Slack Is Turning Chat Into an Agent Workbench
What jumped out at me isn’t the “Slack has AI now” part. That’s table stakes. It’s the attempt to make the chat room itself the control plane for agent work: one place where the prompt, the plan, the diff, the preview, and the human approval all live together. That feels much more realistic than the usual “just @ the bot in a thread and hope for the best” demo. I also think Slack is being unusually smart about the messy part people keep glossing over. The article says the agent inherits Slack’s
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