How do I install the Channels Setup skill?

Run npx skillmds@latest add copilotkit/channels-setup in your terminal (requires Node.js), paste this page's agent-chat prompt into Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-connected agent, or download the SKILL.md file and copy it into your agent's skills directory.

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Is Channels Setup free to use?

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Who published Channels Setup?

copilotkit (@copilotkit) published this skill. Their other Agent Skills are listed on their SkillMD profile.

Channels Setup by copilotkit — Agent Skill

Name: Channels Setup
Rating: 4.666666666666667 (3 reviews)
Author: copilotkit

Channels Setup

Use when a developer wants to build their first CopilotKit Channels agent and get it answering in Slack or Microsoft Teams — "set up a channel", "connect my agent to Slack", "get my agent into Teams", or starting from nothing and wanting a working channel end to end. Covers the whole path: inspecting or scaffolding the project, building the AG-UI agent, creating and reconciling the managed Channel with the public CopilotKit CLI, running the long-running host, and proving a real provider mention gets a reply. The workflow is not in this file — it is fetched from https://copilotkit.ai/channels-guide.md at run time, so it cannot go stale against the CLI.

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File contents

Set up a CopilotKit Channel

The workflow is not written down here. It lives at one canonical URL so it is corrected in one place instead of on every surface that describes it:

https://copilotkit.ai/channels-guide.md

Do this

Fetch https://copilotkit.ai/channels-guide.md.
Verify you actually got the guide (below).
Follow it exactly, start to finish.

The guide asks for its own inputs — the target project, the agent's real job, Slack or Microsoft Teams, and the agent framework and model. Do not pre-empt those questions, and do not substitute remembered channel-setup steps for what the guide says. Remembered steps are the reason this file is a pointer.

Verify you actually got the guide

A missing guide does not return 404. The site answers unknown paths with a "Page not found" HTML page under HTTP 200, so a successful status code proves nothing. Check the body instead:

It is markdown, not HTML.
It begins with # Build and prove a CopilotKit Channels agent.
It contains five ## Phase headings.

If any of those fail, you did not get the guide — treat it as unavailable no matter what the status code said.

If you did not get the guide

Stop. Tell the user you could not reach the guide, show them the URL, and ask them to paste its contents or retry.

Do not improvise the workflow from memory. It spans the CopilotKit CLI, a managed Channel, provider setup performed by the user in Slack or Azure, and a long-running runtime host. A half-remembered version produces a project that installs cleanly and answers nothing, which is the most expensive failure available here — it looks finished.

---name: channels-setupdescription: Use when a developer wants to build their first CopilotKit Channels agent and get it answering in Slack or Microsoft Teams — "set up a channel", "connect my agent to Slack", "get my agent into Teams", or starting from nothing and wanting a working channel end to end. Covers the whole path: inspecting or scaffolding the project, building the AG-UI agent, creating and reconciling the managed Channel with the public CopilotKit CLI, running the long-running host, and proving a real provider mention gets a reply. The workflow is not in this file — it is fetched from https://copilotkit.ai/channels-guide.md at run time, so it cannot go stale against the CLI.--- # Set up a CopilotKit Channel The workflow is **not written down here**. It lives at one canonical URL so it is corrected in one place instead of on every surface that describes it: **https://copilotkit.ai/channels-guide.md** ## Do this 1. Fetch `https://copilotkit.ai/channels-guide.md`. 2. Verify you actually got the guide (below). 3. Follow it exactly, start to finish. The guide asks for its own inputs — the target project, the agent's real job, Slack or Microsoft Teams, and the agent framework and model. Do not pre-empt those questions, and do not substitute remembered channel-setup steps for what the guide says. Remembered steps are the reason this file is a pointer. ## Verify you actually got the guide **A missing guide does not return 404.** The site answers unknown paths with a "Page not found" HTML page under HTTP 200, so a successful status code proves nothing. Check the body instead: - It is markdown, not HTML. - It begins with `# Build and prove a CopilotKit Channels agent`. - It contains five `## Phase` headings. If any of those fail, you did not get the guide — treat it as unavailable no matter what the status code said. ## If you did not get the guide Stop. Tell the user you could not reach the guide, show them the URL, and ask them to paste its contents or retry. Do not improvise the workflow from memory. It spans the CopilotKit CLI, a managed Channel, provider setup performed by the user in Slack or Azure, and a long-running runtime host. A half-remembered version produces a project that installs cleanly and answers nothing, which is the most expensive failure available here — it looks finished.

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