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Custom Dedicated Slack Bots

Credal Agents can be set up as a custom Slack app which users can DM with, and custom slash commands etc can be set.

To do so:

  1. Visit: https://api.slack.com/apps
  2. Hit Create an App → From a Manifest → JSON → paste the blob below You’ll want to configure every field in the [$VALUE] format
  3. Go to the App Home settings ( https://api.slack.com/apps/$$$$APP_ID$$$$/app-home? ) and at the bottom, check “Allow users to send Slash commands and messages from the messages tab”
  4. To enable DMs for your agent go to: App Home → Messages Tab and enable: Allow users to send Slash commands and messages from the messages tab
  5. Once done, there’s one more step left, which is to provide the Credentials for this slackApp to Credal. If you are not an admin of your Credal organization or you don’t already know how to do this, reach out to support@credal.ai to get help.

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1{
2  "display_information": {
3  "name": "[$NAME]",
4  "description": "[$DESCRIPTION]",
5  "background_color": "#131415",
6  "long_description": "[$LONG_DESCRIPTION]"
7  },
8"features": {
9  "bot_user": {
10  "display_name": "[$NAME]",
11  "always_online": false
12  },
13"app_home": {
14  "home_tab_enabled": false,
15  "messages_tab_enabled": true,
16  "messages_tab_read_only_enabled": true
17  }
18},
19"oauth_config": {
20  "redirect_urls": [
21  "https://app.credal.ai/custom-auth/slack"
22  ],
23  "scopes": {
24    "bot": [
25    "app_mentions:read",
26    "channels:history",
27    "channels:join",
28    "channels:read",
29    "chat:write",
30    "im:history",
31    "im:write",
32    "reactions:read",
33    "reactions:write",
34    "users.profile:read",
35    "users:read",
36    "users:read.email",
37    "groups:history",
38    "groups:read"
39    ]
40}
41},
42"settings": {
43  "event_subscriptions": {
44  "request_url": "https://app.credal.ai/api/slack-events",
45  "bot_events": [
46  "app_mention",
47  "message.channels",
48  "message.groups",
49  "message.im"
50  ]
51},
52"interactivity": {
53  "is_enabled": true,
54  "request_url": "https://app.credal.ai/api/slack"
55  },
56  "org_deploy_enabled": false,
57  "socket_mode_enabled": false,
58  "token_rotation_enabled": false
59}
60}