Slack Advanced

Complete Slack workspace management and automation

Communication✓ SafeIntermediatev2.1.5
Last verified:March 2026

About

Slack Advanced provides comprehensive Slack integration including message posting, thread management, user actions, and workflow automation. Agents can manage channels, moderate conversations, and integrate Slack into complex workflows.

Use Cases

  • Agent manages Slack channels and user access
  • Automated moderation and spam detection
  • Workflow notifications with interactive buttons
  • Team coordination and task management in Slack

What Slack Advanced can access

Moderate access

Skim the SKILL.md before installing, and check which credentials it asks for against what it actually claims to do.

  • Needs your credentials

    You must supply secrets for this skill to work. A skill with a valid key can do anything that key permits, so scope each one as narrowly as the provider allows and never reuse an admin key.

    Declares 2 required credentials: SLACK_BOT_TOKEN, SLACK_SIGNING_SECRET

  • Sends messages as you

    It can send messages from your account. Anything it sends will look like it came from you, so mistakes are visible to other people.

    This skill's own description refers to "slack"

  • Makes outbound network calls

    It contacts external services. Outbound calls are how data leaves your machine, so it is worth knowing where it connects.

    This skill's own description refers to "integration"

These permissions are inferred from this listing — the credentials it declares, any maintainer warning, and the operations its own description mentions. ClawVault has not audited this skill's source code. Treat it as a starting point for your own review, not a substitute for one.

Installing Slack Advanced on OpenClaw

An OpenClaw skill is a directory containing a SKILL.md file: Markdown with YAML frontmatter. At startup OpenClaw scans the eligible skill directories and injects a compressed description of each skill into its system prompt, so the agent knows what it can do and invokes a skill when a request matches.

  1. 1

    Find the skill in the registry

    openclaw skills search slack-advanced

    ClawHub is the public registry for OpenClaw skills. Searching first gives you the exact owner-qualified reference, which is what the install command needs. Omit the query to browse the default feed.

  2. 2

    Check what it does and who published it

    openclaw skills verify @<owner>/slack-advanced

    verify prints ClawHub's verification envelope, including its scan decision and, when available, a commit-pinned source URL. Add --card to read the generated Skill Card instead. Substitute the owner handle returned by the search above.

  3. 3

    Install it

    openclaw skills install @<owner>/slack-advanced

    Native ClawHub skills use an @owner/slug reference. By default this installs into the active workspace skills/ directory; add --global to install into the shared managed directory instead. You can also install from Git with git:owner/repo, or from a local folder with ./path.

  4. 4

    Confirm the agent can see it

    openclaw skills check

    check reports which ready skills are actually visible to the agent's prompt surface, which is the quickest way to catch a skill that installed but did not load.

Commands follow the official OpenClaw documentation. Placeholders such as <owner> are filled in by the search step, because registry references are publisher-scoped.

Requirements

API Keys & Credentials

SLACK_BOT_TOKENSLACK_SIGNING_SECRET

Version & Updates

Current Version
2.1.5
Last Updated
March 26, 2026
What's New

Added workflow automation, improved permissions, better error handling

Safety & verification

Listed as safe
No known issues reported for this skill in the OpenClaw ecosystem.

How OpenClaw screens skills

Since February 2026 ClawHub screens submitted skills with VirusTotal: each bundle is hashed and looked up, new bundles are scanned with Code Insight, and results drive an approve, warn or block decision with daily re-scanning. This materially reduces supply-chain risk but does not eliminate it, and independent research has found that different scanners frequently disagree about the same skill. Read the SKILL.md of anything you install, especially if it requests shell access or credentials.

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