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Slack Notifications Setup

Sets up Slack alerts for an agent colony by driving your browser to create the Sentinel app and store its tokens.

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Repository
aden-hive/hive
Stars
11,132
Licence
Apache-2.0
Files
1 file

What it does

This skill teaches an AI agent to connect Slack to the Hive agent system so a stalled task can ping you on Slack and you can reply from Slack to keep it going. It walks the agent through creating (or reusing) a Slack app called Hive Sentinel in your own browser, copying its two access tokens, and storing them with the sentinel_setup tool, then creating a channel through the Slack API and turning notifications on. You are not asked to paste tokens yourself unless you prefer it.

Great for

  • Developers running Hive colonies who want Slack alerts when a job gets stuck
  • Teams that want to reply to a running agent from a Slack channel
  • Users who already have Slack admin access to the workspace they want to alert in

Skip it if

  • People who do not have permission to create or install Slack apps in their workspace, since the setup will fail or stall
  • Anyone uncomfortable with an agent operating their logged-in browser and handling Slack bot and app tokens, which grant real access to the workspace
  • Users who only want a one-off Slack message and not a persistent alerting channel

Try asking

  • “Set up Slack notifications so I get pinged when a colony stalls”
  • “Connect Slack for alerts to my Hive workspace”
  • “Set up Sentinel on Slack and let me reply from the channel”
Step-by-step guide: how to use Slack Notifications SetupInstall, first run, examples, tips and FAQs

Install in 3 steps

  1. 1

    Download the skill

    The ZIP contains the 1 original files, the Apache-2.0 licence and an attribution note.

    slack-notifications-setup.zip
  2. 2

    Add it to your agent

    Claude Code (all projects)

    mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && unzip slack-notifications-setup.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/

    Claude Code / Agent SDK (this project only)

    mkdir -p .claude/skills && unzip slack-notifications-setup.zip -d .claude/skills/

    Claude apps (web/desktop): Settings → Capabilities → Skills → Upload skill, and choose the ZIP.

  3. 3

    Ask for the task

    No special command needed — the agent reads the skill's description and loads it when your request matches. Try one of the prompts above.

Get better results

  • Check the Slack workspace you are signed into before starting, since the agent will create the app there.
  • Let the agent reuse an existing Hive Sentinel app rather than creating duplicates.
  • Review the manifest scopes (including channels:manage) and the tokens it stores, and revoke the app in Slack if you stop using Sentinel.

What's inside

  • SKILL.md

Redistributed unmodified from aden-hive/hive under the Apache-2.0 licence. The assessment was drafted with AI from the skill's files on 2026-10-29. Skills can instruct your agent to run code — read SKILL.md and any scripts before installing.