Install guide and config at curatedmcp.com

Slack Connector: Give Your AI Agent Direct Access to Your Team's Slack Workspace

Your AI agent can now read messages, send updates, and manage your Slack workspace programmatically. The Slack Connector MCP server bridges Claude, Cursor, and other AI tools directly to the Slack API, eliminating the need to manually copy-paste conversation context or manually post updates.

What It Does

This MCP server exposes core Slack capabilities to your AI agent without requiring you to build custom API wrappers. Read full conversation history with thread support to give Claude context about past discussions. Send messages to channels or direct messages automatically. Manage channel membership, react with emoji, upload files, and even respond to slash commands — all from within your agent's workflow.

The practical effect: your AI assistant becomes a proper Slack citizen. It can participate in team discussions, fetch the information it needs directly from Slack, and take action without human intermediaries.

How to Install

Visit the CuratedMCP marketplace for the current install command and your Slack API token setup.

For Claude Desktop, add this to your claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "slack-connector": {
      "command": "npx @modelcontextprotocol/server-slack",
      "env": {
        "SLACK_BOT_TOKEN": "xoxb-your-token-here"
      }
    }
  }
}

Generate a bot token in your Slack workspace settings, grant it the necessary permissions (chat:write, channels:read, users:read, reactions:write, files:write, etc.), and you're ready.

Real-World Use Cases

• Automated standup summaries: Ask Claude to fetch the last 24 hours of messages from your #engineering channel, synthesize them into a standup report, and post it back to #general.
• On-demand documentation search: Query Slack's archive directly from Cursor to find how your team previously solved a problem, without leaving your editor.
• Incident response helper: Have your AI agent listen for messages in a #incidents channel, gather context from pinned messages and threads, and propose remediation steps in a thread.

Full install guides for Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, and more at CuratedMCP.