What is slack-bot-skill?

Slack Bot Skill lets you send messages to Slack channels directly from your AI coding assistant. Instead of copying and pasting updates into Slack by hand, you can just tell your assistant something like "send a message to #my-channel saying hello" and it handles the delivery for you. The tool works as a "skill", essentially a capability you add to an AI assistant so it can do something it couldn't do on its own. It communicates with Slack through their standard web API using cURL, a common command-line tool for making web requests. It's designed to work with several AI coding assistants, including Claude Code, Codex, Pi, and OpenCode, as long as the assistant supports the skills system. The main audience is developers or technical team members who already use an AI coding assistant and want to reduce context-switching. For example, if you're working on a feature in Claude Code and want to notify your team in a Slack channel that you've finished a task, you can ask your assistant to post the update without leaving your workflow. The setup requires creating a Slack app through Slack's developer portal and installing it in your workspace, so there are a few steps involved before everything is up and running. One notable design choice is that it doesn't rely on MCP (Model Context Protocol), a more complex standard for connecting AI assistants to external tools. The README describes this as a simpler alternative, just a skill that uses straightforward web requests to Slack. This keeps the setup relatively lightweight, though the README doesn't go into much detail on limitations or advanced configuration. The project is MIT licensed, meaning it's free to use and modify.