Slack

block-kit

Use when a developer wants to build or validate Block Kit layouts for Slack messages, modals, or Home tabs: message layouts, modals/forms/dialogs, Home tab interfaces, interactive buttons or menus, or modifying existing Block Kit JSON. Also trigger on any Slack UI component (sect

create-slack-app

Use when a developer wants to create, scaffold, or bootstrap a new Slack app or agent from scratch with the Slack CLI. Covers prerequisites, authentication, choosing a workspace to install into, and creating a project from a Bolt (JS or Python) template locally. Trigger on "creat

slack-api

Use when a developer asks which Slack Web API method does something, needs a method's OAuth scopes or token type, wants to call or test a family.method endpoint (chat.postMessage, conversations.history, users.info, views.open), is handling cursor pagination (next_cursor) or rate

slack-cli

Use when a developer works with the Slack CLI (slack command) to create, run, or manage a Slack app from the terminal: logging in or authenticating (slack login), adding a team or switching workspaces, running locally (slack run), deploying, editing the app manifest, calling Web

slack-docs

Use when answering a conceptual or how-to question about Slack platform features, or when asked to look up, fetch, or summarize a docs.slack.dev page, including a pasted docs.slack.dev link. Covers finding and reading official Slack docs as clean markdown.

slack-messaging

Use when writing, drafting, scheduling, or improving a Slack message, announcement, or reply sent via the Slack MCP tools (slack_send_message, slack_send_message_draft, slack_schedule_message). Covers Slack markdown formatting, message structure, thread etiquette, reactions, and

slack-search

Use when locating messages, files, channels, or people across Slack, or gathering context before answering, with the search MCP tools (slack_search_public, slack_search_public_and_private, slack_search_channels, slack_search_users). Covers search modifiers (in:, from:, before:),

test-slack-app

Use when a developer wants to test, try out, smoke-test, verify, or confirm that a Slack app built with the Slack CLI (or a plain Bolt app) actually works, by running it in a developer sandbox or a Free Team, never a workspace with real users, with `slack run` and exercising its