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Automation 3/30+: Put an AI agent inside Slack

"Does the app already do this?" gets asked in Slack ten times a week, and the answer lives in a repo nobody in that channel can read.

What it does

  • @mention it in a channel or DM → it answers from your actual codebase, not from a guess
  • It watches the channels you choose and triages what lands there
  • Something in the chatter is a real bug → it escalates it as a GitHub issue
  • Signed Slack Events API, acknowledged in under 3 seconds, so Slack never shows a timeout

What it does not do

It never posts on someone's behalf, never DMs your team unprompted, and never closes the issues it files.

Honest note: beta — built and smoke-tested, not yet battle-hardened in a busy workspace.

Setup

clone → ./setup.sh → pick Slack → answer a few questions
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~5 minutes. No server, no database, free.

Get it

The recipe is open source: github.com/akshaypatel-ai/ai-automations

This is one of 30+ automations in the series — the full write-up lives on my site.

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