Slack Notify

Slack Notify

Use this skill only when the user explicitly invokes $slack-notify or explicitly asks to send a Slack notification.

The command posts a plain-text message through slack-post. It loads credentials with the sibling secrets skill, using $secrets slack semantics:

• Token: SLACK_TOKEN or SLACK_BOT_TOKEN from ~/.secrets/.env.slack.
• Channel: SLACK_CHANNEL from ~/.secrets/.env.slack.

Do not print token values, decrypted env values, or full environment dumps.

Usage

./scripts/slack-notify "hello world"
./scripts/slack-notify "task is ready"

The public shorthand is:

$slack-notify "hello world"
$slack-notify "task is ready"

For multi-line text:

printf 'line one\nline two\n' | ./scripts/slack-notify

Workflow

1. Confirm the user explicitly asked to post a Slack notification.
2. Keep the message plaintext and exactly scoped to what the user requested.
3. Run the bundled helper:

./scripts/slack-notify "message"

The helper resolves ../secrets/scripts/secrets, runs secrets slack -- ..., checks SLACK_CHANNEL, and calls:

slack-post --channel "$SLACK_CHANNEL" "message"

slack-post reads the token from SLACK_TOKEN or SLACK_BOT_TOKEN inside the secrets-loaded environment.

Safety

• Do not send Slack posts for generic task completion unless the user explicitly asks for Slack notification.
• Do not echo SLACK_BOT_TOKEN, SLACK_TOKEN, .env.slack, .env.keys, or dotenvx decrypted output.
• If slack-post fails, report the non-secret error text only.
• If credentials are missing, ask the user to update them through $secrets init slack and dotenvx set ... -f ~/.secrets/.env.slack; do not ask them to paste secret values into chat.
• Use terminal-notifier or other non-Slack notification mechanisms separately when a workspace requires local completion notifications.

Troubleshooting

• Missing slack-post: install or expose the slack-post tool on PATH.
• Missing channel: set SLACK_CHANNEL in ~/.secrets/.env.slack.
• Missing token: set SLACK_BOT_TOKEN or SLACK_TOKEN in ~/.secrets/.env.slack.
• Missing secrets helper: ensure the secrets skill is installed beside this skill, or set SECRETS_CMD to the helper path.