Slack Tool

This tool fetches the text from a list of Slack channels. You will need to initialize the loader with your Slack API Token or have the SLACK_BOT_TOKEN environment variable set.

Usage

from llama_index.tools.slack import SlackToolSpec
from llama_index.core.agent.workflow import FunctionAgent
from llama_index.llms.openai import OpenAI

tool_spec = SlackToolSpec(slack_token="token")

agent = FunctionAgent(
    tools=tool_spec.to_tool_list(),
    llm=OpenAI(model="gpt-4.1"),
)

print(
    await agent.run(
        "What is the most recent message in the announcements channel?"
    )
)

load_data: Loads messages from a list of channels send_message: Sends a message to a channel fetch_channel: Fetches the list of channels

This loader is designed to be used as a way to load data as a Tool in a Agent.