Slack Read

by ykdojo

Slack Read is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by ykdojo in safeclaw.

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Install Slack Read

Copy Slack Read into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/ykdojo/safeclaw/tree/main/setup/skills/slack ~/.claude/skills/slack

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/ykdojo/safeclaw.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: setup/skills/slack/SKILL.md in ykdojo/safeclaw
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/slack
Collection: One of 3 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 2032 skills

What Slack Read does

Slack Read opens Slack channels, DMs, histories, and search results in read-only mode. Use it when an agent needs to inspect workspace conversations without sending messages.

Slack Read is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. Slack Read comes from a repository tagged agentic-coding, agentic-coding-tool, ai, claude and claude-ai.

Documentation

README

From the original repository

Slack Read Tool

Use ~/tools/slack-read.js to read Slack data:

# List channels
node ~/tools/slack-read.js channels

# List DMs
node ~/tools/slack-read.js dms

# Read channel history (last 20 messages)
node ~/tools/slack-read.js history <channel_id>
node ~/tools/slack-read.js history <channel_id> 50  # last 50

# Search messages
node ~/tools/slack-read.js search "keyword"
node ~/tools/slack-read.js search "from:@user in:#channel"

# List users
node ~/tools/slack-read.js users

# Get channel info
node ~/tools/slack-read.js info <channel_id>

This is read-only - you cannot send messages or modify anything
Requires SLACK_TOKEN env var (run ./scripts/setup-slack.sh on host)

Frequently asked about Slack Read

What else does ykdojo publish alongside Slack Read?
Slack Read is one of 3 skills that DirSkills catalogs from ykdojo/safeclaw, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Google Docs Reader and Yt-Dlp. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Slack Read does, and is maintained by ykdojo in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the ykdojo/safeclaw page.
How does Slack Read compare to other Automation skills?
Slack Read ranks #1891 by stars among the 2032 Automation skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Autonomous Loops, Autonomous Agent Harness and Automation Audit Ops. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Slack Read against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.