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- Feb 28, 2026
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Slack Feature Drop: Better Connections for Every Kind of Work
Slack unveils a February connections boost with GA for the MCP server and Real-Time Search API, enabling AI tools to act in Slack, message drafting in Claude, instant workspace insights, and smarter huddles. Includes admin improvements, custom connectors, and a Slackbot emoji pack for richer collaboration.
Work is all about connection. Whether it’s connecting an AI agent to your most important data, connecting a new teammate to their first project, or simply connecting with a colleague in a huddle, these relationships are what keep momentum alive.
This February, we’re focused on making those bonds stronger and smarter. We’re introducing powerful new ways for your tools to talk to each other and for your teams to stay in sync. This ensures that no matter how complex the task, you always feel connected to the information and people you need most.
The Ultimate Power Couple: MCP and Real-Time Search
The most meaningful connection in your enterprise is the one between your AI and your data. This month, we’re making that relationship official with two major technical milestones that change how AI interacts with Slack.
Build Without Boundaries with the MCP Server
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) server is now generally available. This open standard allows developers to securely connect Slack’s tools, like search, messaging, and canvas creation, directly with AI assistants like Claude, ChatGPT, Vercel, Notion, Gemini and more. It means your AI doesn’t just know things. It can actually do things in Slack, like drafting, formatting, and previewing messages right within your Claude conversation.
Instant Insights with Real-Time Search API
Speed matters when you’re looking for answers. The Real Time Search API is now generally available, giving third-party applications the ability to search your workspace data the moment it’s created. There is no more waiting for indexes to catch up, just instant and flexible queries that keep your external apps perfectly in tune with the latest conversations.
Preview Slack Messages in Claude
The Slack MCP server now features an interactive message composer that lets you draft, format, and preview Slack messages right in Claude. Search conversations for context, generate message drafts with AI assistance, edit with a live preview, and review before sending, all without leaving your Claude conversation.
AI That Deepens Your Understanding
AI shouldn’t just be a tool. It should be the teammate that’s always in the loop. These updates bring more “IQ” to your daily interactions, helping you find meaning in the noise.
- Huddles Join Preview: Eliminate those “Can you hear me?” moments. You can now preview your video and check your audio settings before entering a huddle, so you can join every conversation with total confidence.
- Semantic Search for Pro Plans: We’ve extended Semantic Search to Pro customers. Now, Slack understands the intent behind your search, not just the keywords. Whether you’re searching in another language or using a short two-word query, you’ll find “Related Matches” that understand the context of what you’re looking for.
- Search Answer Follow-ups: Don’t start from scratch when you have more questions. After getting an AI-generated search answer, you can now click a new action button to continue the conversation with Slackbot. You can dive deeper into the details without losing your place.
Smoother Flows, From Day One to Day 1,000
A great connection is one that feels effortless. We’ve refined the Slack interface and admin experience to ensure work feels lighter and more intuitive.
A More Welcoming Workspace
- Sidebar Onboarding Tasks: Welcome new members with a guided “to-do” list right in their sidebar. From uploading a profile picture to sending a first DM, these tasks and helpful reminder emails help everyone get up to speed quickly.
- Visual Hierarchy Improvements: Our sidebar got a makeover for better clarity. With smarter channel indentation, intelligent breakpoints for narrow layouts, and consistent padding, the most important things always cut through the noise.
Admin Tools That Just Click
- Custom Connectors for Enterprise Search: Unlock your organization’s full knowledge base by building custom connectors that integrate internal wikis and proprietary tools directly into Enterprise Search.
- Self-Service Email Updates: Pre-migration bulk email updates are now available directly in the admin dashboard. Org Owners can review and configure these updates before a migration is even scheduled, making the process transparent and error-free.
- Enhanced Huddle Connectivity: Admins can now configure UDP port 3478, aligning Slack with standard video conferencing solutions to improve connection reliability across enterprise firewalls.
A Little Something Extra: The Slackbot Emoji Pack
Because every great connection deserves a little personality, you can now install the official Slackbot emoji pack. Bring the charm of your favorite AI assistant to your messages, from heart-eyes to grins, and express yourself with a touch of Slackbot style.
Ready to strengthen your team’s connections?
Check out our Innovations webpage for previous releases.
Please note that some features may not be immediately available in your workspace depending on the rollout timeline, your Slack licensing plan, or additional license requirements. To learn more about feature availability, check with your admin on the licensing plans for your workspace.Ready to learn more? Contact us.
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Slack 4.48.95
Bug Fixes
- We tidied the shelves, cleaned the windows and ran a white-gloved finger over every flat surface. Just a little routine maintenance to ensure that everything is shipshape. Full steam ahead!
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- Feb 18, 2026
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Slack 4.48.94
Security Guidance
- This release includes minor security improvements. Updating is beneficial.
- Feb 17, 2026
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Slack Securely Powers Your Third-Party Agents With Your Business Context
Slack GA of Real-Time Search API and MCP server unlocks context-aware agent workflows directly in Slack. A booming partner ecosystem, 25x growth in RTS queries and MCP calls, and a growing Marketplace with Claude, Manus, Guru and more empower teams to search, act, and automate in Slack.
The Slack MCP server and Real-Time Search API are now generally available.
By the team at Slack
February 17th, 2026Imagine a world where every task, from coding to researching to creating, is supported by an agent that understands your business and is right there with you in your workspace. In Slack, this vision is a reality. All your context-aware agents are in one place, making collaboration simpler and more productive. No more juggling tabs or apps, just seamless human-agent teamwork.
At Dreamforce, we unveiled the reimagined Slack platform that allows partners and developers to build powerful, context-aware AI apps and agents in Slack, creating a context-rich hub for human-agent collaboration.
Today, we’re thrilled to announce the general availability of Slack’s Real-Time Search (RTS) API and Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. With this release, every customer and partner can ground their AI agents securely in the context of Slack’s living, real-time conversational data — a goldmine of project conversations, team knowledge, business decisions, and more — while strictly upholding enterprise-grade security and data permissions.
Since the limited release of the RTS API and MCP server in October, the reaction in the market has been nothing short of remarkable.
- Ecosystem momentum: More than 50 industry-leading partners, including Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Perplexity, and more, are already building context-aware agents on the platform.
- Increased adoption: We’ve seen growth in agent activity on Slack, highlighted by a 25x increase in both RTS queries and MCP tool calls, establishing Slack as the execution layer for customers’ enterprise AI agents.
Whether you’re a developer using tools like Claude Code or Cursor, or a marketer conducting research with ChatGPT or Perplexity, your agents now have the context they need to help you work faster, eliminate repetitive tasks, and enhance your productivity and creativity.
“We continue to deepen our integration with Slack through our MCP Apps extension and by including the power of Claude Code. Customers are increasingly seeing the value of this bi-directional integration, and usage is accelerating as a result: faster answers grounded in real team context, improved workflows, and insights delivered right in Slack, where work is happening. This integration unlocks trusted, actionable intelligence that aligns with how your team really operates.”
The power of conversational context
The success of your enterprise’s AI and agents depends on having the right business context and the ability to take effective action within your workflow. With the RTS API and MCP server, you get secure and flexible access to your Slack data, at all times. This enables context-aware, user-specific conversations that make your AI more relevant, accurate, and powerful. You can use these agents directly within Slack or through a dedicated agent interface, but no matter where you use your agent, you can securely access your data with built-in security, permissions, and retrieval. It’s all on your terms.
- Slack MCP server streamlines how large language models and AI agents access Slack data, providing conversational context to ground agent responses and actions. It serves as a unified, bidirectional communication layer that respects user permissions, reducing the need for complex, service-specific integrations.
- The RTS API gives apps secure, query-based access to Slack data, so they can retrieve only the information they need, without storing customer data on external servers. When used as context for agents, this approach helps produce responses that are more relevant, accurate, and grounded in real work.
“We’ve tested Slack’s MCP with Trivago Copilot, our internal AI solution, and the early feedback has been really positive. The ability to pull live Slack context directly into our AI workflows allows our teams to search company knowledge more effectively and enables our agents to post updates to Slack without switching contexts. This kind of integration makes AI tools feel less like a separate thing and more like an integral part of our workflow.”
— Matthias Ramge, Team Lead, Internal Product Management, Trivago
A growing marketplace of context-aware agents
This launch also introduces a new wave of partner agents to the Slack Marketplace, helping teams work more efficiently across various departments and use cases. Whether you need agents for broad tasks like coding, writing, and research or for specific departments such as engineering, legal, marketing, and more, you can find the best agents to meet your needs on Slack.
Here are some of the latest agents built with the RTS API and MCP server and now available on Slack:
Agentic search
Agentic search uses agents to retrieve and reason over Slack conversations, documents, and external sources, tailoring results to the user, the moment, and the channel, all while adhering to Slack’s permission model. These are search agents that know your Slack context that you can launch directly within Slack for efficient team collaboration.
- Claude is an AI assistant from Anthropic that can seamlessly collaborate with your team through direct messages, an AI assistant panel, or @mentions in threads. It’s a versatile tool that can perform web searches, connect to data sources, and analyze documents. By integrating Slack data with the Claude app, you can search across workspace channels, messages, and files, creating a seamless AI experience that works wherever your team needs it.
- Guru provides a trusted knowledge layer to power context-aware agents in Slack. By combining live Slack context with continuously verified company knowledge, Guru ensures that agents and teams can rely on accurate, permission-aware answers.
- Manus is an autonomous general AI agent designed to complete tasks and deliver results. With the Slack Connector on Manus, it can read your channels, extract key insights, turn discussions into action items, and share results back with your team — all through simple natural-language commands. It’s like having a personal assistant who knows your team inside and out.
- Perplexity is an agent that excels at analyzing and summarizing large volumes of text and documents. It provides quick insights and summaries, making it easier for your team to manage and understand complex information, all within the Slack environment.
“Slack’s Real-Time Search and MCP capabilities make it easier for teams to securely surface and apply the insights that live inside Slack. By building on this foundation, we aim to help agents transform real-time, permissioned context into practical outputs that support everyday work — while respecting data ownership, security, and organizational boundaries.”
— Tao Zhang, Co-founder and CPO, Manus
Productivity and task management agents
Your favorite productivity agents help you stay productive with tasks such as scheduling appointments, setting reminders, automatically creating and updating information, and managing your day-to-day activity.
- Ari is an AI teammate that helps leaders and teams perform their best by consolidating communications into clear actions and coaching moments. With Slack’s Real-Time Search API, Ari can keep users organized and instantly recall and synthesize context from every conversation, enabling it to answer “What happened?” and “How should I approach this?” with context and empathy in the flow of work.
- Read AI for Slack allows users to post all meeting notes directly to Slack, bringing the experience of Read AI right into their daily flow. Now with Real-Time Search, users can also chat with all of their connected data, enabling instant, compliant searching across all meetings and connected platforms.
- Tembo is a background engineering agent for Slack. It handles work from conversations, issues, and alerts, as well as scheduled and event-based automations, producing reviewable pull requests or structured updates in Slack.
- Spotter is a business intelligence agent from ThoughtSpot that uses Slack’s MCP server to securely connect real-time enterprise data with Slack conversations, turning everyday discussions into actionable insights. Teams can ask Spotter questions in natural language and analyze data like supply-chain inventory levels, product performance, and much more — and then share analysis results directly in Slack channels so decisions are always based on the latest insights.
Workflow automation and content agents
Work with agents to automatically create, manage, and optimize workflows and content right in Slack. By using real-time context and what the business needs, agents make team operations smoother, automate support, and produce customized content in seconds.
- Alysio GTM AI Workspace is now connected to the Slack MCP server, where teams can ask questions, generate real-time insights, and take action in their GTM tools, all without leaving Slack. Alysio also enables analysis and action across Slack channels, threads, and messages, turning Slack into a real-time interface for revenue intelligence.
- Credal AI enables building, deploying, and managing secure AI agents that can synthesize enterprise data, generate content, and take actions. Slack’s RTS API allows these agents to quickly and safely search the enterprise’s conversation history, gathering the most accurate and relevant context for actioning user requests.
- Moveworks is an AI assistant platform for your entire workforce to search and act across business systems, unifying information and content from many tools into a single enterprise search experience. By leveraging Slack’s RTS API for both keyword and semantic retrieval, Moveworks enhances search quality by pulling relevant channels, messages, and files from Slack to deliver more accurate, context-aware results.
- WRITER is an enterprise AI agent platform built to execute and scale on-brand, compliant work across marketing and sales, letting teams delegate complex workflows to agents that run securely across their data and tools. The Slack MCP server allows WRITER to search across messages, files, users, and channels, as well as read recent channel activity and full thread conversations. It also allows WRITER to take actions in Slack, such as sending messages and generating new Slack canvases with structured content to share and collaborate on, enabling WRITER to interpret, analyze, and act on Slack activity within WRITER.
Function and use-case-specific agents
Use best-in-class, specialized agents designed for specific organizational functions, like writing, coding, legal, and HR, to create high-quality content, ship code, and get your work done faster than ever. By bringing these experts into your Slack workspace, your teams can collaborate effectively in their flow of work, leading to better overall performance.
- Claude Code is an AI-powered coding agent that helps developers understand, write, and refactor codebases through natural language interactions grounded in their real projects. Customers can ask code questions, review changes, and coordinate fixes directly in team channels, turning everyday conversations into faster, more collaborative development workflows.
- Cursor for Slack lets teams delegate tasks to coding agents directly inside Slack to quickly turn an idea into a pull request. Connecting to Slack data allows Cursor to search and leverage all the context across workspace channels, messages, and files to build and ship code faster.
- Learn Place Assistant is an AI-powered learning companion that helps users master topics through personalized study paths, tailored explanations, and progress tracking, making learning more efficient and adaptable to individual goals. With Slack’s RTS API, teams can access customized learning support and topic guidance directly within their conversations and workflows, increasing knowledge sharing and skill development without leaving the flow of work.
- Nalvin helps modern product teams supercharge work across discovery, planning, and delivery. With Slack’s RTS API, Nalvin can now understand conversations as they happen and automatically connect them to tickets, docs, and customer insights — ensuring that critical product context never gets lost.
- Wordsmith’s Slack integration brings AI-powered legal knowledge and document support directly into your team’s workspace. Employees can query guidance on policies, create new contracts, and review legal documents, instantly reducing legal bottlenecks and providing fast, consistent, context-aware answers. It’s like having a legal expert available 24/7.
- The Workleap AI app brings the Workleap people management platform into Slack, giving leaders instant access to the latest conversations, files, and decisions. It unifies engagement and performance data with real work context, enriching feedback, grounding goals and reviews, and connecting insights across tools like Jira and Notion to support better people decisions, faster.
“A huge amount of engineering context lives in Slack — from design decisions to incident discussions to why tradeoffs were made. You can ask Cursor to use that context to implement a new feature, fix a bug, or refactor code directly in Slack. The agent comes back with a PR you can review and ship in minutes. We’re excited to see what teams build with Cursor for Slack!”
— Josh Ma, Engineering Lead, Cursor
The future of work is collaborative
The true power of AI is unlocked when your agents operate where teams already work. With the general launch of Slack’s RTS API and MCP server, you can now integrate powerful, context-aware AI agents directly into your Slack workspace. These agents enhance your productivity and creativity by using real-time conversational data, making every task — from coding to content creation — more efficient.
Ready to start your agentic journey? Learn more about the Slack platform, visit the Slack Marketplace to explore the latest AI apps and agents, or learn how to build your own context-aware agents at Slack.dev.
Original source Report a problem - Feb 13, 2026
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Slack 4.48.92
Bug Fixes
- Hard work is happening this week, but nothing we can easily describe. It’s like a duck swimming on a pond. Under the water, the duck is paddling furiously, but on top all that can be seen is the gentle gliding of a bird on water. This week, Slack is the duck.
- Feb 1, 2026
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February 2026
New Slack features include built‑in DLP rules to scan secrets, easy sharing of Slackbot prompts, and an AI assistants bridge via the Slack MCP server for safe data access. Also includes a new Slackbot emoji pack and enterprise org‑level user groups for streamlined admin control.
Scan for secrets with Slack DLP
Keep your organization’s confidential information like API tokens, webhooks, and access keys secure with new built-in DLP rules.
Share Slackbot prompts
Forward helpful Slackbot prompts to your team in channels or direct messages so anyone can use them, or copy links to share prompts in a canvas.
Work with AI assistants using the Slack MCP server
The Slack MCP server lets AI assistants (like Claude and Cursor) securely access your Slack data, helping you search conversations, send messages, and create canvases with natural language prompts.
A built-in set of Slackbot emoji
Add our newest emoji pack to festoon your messages with Slackbots.
Create org-level user groups on Enterprise plans
With org-level user groups, Org Owners and Admins can now manage permissions and channel memberships across workspaces without modifying IDP groups.
Other news
- Press Cmd (Mac) or Ctrl (Windows/Linux) and click on the Files tab in your sidebar on desktop to open it in a new window.
- Workspace Owners and Admins can now create and edit user groups right from the admin dashboard.
- You can now select text without copying the whole message on the Slack iOS app.
- If you ask Slackbot to update a canvas, you’ll have the option to approve or deny the changes before new content is added.
- Jan 30, 2026
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Slack Feature Drop: New Slack Features to Cut Through the Chill
Slack unveils a major AI powered update centered on the all new Slackbot, smarter agent experiences, and stronger Salesforce and Canvas integrations. New Sunroof agent UI, automated message triggers, alt text reminders, and built in Guardrails boost collaboration while preserving security.
Slackbot updates
This winter’s updates are about smoothing the rough edges of real work. From more intuitive workflows and automations to richer canvas collaboration, analytics, accessibility, and deeper Salesforce connections, these features help teams spend less time managing work and more time moving it forward. An upgraded Slackbot adds contextual intelligence, all backed by built-in AI guardrails that keep security and trust front and center.
Slackbot got a style upgrade and a serious IQ boost.
This month, we introduced the all-new Slackbot, graduating it from your friendly neighborhood notification helper to your deeply personal AI agent for work. Built natively into Slack with absolutely no setup required, Slackbot is the agent who’s always up to speed because it lives right where your work happens. It’s designed to handle the heavy lifting so you can focus on the work you were actually hired to do.
So, what does that actually look like in your day-to-day? Slackbot transforms the chaos of scattered data, messages and files into clear action by:
- Summarizing instantly: Skip the scroll and get straight to the point. Slackbot can recap frantic project channels, summarize long threads, or distill key takeaways from a huddle you missed.
- Surfacing files, conversations, and the full backstory: Slackbot finds the specific files and conversations you need, but it goes further by explaining the context around them. It connects the dots on who made a decision, what transpired in the thread, and what that information actually means for your work right now.
- Drafting content in your voice: End the “blank page” paralysis. Whether you need a blog outline, a difficult email, or a project brief, Slackbot spins up a polished first draft based on your specific tone and context.
- Analyzing files deeply: Stop squinting at PDFs at 5 PM. You can ask Slackbot to extract specific data from a 40-page deck, identify trends in a spreadsheet, or cross-reference a report against a conversation.
What sets Slackbot apart from the crowded field of generic chatbots is simple: context. While most AI tools are like interns who haven’t read the brief and force you to spend half your time explaining the backstory, Slackbot is the teammate who was in the meeting with you. Because it understands your projects, the people you work with, and how decisions actually get made, it gives you answers you can trust, all while adhering to enterprise-grade security that respects your existing permissions. This matters because it lets you stop “hunting” for information and start acting on it, keeping your work moving forward without ever breaking your flow. Available to all Business+V2 customers, Enterprise+ (admins may need to turn on / opt-in the feature for their workspace), Grid and Select customers (with AI add-on).
Slackbot ignites work, Slack handles the rest.
Slackbot helps you decide what to do next, Slack takes care of everything that follows. Once you say what needs to happen, Slack turns that direction into action across agents, workflows, documents, and systems that already power your day. Agents are easier to discover and manage, workflows trigger themselves from natural moments in conversation, and setup tasks fade into the background. With clearer visuals, richer previews, and live Salesforce data always in context, these updates are designed to reduce friction at every step, so work moves forward with fewer clicks, less setup, and far fewer “I’ll get to that later” moments.
New Agent Sunroof Experience: The Agent Sunroof has been completely redesigned to make discovering and managing AI agents in Slack easier than ever. The new experience features a beautiful, intuitive list interface that lets you add and remove agents directly from the top toolbar, no more hunting through settings. When you’re just getting started, a helpful empty state guides you to add your first agent with a single click. The streamlined design includes larger, more visually appealing list items, improved search functionality to help you discover the right agents for your needs, and seamless integration with the unified DM experience. Available for all plans with full rollout through February.
Work Objects Upgrades: The latest updates streamline document viewing and interaction: file previews now open full-width with the sidebar hidden for distraction-free focus, edit mode is more accessible with clearer field indicators, and workflow-posted messages now support app link unfurls. Navigation improvements include a sticky tab bar in the flex pane, the ability to forward Work Object attachments from private channels, and quick actions to open conversations directly from unfurl cards. Multiple external links automatically display as compact unfurls, visual enhancements improve card readability, and new toast confirmations and educational coach marks help guide users through features like copying links and refreshing file previews. Available on all plans, license access via third party may apply.
Automated Message Posts: This trigger allows users to create workflows that automatically trigger when specific keywords are posted in public channels. Hero use cases include filtering noise in high-velocity monitoring channels, watching for specific keywords like “sev” or “incident,” and following conversations about topics you care about in specific channels. Key features include:
- Create up to 5 keyword conditions per workflow
- Mix and match included and excluded keywords
- Choose up to 20 public channels to observe
- Set up additional filters for threads, automations, and Agentforce Agents
- Include message text in the workflow steps that follow
- (Available for Pro, Business+ and Enterprise+ customers)
Alt Text Reminders for Accessibility: Alt text (image descriptions) helps people with visual disabilities fully participate in conversations that include images. Slack has long supported alt text, but it was easy to miss during image uploads. This update makes alt text simpler and more visible, and introduces optional reminders that users can enable for themselves or admins can turn on for entire workspaces. When enabled, reminders appear as a send-time prompt on web and desktop, and as a badge on image thumbnails on iOS and Android, helping teams build more accessible habits by default. Available for all plans.
Salesforce Channel Automations: New features enhance Salesforce Channel automation in Slack through two key improvements: First, a new “When a Salesforce channel is created” trigger that automatically fires workflows when channels are created manually (via the LEX component or Slack list views), enabling automated user additions and channel configuration. Second, the ability to add users from child objects to channels, allowing you to pull in team members from related Salesforce records that don’t have direct relationships to the primary record—ensuring more complete collaboration. Both features are available to Sales Admins and work within the existing workflow builder framework. Any customers with our new Seamless Auth connection between Salesforce and Slack can access.
Salesforce Data Fields in Canvas: Data Fields are bi-directionally-synced fields that enable you to bring Salesforce data into any section of a canvas and ensure that the source of truth is always up to date. Think of data fields as a new powerful building block for Slack to Salesforce use cases like Account Plans, Opportunity Close Plans, Exec Briefings, Account Research, and more. Available now for most Business+ and Enterprise+ customers (full rollout by end of Feb).
Canvas Analytics: Admins now get a fuller view of how teams use canvases. In addition to views, edits, comments, and creates, analytics now include canvas shares and reactions, plus a new Overall usage tab that brings all interactions together in one place. This gives admins a more complete picture of engagement and how teams truly collaborate around canvas content. This is available for Enterprise+ and Grid plans.
Built-in Guardrails for AI at Work.
With this much work happening behind the scenes, trust and control matter more than ever. At Slack, we believe AI should make work easier and more productive without ever compromising trust. That’s why our AI features are built directly into Slack with clear controls and strong safeguards. Admins decide whether AI is enabled, and every AI interaction is protected by Slack AI Guardrails, our multi-layered safety framework designed to keep AI reliable, appropriate, and secure in real work environments.
- AI features are optional and controlled by workspace admins
- Slack AI Guardrails help reduce hallucinations and unsafe outputs
- Real-time content filtering helps block harmful or inappropriate responses
- Protections are designed specifically for workplace use cases
We also design AI in Slack with privacy and data protection at the core. Customer data, messages, files, and conversations are never used to train large language models. AI only works with information a user already has permission to access, and those permissions are always enforced. Our models run within Slack’s secure cloud environment, ensuring customer data never leaves our trust boundary or becomes accessible to third-party providers.
- Customer data is never used to train LLMs
- AI respects existing Slack permissions and access controls
- AI only surfaces information users are already allowed to see
- Models operate within Slack’s secure infrastructure, not external systems
In Slack, we also recently made the new AI Exclusions feature to add another layer of control that restricts access to certain channels, canvases and lists.
We’re excited to roll out a new capability that allows Admins and Owners (org and workspace) to mark specific channels, as well as canvases and lists, as excluded from Slack AI usage. When one of these is marked as excluded, its contents will not be used for AI summarization, search, recommendations, or data context in any AI-powered Slack features. Specifically, AI Answers and Slackbot AI. This is only configurable by our Enterprise+ customers. This ensures teams can better control what data contributes to AI outputs in order to improve trust in Slack’s AI products so that enterprises can enable them for their organization. The changes include:
- Channel-Level Exclusion Controls
- Canvas & List-Level Exclusion Controls (Desktop Only)
- Org Dashboard Updates on Org Channel Management
These updates remove friction across Slack, from a smarter Slackbot to smoother workflows and built-in AI guardrails. Turn them on and see how much easier it is to move work forward, right where work happens.
Check out our Innovations webpage for previous releases.
Please note that some features may not be immediately available in your workspace depending on the rollout timeline, your Slack licensing plan, or additional license requirements. To learn more about feature availability, check with your admin on the licensing plans for your workspace.
Ready to learn more? Contact us.
Original source Report a problem - Jan 13, 2026
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Meet the All-New Slackbot: Your Personal AI Agent for Work
Slack unveils all-new Slackbot, a personal AI agent built into Slack that uses your context for instant, role-specific productivity. With native AI and enterprise search, it delivers tailored insights while keeping data secure. Available now for Business+ and Enterprise+ with phased rollout.
AI that understands your work, adapts to your style, and helps every employee move faster.
By the team at Slack
January 13th, 2026TABLE OF CONTENTS
Your personal AI agent for work, built into Slack
See Slackbot in action
Slackbot + enterprise search + native AI: a new level of productivity
Trust and security are built-in, not bolted on
This is just the beginning
Ready to meet the all-new Slackbot?
Key takeaways
- Slackbot is available now: As a personal AI agent, Slackbot is built into Slack and learns how you work, helping you stay organized, prepared, and focused.
- Context-aware intelligence: Slackbot uses the messages, files, channels, and tools you already have access to in order to deliver answers, insights, and content tailored to your role.
- Personalized productivity for every team: Slackbot unlocks role-specific workflows that help sales, marketing, engineering, service, and operations teams move work forward.
- Built on trust: Enterprise-grade security, transparent permissions, and strict data boundaries ensure that Slackbot uses only what you can already see.
We’ve all been there: You start your day with unread messages scattered across channels. You know a decision was made, but where? Was it in the #project-alpha channel? A huddle? Maybe it’s buried in a slide deck from last Tuesday.
The “work of work” — searching, summarizing, and catching up — takes more time than the jobs we were hired to do. You need a trusted, always-on colleague that answers questions instantly and acts on your behalf.
Today, we’re announcing that we’ve rebuilt Slackbot from scratch to do just that. What used to be your friendly neighborhood notification-helper is graduating to become your personal, context-aware AI agent for work.
The all-new Slackbot understands your work, anticipates your needs, and acts as the intelligent partner you’ve always wanted. Starting now, you can stop hunting for information and start focusing on the work that matters.
Let’s dig into how it works and why it’s different from all the copilots and assistants on the market today.
Your personal AI agent for work, built into Slack
Slackbot is your deeply personal AI agent for work, built natively into Slack for every employee, with no setup or training required. What makes it different is simple: Slackbot starts with your context. And that context is what’s missing from the other tools out there.
Most AI tools are like interns who haven’t read the brief yet, and you have to spend half your time catching them up. Slackbot is the teammate that was in the meeting with you. When AI doesn’t understand your conversations, priorities, or how your business runs, it just creates more work.
Context is the key
Because it lives inside Slack, Slackbot understands how you and your team speak and how decisions actually get made. It’s informed by your messages and files, but it sees only what you can see, always respecting the permissions already in place. This context makes Slackbot more accurate and helpful, so you can move from “hunting” to “doing” instantly.
Slackbot isn’t just another AI assistant. It’s an intelligent, active partner that brings clarity and momentum to the work you’re already doing in Slack.
“AI has raised expectations in our personal lives, but work is fundamentally different. To truly be useful at work, AI needs context: an understanding of your conversations, your tools, and how decisions actually get made. With Slackbot, we’ve built an intuitive, deeply native experience inside Slack that people can trust to help them move work forward, not just answer questions.”
How it works
There is nothing to install, nothing to learn, and nothing new to manage. You simply start a conversation with Slackbot, and it understands what you’re asking and the context behind it.
It uses your actual work to create personalized briefings, clarify complex conversations, draft content in your voice, and surface insights you might otherwise miss. It can prepare you for meetings, help you navigate cross-functional complexity, and transform scattered inputs into clear, actionable outputs — all while staying grounded in the information you already have access to.
When you ask it a question, Slackbot evaluates the people you collaborate with, the channels you’re active in, the files and canvases you share, and the systems connected through enterprise search. It draws from signals like recent conversations, calendars, and shared documents and project decisions. Slackbot combines all of this into a complete understanding of your projects and team and then uses AI to synthesize insights, generate content, and structure information in ways that match your style and workflows.
The result is an experience that feels intuitive and personal: an AI agent that understands your role, your preferences, your projects, and the flow of work across your organization.
See Slackbot in action
Slackbot is a hands-on partner that helps you transform information into action. Here are three core capabilities that show how Slackbot accelerates everyday work.
- Skip the catch-up, get to the decision
Slackbot can instantly synthesize information from across your channels, calls, canvases, and connected tools to provide clear, contextual insights. Whether you’re prepping for a customer call, aligning stakeholders before a big decision, or making sense of a fast-moving project, Slackbot surfaces the key themes, risks, opportunities, and next steps you need. By turning scattered messages and documents into meaningful intelligence, Slackbot helps you focus on what matters instead of having to piece together the story yourself.
“Slackbot is saving me, at bare minimum, 90 minutes a day. I ask it to create a canvas for a meeting tomorrow, and in 17 seconds it’s better than I could ever do. It tells me next steps, saving time and money.”
— Sinan, Head of Beast Games Marketing, MrBeast- Skip the catch-up, get to the decision
- A head start on every draft
This is the end of the blank page. Slackbot creates first drafts effortlessly in your voice and style, transforming raw inputs into polished outputs. It can create customer emails, meeting talk tracks, briefs, blog outlines, onboarding guides, summaries, and more — pulling relevant information directly from your channels and files. Because it understands your role and the tone of your team, Slackbot produces content that is natural and on-brand. Instead of starting from a blank page, you start with a well-structured draft tailored to your needs, ready to refine and share.
“Slackbot is my brilliant colleague whose status is always green/available and is working right next to me in Slack. Instead of switching between multiple applications and windows and losing my train of thought, I can ask Slackbot questions and have it conduct research and create content without ever leaving Slack, the place I am working all day. It’s transformed how efficiently I move through my day — no context switching, no friction.”
— Christine McHone, Global Enterprise TMT Leader, Slalom- A head start on every draft
- Analyze files
You no longer have to read a 40-page deck at 4:45 p.m. on a Friday to understand the project’s status. From transcripts and spreadsheets to PDFs and long-form documents, Slackbot can analyze files deeply and instantly. Ask Slackbot to extract insights from sales call recordings, summarize complex reports, identify trends in customer feedback, or find specific data points inside large files. Slackbot cross-references file content with your other Slack conversations and connected systems to give you richer, more contextual answers. You spend less time searching and more time deciding, acting, and delivering.
“Slackbot has been an absolute chaos tamer for our team. It’s not just for simple tasks; it’s like having a virtual assistant, with far more context based on our business than any external tool.”
— Mollie Bodensteiner, SVP of Operations, Engine- Analyze files
Slackbot + enterprise search + native AI: a new level of productivity
Slackbot is part of Slack’s larger AI ecosystem, working seamlessly alongside enterprise search and native AI capabilities to create a unified, context-driven environment for modern work. It delivers a conversational search experience that mirrors how people think and find information in the AI era — through natural language and following the flow of your questions.
Slackbot has taken the beloved Slack search bar and supercharged it. With Slackbot, search becomes your thought partner. It reasons with you, adapts to your style, and even runs your next steps. Slackbot understands all of the context around your work, and when that context changes in real time, so do the answers, recommendations, and next steps it provides. With Slackbot, we’re moving from “Help me find information” to “Help me identify, plan, and act,” all from this new chat experience.
Slackbot brings the power of AI and search together in a single conversation. Native AI handles your “in the moment” needs, like summarizing a long thread or translating a message, while enterprise search finds files and data scattered across your apps and drives. Slackbot leverages both to help you move work forward, just by asking.
Trust and security are built-in, not bolted on
Enterprise AI only works when trust comes first.
Slackbot is built on the same foundation of trust as Slack itself. It’s protected by Slack AI Guardrails, a multi-layered safety framework designed to keep your data secure. It respects roles, permissions, and access controls, and only surfaces information you are authorized to see, with clear citations that show where information comes from.
Your interactions remain private to you. Your data is protected and handled in accordance with Slack’s security and compliance standards.
Real-time safeguards detect and defuse issues like prompt injection, unsafe content, or phishing attempts, while strict permission checks ensure that Slackbot only accesses data that users are already authorized to view within Slack.
This is enterprise-grade trust and security that customers expect, delivered through a personal, conversational experience.
This is just the beginning
Over time, Slackbot will become even more capable. As Agentforce and other third-party agents are introduced across your organization, Slackbot will become your ideal way to work with all of them.
Because it already understands your context, your priorities, and the way you work, Slackbot will become the place you turn first. You will not need to hunt for the right agent or tool. You’ll just ask Slackbot, and it will coordinate the work across systems and agents behind the scenes, while you stay focused on what matters.
Ready to meet the all-new Slackbot?
Slackbot will be made available to Business+ and Enterprise+ customers through a phased rollout beginning today and continuing through January and February. To get started, find the Slackbot icon just to the right of the search bar at the top of your workspace. Then simply strike up a conversation.
Check out all of Slackbot’s new features and join us for a webinar on January 29 to see how a personal AI agent can change every employee’s workday. To find the right plan for your team, get in touch with Sales now.
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January 2026
Slack debuts a redesigned Activity view for centralizing messages and reminders with new filters, plus a reintroduced Slackbot that acts as a productivity partner. Admins gain tighter AI access controls, and Huddles now open in a separate window with easier controls, plus various enterprise enhancements.
View all of your important notifications from Activity
The new Activity view is your one-stop shop for staying informed, managing messages, and taking action on everything you’re working on in Slack. You’ll now find direct messages (DMs), messages from channels set to All new posts, and reminders in Activity, along with new filtering options to easily find and sort your work and conversations.
Reintroducing Slackbot, your personal agent for work
Meet the new Slackbot, your productivity partner in Slack that understands how you work. Slackbot uses the knowledge in your workspace or Enterprise organization to help with whatever you need, whether it's prepping for a customer meeting, creating a project brief, or even finding that one canvas you can’t remember the name of. Check out A reintroduction to Slackbot for all the details on how Slackbot works now.
Restrict AI access to content in Slack
For more control over information that can be used to generate search answers, canvas content, and Slackbot responses, Org Owners and Admins on Enterprise+ can restrict AI access to channels, canvases, and lists.
Huddles window and toolbar improvements
Huddles now open in a new window by default so they don’t block the sidebar. If you close a huddle window, you’ll see the toolbar (with a new easy-to-access 🖐️ hand raise option) wherever you navigate in Slack.
Other news
- Make your internal resources searchable in Slack by building custom connectors for enterprise search. For more information, visit our API documentation.
- Admins and owners can now allow workflows that start from a keyword to be configured in private channels.
- Set up reminders so you’re always prompted to add alt text when uploading images.
- When you add Salesforce data to a canvas, any changes made in Salesforce or Slack will always be reflected in real-time.
- You’ll now see a preview before you join a huddle where you can adjust audio and video settings. To decide whether you see previews or not, adjust your huddles preferences.
- Admins and owners can now customize limited access Salesforce channels to control access based on more specific Salesforce permissions.
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Slack Feature Drop: New Innovations That Make Work Feel Like a Gift
Slack unveils a holiday ready surge of smarter AI and productivity upgrades to sharpen focus and streamline work across desktop and mobile. From AI that answers and explains on the fly to a rebuilt notifications system and stronger admin controls, this release clears noise and boosts momentum.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- ✨ AI that thinks with you ✨
- 🌀Stay in flow, wherever work happens 🌀
- 🛡️Built for trust, clarity, and scale 🛡️
A holiday-ready set of smarter AI and productivity upgrades designed to clear noise and streamline everyday work in Slack.
By the team at Slack
December 22nd, 2025Work can feel messy. Messages pile up, meetings blur together, and important things get buried in the noise. No one wakes up excited for that. What is exciting is when work suddenly feels lighter, when answers are easy to find, handoffs are smooth, and things just click. That’s exactly what these new features deliver.
These updates combine smarter AI, meaningful productivity upgrades, and stronger admin foundations to make work feel clearer, calmer, and more pleasant for everyone using Slack.✨ AI that thinks with you ✨
AI that thinks with you ✨
Practical AI that turns everyday moments into shared momentum
The best AI feels a little magical,in the best way. It shows up at just the right moment, understands what you’re trying to do, and helps without getting in the way. These updates bring AI directly into the flow of real work, turning everyday questions into shared knowledge, clearing up confusion instantly, and helping teams move from insight to action with ease.Share AI answers
Lets users instantly share AI-generated answers into channels or DMs with a single click, no screenshots or copy-paste required. Shared answers become persistent Slack messages that keep their full context, making them easy to reference, reply to, or reuse for repeat questions like onboarding, policies, or team workflows.***Mobile AI explanations
Helps users quickly understand jargon, acronyms, or dense messages while on the go. By long-pressing a message on mobile and selecting “Explain,” users get a clear, contextual breakdown without leaving the conversation or losing momentum.***Agentforce proactive notifications with buttons in Slack
Allows Agentforce agents to proactively notify users in Slack with interactive buttons like “Approve,” “Decline,” or “Draft email.” Clicking a button automatically sends a suggested prompt to the agent, letting users continue work instantly without typing or switching tools. (Requires Agentforce User Licenses)*
🌀Stay in flow, wherever work happens 🌀
Stay in flow, wherever work happens 🌀
Designed to reduce friction across focus, collaboration, and mobility
Work is rarely neat, and that’s okay. What isn’t okay is when tools slow you down or break your focus. These updates are exciting because they remove those speed bumps entirely. From smoother multitasking to smarter reminders and better mobile experiences, they help everything feel more connected, more fluid, and more satisfying, so you can stay in your groove no matter where work takes you.Notifications 2.0
A major overhaul of Slack’s notification system designed to reduce noise and confusion. Introduces simpler channel notification options, clearer push controls across desktop and mobile, improved global settings, and better syncing, so alerts are easier to understand and easier to manage.*Group DMs in user profiles (desktop release)
Adds shared group DMs directly to user profiles on desktop. When viewing a teammate’s profile, users can quickly jump into recent one-to-one or group conversations, or see the full list of shared DMs for easier reconnection.* (Available on mobile in January)Show related Slack conversations for Salesforce records
Brings Slack conversations directly into Salesforce Lightning. Users can view and interact with related channels and threads tied to a specific record, helping them stay connected to real discussions without leaving Salesforce or losing business context.*Desktop split view
Lets users pin channels, threads, apps, canvases, or agents side by side in a split view. This makes it easy to reference information while continuing to navigate Slack, ideal for multitasking, research, and interacting with AI tools without breaking flow. (Fully available in January)*Huddles windowing & toolbar revamp
Introduces a new Huddles mini-player with a docked bar and refreshed toolbar. Threads, canvases, reactions, and controls are now easier to access across windows, with clearer grouping and quicker access during live collaboration.*Improved tagging and filter completion in the omniswitcher
Makes searching faster and more intuitive with smarter @ and # tagging, improved filter suggestions, and quick links to common filters. The omniswitcher dynamically adapts its layout depending on whether users are searching broadly or narrowing results. (Fully available in January)*Enhanced file-type support in mobile file browse
Expands the Android mobile file browser to support all file types, including third-party and media files. Adds file-type filtering, improved empty states, and a unified experience that now matches iOS. (Fully available in January)*Huddles “just in time” (JIT) notification
Sends smart meeting reminders directly in Slack shortly before meetings start. Notifications include a one-click Join button that works with any conferencing link, plus options to snooze or dismiss so users never miss, or rush into, a meeting.*(Available now to free and Pro; available to all licenses starting in January)Channel email address updates
Makes channel email addresses easier to find and use, with new copy actions in menus, automatic address creation when needed, and support across all conversation types, including channels, DMs, and group DMs.*Hover and more message actions update
Refreshes message action menus with clearer grouping, updated icons, subtle hover animations, and a new desktop “copy message text” action. Aligns desktop and mobile experiences while making common actions faster to find.*Support landscape orientation on iPhone
Adds landscape orientation support to the Slack iPhone app. Slack now adapts automatically when devices rotate, making it easier to read long messages, view files, and work comfortably on larger screens.*****
🛡️Built for trust, clarity, and scale 🛡️
Built for trust, clarity, and scale 🛡️
Enterprise-grade control without slowing teams down
When Slack runs at the heart of an organization, the foundation really matters. These updates give admins clearer visibility, smarter controls, and a more consistent experience across plans. The result: Teams move faster, trust the system more, and scale with confidence, while admins spend less time managing complexity and more time supporting great work.Real-Time metrics in app analytics dashboard
Adds real-time insight into how apps consume messages and files. Includes a new “Last 24 Hours” view, near-instant query performance, and massive-scale data handling, giving admins faster visibility into app activity.****Delete message permissions
Introduces two new admin permissions that separately control who can delete their own messages and who can delete messages from apps or bots, offering more precise governance without over-restricting users.*Common admin navigation
Redesigns workspace admin navigation to align with the org dashboard. Creates a more modern, consistent experience across plans while improving scalability, maintainability, and flexibility for future updates.*Screen reader verbosity settings
Gives screen reader users control over how messages are read aloud on web and desktop. Users can customize verbosity levels in accessibility settings to better match their preferences and needs.*
Taken together, these updates represent one of our most exciting releases yet. They make Slack feel smarter, smoother, and more intuitive, without adding extra steps or complexity. Whether you’re getting through your day, collaborating with your team, or running Slack for an entire organization, these improvements are designed to give you momentum, confidence, and a little more joy in how work gets done.
Check out our Innovations webpage for previous releases.
Please note that some features may not be immediately available in your workspace depending on the rollout timeline, your Slack licensing plan, or additional license requirements. To learn more about feature availability, check with your admin on the licensing plans for your workspace.
Availability of features within Slack Licensing Plans as of December 19, 2025. Ready to learn more? Contact us.
*All Slack Plans
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**Pro, Business+ and Enterprise+
***Business+ and Enterprise+ / Grid
****Enterprise+ / Grid
*****Free, Pro, Business+ only