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Slack Just
Changed Forever

Slackbot is now a full AI agent, and it runs on Claude. It takes meeting notes, works across your desktop, runs reusable skills your whole team can share and keeps a built-in CRM. Here’s how to use the parts that matter.

On March 31, 2026, Salesforce announced 30 new AI features for Slackbot. (TechCrunch) It went from the thing that reminds you about unread messages to a work assistant that can recap your meetings, act on whatever is on your screen and route tasks to other apps and agents.

The brain behind it is Claude. Slack’s CTO Parker Harris told CNBC that Slackbot is powered by Anthropic’s Claude models. (SiliconANGLE) So if you’re learning Claude, you’re learning the AI already sitting inside the tool you use at work every day.

Who Gets It

Full Slackbot is included on Business+ and Enterprise+. Free and Pro workspaces get a limited trial. (Slack pricing) Features rolled out in waves, so if you don’t see one yet, ask your Slack admin.

The Big 3

01

Meeting notes

With the Slack desktop app, Slackbot can listen in the background during your meetings, including ones held in other apps like Zoom or Google Meet, then give you a summary with the action items pulled out. Missed part of a call? Ask it for a recap of what you missed and what’s assigned to you. (Salesforce)

Pro move: stop taking notes. Your job in the meeting is to think and talk. Review the summary after, fix anything it missed, and move on.

02

Slackbot on your whole desktop

Slackbot now works outside Slack. Select anything on your screen, like a spreadsheet, an email or a doc, and ask it to summarize, draft a reply or flag a risk. It pulls in context from your Slack conversations and calendar, so the answer fits your actual work.

Pro move: highlight a confusing paragraph in a long email and ask "What does this mean for our team?" or "Draft a reply pushing back on this timeline."

03

Reusable skills

This is the one with the biggest long-term payoff. A skill is a saved set of instructions for a task you do over and over. Build it once and anyone you share it with can run it. Slackbot also picks the right skill on its own when your request matches.

  1. Open Slackbot from the sidebar and go to the Skills tab.
  2. Click Add skill, then Create a skill.
  3. Describe the task (paste the prompt below and edit the brackets), then click Create skill. Prefer to write it yourself? Choose Build from scratch instead.
  4. Test it with Use skill, then hover over it and click Share skill to give it to your team.
Skill: Weekly Status Update
Create a skill called "Weekly Status Update" for my team. GOAL: every Friday, turn the week's Slack activity into a status update my manager can read in 2 minutes. INPUTS: messages from [#channel-1, #channel-2] and any threads I was tagged in since Monday. If I attach a file or canvas, use it too. STEPS: 1. Pull what shipped, what moved forward and what got stuck this week. 2. Group it by project: [Project A, Project B, Project C]. 3. For each blocker, name the owner and what they need to unblock it. 4. List decisions that were made, with a link to the message where each was decided. 5. Flag anything due next week. OUTPUT: a draft message (not sent) with these headers: Shipped, In Progress, Blocked, Decisions, Next Week. Bullets only, under 200 words, plain language, no hype. RULES: - Only include things that actually appear in the messages. If a section is empty, write "Nothing this week." - Link the source message for every decision and blocker. - Never post or send anything without me reviewing it first.

Skills need a paid plan with Slackbot access. (Slack skills help) Start with the tasks that eat the most time each week, like status updates, meeting agendas and client recaps.

Also New

04

Built-in CRM

Slackbot can read your channels and keep deals, contacts and call notes up to date on its own. It syncs with Salesforce, and Salesforce pitches it to small businesses that don’t have a CRM yet.

05

Agent routing through MCP

Slackbot is now an MCP client. In plain English, you ask Slackbot for something and it can hand the request to the right connected app or agent, like Salesforce’s Agentforce or another tool your company connects, then bring the answer back into your chat.

06

Channel catch-ups

Ask Slackbot to summarize any channel or thread and you get what happened, what was decided and what needs you. Every Monday, run this on the channels you follow but don’t post in.

Monday Catch-Up
Catch me up on [#channel] from last Monday to now. I read this channel but don't post in it much. Give me: 1. The 3 to 5 things that matter most, one line each, with a link to the message. 2. Every decision that was made, and who made it. 3. Anything that mentions me, my team or [my project], and whether someone is waiting on me. 4. Open questions nobody has answered yet. Keep it under 150 words. Skip small talk, emoji reactions and resolved back-and-forth. If you're not sure something was decided, say "unclear" instead of guessing.

07

Search by meaning

You don’t have to remember the exact words anymore. Ask "What did the design team decide about the homepage?" and Slackbot finds it. Before you start any project, ask whether anyone has discussed it before so you don’t relitigate old decisions.

The Claude Connection

Because Slackbot runs on Claude, what you learn in one carries over to the other. A clear Claude prompt makes a clear Slackbot skill. A workflow you perfect in Claude can become a skill your whole team runs.

Claude isn’t only an app you use on the side anymore. It’s showing up inside the tools your company already pays for, which makes learning it one of the best career moves you can make right now.