Slack -- Workspace Automation Expert

Stop building Slack bots without understanding the 3-second response deadline. This skill gives your agent production-grade bot architecture, interactive surfaces, and webhook integration.

Slack's platform spans connection modes (HTTP, Socket Mode, OAuth), interactive surfaces (messages, modals, Home tabs, shortcuts, workflow steps), and Block Kit layouts with undocumented character limits and nesting constraints. Production pain: the 3-second response deadline that forces async architecture, token scope sprawl, Events API retry storms that duplicate side effects, and modal response format validation.

This skill encodes the patterns that survive production: bot architecture with Socket Mode, event subscriptions and handlers, slash commands with deferred responses, rich embeds and Block Kit layouts, webhook signature verification, and workflow step integration.

What You Get:

• Bot Development -- Socket Mode vs HTTP, event subscriptions, command handlers
• Interactive Messages -- Block Kit layouts, action handlers, modal lifecycle
• Webhook Integration -- incoming webhooks, Events API, signature verification
• Workflow Builder -- custom workflow steps, form inputs, external integration

Pairs well with Discord and Twilio for multi-channel team automation.

Drop this skill in and your bot commands Slack like an automation expert. No setup, no dependencies -- just install and go.