Fall’s officially rolling through, and with it comes that annual itch to see what’s been cooking behind the scenes. 🎃 Turns out, quite a lot — Slackbot can now make sense of member data, MCP just picked up support for Slack lists and file uploads, and a brand-new Agent About page finally makes it simple to see what permissions and identity an app is actually carrying.
So if you’re deep in launch mode before things get hectic, or just need to catch up on a month’s worth of changes, here’s your roundup. 🍿
Bringing Salesforce flow logic into Slack
Ready to build something Slackbot can’t do out of the box? This short workshop walks through connecting Slack to a Salesforce org and exposing your own custom business logic to Slackbot via Model Context Protocol (MCP). To extend on Slackbot’s native ability to read Salesforce records, let’s learn how to build a Flow that encapsulates real decision-making logic, package it as an MCP tool, and let Slackbot call it directly in conversation.
Keep your app tokens fresh with token rotation
App-level token rotation gives your apps short-lived credentials that expire every 12 hours and refresh automatically, so open Socket Mode connections keep running. Get a quick refresher on app-level tokens, see how rotation works, and learn what to check before enabling it in production.
A roundup of what’s new for Slack developers
Agent messaging is evolving, Slack Code is here, and the platform has picked up new MCP capabilities, context APIs, CLI commands, and major Bolt and SDK releases. Catch up on the latest updates, including migration deadlines and other changes that may require action.
Slack Dev Huddles — Episode 10 Live on LinkedIn!
Join our next Slack Dev Huddles for a hands-on, live look at the Slack Skills Plugin in action. Rather than just talking through the concepts, we’ll be running the plugin live — showing exactly what the developer experience feels like end-to-end, from setup to a working integration. It works with tools like Claude Code, Cursor, or any other major coding agent and gets developers building fast without heavy configuration overhead.
If you’re looking for an easy way to build Slack apps, come see it live and perhaps even try it with us!
What’s New ✨
Slackbot can now answer your member analytics questions
Slackbot can now answer member analytics questions directly, letting Org Owners, Admins, and Analytics Admins query active members, membership trends, and more using natural language instead of digging through dashboards. It pulls from the same data powering the admin dashboards, can turn results into shareable surfaces and even exports to CSV for deeper multi-query analysis. Ask Slackbot: “Show me my workspace’s membership trends for the last 28 days and create an interactive report for it.”
Slack lists and file uploads come to MCP
Slack Lists has landed in the Slack MCP Server — create, read, and update structured lists directly through your AI assistant. Pair that with the new file upload tool, and agents can now post real work products — screenshots, charts, and more — right in your chat, not just text.
The Agent About page just launched
There is now a richer, in-Slack view of any app or agent’s identity, description, features, permissions, security/compliance, and scopes, so users no longer need to jump to the Marketplace to evaluate trust and value.
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