Slack MCP Server Configuration

Connect your AI assistant to Slack to send messages, manage channels, and interact with your team — all through natural language.

What You Can Do

• Send messages to channels
• List channels and users
• Read message history
• Create channels
• Invite users

Setup

You need a Slack Bot Token. Create one at api.slack.com with the chat:write and channels:read scopes.

Visit our Slack MCP page for the full config or use:

{"mcpServers":{"slack":{"command":"npx","args":["-y","@modelcontextprotocol/server-slack"],"env":{"SLACK_BOT_TOKEN":"xoxb-..."}}}}

Try It

“Send a message to #general saying the deployment is complete” or “List all my Slack channels.”

Streamlining Team Communication with Slack MCP

The Slack MCP server allows your local AI workspace to hook directly into your company's nervous system. It enables workflows such as drafting release notes locally and having the AI automatically broadcast them to the #engineering channel, or querying a specific channel's history to bring a new developer up to speed on a project's context.

When setting up the Slack API, pay careful attention to OAuth scopes. The Slack API is notoriously complex, and granting overly broad scopes (like global read access) poses a severe security risk. Scope the token to specific channels and specific actions (like chat:write for designated bot channels) to ensure that the AI cannot accidentally access private team conversations.