Run your agent on Slack

Slack is where work conversations happen, so it's a natural place for a work agent. Onepilot configures the Slack app for your OpenClaw or Hermes agent right in the app, then gives you the host itself over SSH.

TL;DR

Both OpenClaw and Hermes run in Slack, and Onepilot configures it for you in the app: create a Slack app, install it to your workspace, paste the tokens into the deploy wizard, and the agent answers in DMs or the channels you choose. The agent runs on your host, and the app gives you the SSH terminal, file browser, git, and cron on top — Slack for the conversation, the app for the control.

Wire your agent's Slack app from the Onepilot app — one email when it ships on the App Store.

What Slack gives your agent

It's already your work surface. If your team lives in Slack, an agent there fields questions, runs jobs, and reports results where people already are — no new app to adopt.

DMs or channels. Keep the agent private in a DM, or put it in a channel as a shared teammate that responds when addressed.

Proactive updates. The agent can post when a long task finishes or a scheduled job runs, so Slack becomes a status feed as well as a command line.

How Onepilot configures Slack for you

By hand, Slack means creating an app, setting scopes and event subscriptions, installing it to the workspace via OAuth, collecting the tokens, and wiring the agent's gateway config over SSH. Onepilot turns that into a wizard step: pick Slack during deploy, paste the tokens, and it writes the config on the host and starts the bot. You install the app to your workspace and choose where it listens.

The same flow applies whether you deployed OpenClaw or Hermes — same channel layer in the app, different framework underneath.

Channel for the conversation, app for the control

Slack is great for talking to a work agent, but it can't show you the host. Reading the skill files the agent wrote, inspecting a git diff, tailing a log, or running a command to fix something needs shell access. Onepilot's SSH tunnel gives you a real terminal, a file browser, git, and cron alongside the Slack conversation — so the team works with the agent in Slack while you operate the machine from the app. A plain Slack bot stops at chat; Onepilot also hands you the host, for OpenClaw and Hermes alike.

FAQ

Can I run OpenClaw or Hermes in Slack?

Yes — both support Slack as a channel, and Onepilot configures it for you in the app. You create a Slack app and install it to your workspace, paste the tokens into the deploy wizard, and Onepilot writes the gateway config on your host and starts the bot. The agent then answers in DMs or the channels you choose.

Does Onepilot handle the Slack setup?

Onepilot handles the agent side. You create the Slack app and install it to your workspace (a few minutes in Slack's dashboard), then paste the tokens into the Onepilot wizard. The app does the rest over SSH — writing the channel config on the host, wiring the tokens, and starting the bot. No hand-editing config files.

Can the agent stay private to me, or be shared with the team?

Both. Keep it in a DM for a private assistant, or add it to channels as a shared teammate that responds when addressed. You decide where it listens when you install the app to the workspace.

Slack, Telegram, or Discord — which should I pick?

Pick where your people already are. Slack fits work teams, Discord fits communities and dev teams, Telegram fits a personal voice-first assistant. Onepilot configures any of the three for OpenClaw or Hermes the same way, so the choice is about your audience, not the agent.

What if I need more than chat?

Onepilot also opens a real SSH tunnel to the host, so beyond the Slack conversation you get a terminal, a file browser to read the agent's skill files, a git tab for real diffs, and cron. The team can work with the agent in Slack while you operate the underlying machine from the same app — which a chat-only Slack bot can't do.

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