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Slackbot

Searches your entire Slack history to find buried decisions and syncs team conversations directly into your project management tools.

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Why use Ceven?

  1. AI native Slackbot integration

    • Describe the outcome and Ceven picks the right Slackbot calls, fills the parameters, and checks the result.
    • Structured, agent friendly tool schemas so each call runs reliably instead of by guesswork.
    • Rich coverage for reading, writing, and querying your Slackbot data, across all 85 of its actions.

  2. Managed auth

    • Built in OAuth with automatic token refresh and rotation.
    • One place to manage, scope, and revoke Slackbot access.
    • Per user and per environment credentials instead of shared keys.

  3. Agent optimized design

    • Actions are tuned from real success and error rates so reliability climbs over time.
    • Full execution logs so you always know what ran in Slackbot, when, and on whose behalf.
    • The agent pauses and asks when Slackbot is unclear instead of plowing ahead.

  4. Enterprise grade security

    • Fine grained access so you control which agents and people can reach Slackbot.
    • Least privilege by default, read scopes first and only the writes a workflow needs.
    • A full audit trail of every Slackbot action to support review and sign off.

Supported tools

Every action Ceven's agents can run on Slackbot, and when to use it.

Send message
Use this to post a message to a channel, direct message, or private group to notify users of workflow updates.
Fetch conversation history
Pull a chronological list of messages from a specific channel or DM to analyze recent discussions.
Retrieve conversation replies
Pull all replies to a specific parent message to capture the full context of a threaded discussion.
Create channel
Start a new public or private channel for a specific project or temporary workstream.
Search messages
Query the workspace for specific keywords or phrases across all accessible channels and DMs.
Add reaction to message
Apply an emoji reaction to a message to signal status or acknowledge a request without typing.
Create reminder
Set a Slack reminder for a user or a channel using natural language or a specific timestamp.
Archive channel
Set a public or private channel to read only to clean up the sidebar for inactive projects.
Delete message
Remove a specific message from a chat. The agent must be the original poster to perform this.
Add emoji
Upload a custom emoji to the workspace to be used for internal tracking or team culture.
Fetch item reactions
Pull all emoji reactions from a specific message to gauge team sentiment or approval.
Delete file
Permanently remove a file from the workspace using its unique file ID.
Set snooze duration
Deprecated: turns on do not disturb mode for the current user, or changes its duration. use `set dnd duration` instead.
Add a custom emoji to a Slack team
Deprecated: adds a custom emoji to a slack workspace given a unique name and an image url. use `add emoji` instead.
Add an emoji alias
Adds an alias for an existing custom emoji in a slack enterprise grid organization.
Add a remote file
Adds a reference to an external file (e.g., google drive, dropbox) to slack for discovery and sharing, requiring a unique `external id` and an `external url` accessible by slack.
Add a star to an item
Stars a channel, file, file comment, or a specific message in slack.
Add call participants
Registers new participants added to a slack call.
Archive a Slack conversation
Archives a slack conversation by its id, rendering it read only and hidden while retaining history, ideal for cleaning up inactive channels; be aware that some channels (like #general or certain dms) cannot be archived and this may impact c
Archive a public or private channel
Archives a slack public or private channel, making it read only; the primary 'general' channel cannot be archived.
Post message to channel
Deprecated: posts a message to a slack channel, direct message, or private channel. use `send message` instead.
Close conversation channel
Closes a slack direct message (dm) or multi person direct message (mpdm) channel, removing it from the user's sidebar without deleting history; this action affects only the calling user's view.
Create a reminder
Creates a slack reminder with specified text and time; time accepts unix timestamps, seconds from now, or natural language (e.g., 'in 15 minutes', 'every thursday at 2pm').
Create a Slack user group
Creates a new user group (often referred to as a subteam) in a slack workspace.
Create a channel based conversation
Creates a new public or private slack channel with a unique name; the channel can be org wide, or team specific if `team id` is given (required if `org wide` is false or not provided).
Customize URL unfurl
Customizes url previews (unfurling) in a specific slack message using a url encoded json in `unfurls` to define custom content or remove existing previews.
Customize URL unfurling in messages
Deprecated: customizes url previews (unfurling) in a specific slack message. use `customize url unfurl` instead.
Delete file comment
Deletes a specific comment from a file in slack; this action is irreversible.
Delete a file by ID
Permanently deletes an existing file from a slack workspace using its unique file id; this action is irreversible and also removes any associated comments or shares.
Delete a public or private channel
Permanently and irreversibly deletes a specified public or private channel, including all its messages and files, within a slack enterprise grid organization.

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Frequently asked questions

Ceven accesses private channels and direct messages based on the permissions of the user who authorized the Slack connection. If the installing user is a member of a private channel or a participant in a DM, the agent can read those messages to provide context or search for information. If the user is not part of the conversation, the agent cannot see it. This ensures that sensitive data remains restricted to the intended audience. You can control these permissions at the Slack app level or by managing the tokens provided during the OAuth flow to limit the scope of what the agent can see across your workspace.
Ceven posts messages as a bot user. While the agent can read messages on behalf of the installing user to gain a wide view of the workspace, any write action such as sending a message, adding a reaction, or creating a channel is performed by the Ceven bot. This creates a clear audit trail so your team knows which updates were generated by an automation and which were written by a human. The bot will have its own profile picture and name in your Slack sidebar, making it easy to distinguish agent activity from organic team communication in any given channel.
Slack imposes strict tier gated rate limits on their API which Ceven manages automatically. For example, the chat.postMessage method is typically limited to one message per second per channel. If a workflow attempts to blast hundreds of messages at once, Slack will return a 429 too many requests error. Ceven handles this by implementing an internal queue with exponential backoff. This means the agent will pause and retry the request after the duration specified in the retry after header. You might notice a slight delay in high volume bursts, but this prevents your workspace from being throttled or flagged for abuse.
No. Ceven uses Slack as a real time data source. When an agent needs to summarize a thread or search for a decision, it fetches the data via the API and holds it in a short lived context window to generate the response. We do not maintain a permanent shadow database of your company chat history. Once the workflow execution is complete, the transient data is purged. This architecture ensures that your data residency remains within Slack and that you can revoke access at any time to immediately stop the agent from reading new or existing messages.
Yes. Ceven can create new user groups, enable disabled groups, or disable existing ones. This is particularly useful for onboarding workflows where a new hire needs to be added to a set of specific subteams based on their role. The agent can look up the user by email, find the correct user group ID, and ensure the person is added to the right communication loops without a manager having to do it manually. This keeps your workspace organized and ensures that mentions like @dev team reach the correct people as the organization grows.
No. Slack API restrictions prevent any bot or user from deleting a message they did not author unless they have specific administrator privileges within the workspace. Ceven can only delete messages that were posted by the bot itself. If you need to clean up a channel, the agent can archive the entire channel if it has the right permissions, but it cannot selectively scrub messages written by your employees. This is a core security feature of the Slack platform to prevent accidental data loss or unauthorized alteration of the official record of communication.
Ceven uses the search API to query across all conversations the authenticated user can access. When you ask the agent to find a specific detail from a DM, it performs a keyword search and retrieves the message timestamps and channel IDs. It then fetches the specific conversation history around those timestamps to provide a coherent answer. Because DMs are indexed by Slack, this process is very fast. The agent can even resolve a user by their email address first to narrow down which direct message thread it needs to scan for the most recent updates.
Yes. You can build workflows that trigger reminders based on events in other tools. For example, if a lead in Salesforce has not been contacted in three days, Ceven can create a Slack reminder for the account owner. You can specify the timing using natural language like in two hours or every Monday at 9am. The agent interacts with the reminders API to set these alerts, which will then fire as native Slack notifications. This ensures that critical follow ups do not slip through the cracks just because a task was buried in a CRM.

Alternatives to Slackbot

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