Driving Machine from Slack
Connect a Slack workspace so your team can start and steer agent work without leaving chat.
Connect Slack to a project and your team can kick off work, answer an agent's questions, and follow along — all from a channel. Set it up under the project's Settings → Channels.
Connect Slack
Add the app
On the Slack card, click Add to Slack to install Machine's own Slack app in one click. If your workspace connects through a Slack app you own instead, or you prefer that, click Use your own Slack app (or Set up Slack when it is the only option).
Using your own app
The setup walks you through three steps. Machine gives you a Slack app manifest — a ready-made configuration. In Slack, create a new app "From a manifest" and paste it; it sets the right scopes, slash command, and event subscriptions for you. Install the app to your workspace, then paste its Bot User OAuth Token and Signing Secret back into Machine. Machine stores them encrypted on the server as connector credentials and uses them only server-side; they never reach a sandbox. Once connected, the channel is live.
Set the channel's defaults
Once the bot is in a Slack channel, that channel shows up under Channel
bindings on the same page. For each one, pick the Agent, the Model,
and the Join policy (who can start work there). A channel you leave alone
follows the project default, so a support channel and an engineering channel
can run different agents. You can also set these from Slack with
/kortix agent, /kortix model, and /kortix policy.
Use it in a channel
Once connected, your team works with the agent right in Slack — mention it with a task, and the agent runs a session and replies in the thread. It can ask clarifying questions and you answer inline, the same back-and-forth you'd have in the dashboard, where everyone in the channel can follow along.
Slack is one of several ways in — the same project, sessions, and review gate back it. Work started from Slack shows up in the dashboard too, and still lands through a change request.
Other channels
Slack is not the only chat surface. On the same Settings → Channels page you can also connect:
- Inkbox — text, iMessage, email, or call the agent through your own Inkbox account. See Inkbox.
- Glyph — talk to a session's agent by voice with the Live button in the session header. See Glyph.
Related: Slack & channels · Customizing your project.