. in Slack, and in your secret store An admin approves the app once. You authorise it yourself. Posts change what the team reads, so each waits for your go. in your brain A page names the workspace, the app, and channels by id. what instibrain never touches ## Nothing posted unseen. The token sees what you see. Our server stores the channel map. - The token on screen. Read inside the call; never printed or logged. - A channel you are not in. New channels and guests go through a workspace admin. - A message you have not read. Nothing goes out before you see it and say go. the limits ## Your AI reads only what your app's scopes and your plan allow. Your app's scopes and your plan set them. | Limit | What it means | | Scopes decide | Outside them, calls answer `missing_scope`. | | The free plan answers 90 days | Older history does not come back. | before you connect it ## Your AI posts in Slack only after you say go. **Does instibrain add a bot to my Slack?** No. Your workspace's own app gives each person a token that acts as them. **Can the AI post without asking?** No. Every post waits for your go. **What can it read?** Your channels and threads. On the free plan, the last 90 days. ## Your voice, only after your go. Name the workspace and channels once. Claude Code and Codex then ask before they post as you. Request access → Connect Claude Code every kind Works with Every system by kind, and the rule each page shares. --- instibrain is made by WebWork AI, Inc. Everyone uses the same models · the difference is what yours knows.