Slack has made its Code API generally available on all plans. Agents can open a channel for a coding task, bring in people and files, report progress and archive the channel after completion. Existing permissions apply and the history stays searchable. Two-way GitHub review comments and an enhanced agent overview are still forthcoming.
Slack, the workplace messaging platform, announced general availability of its Code application programming interface, or API, on 28 October across all plans. Developers can use it to let an AI agent create a code channel for a particular task. The agent can bring the relevant people and files into that space and post progress as the work proceeds.[1]
Code differences, web-interface previews and execution steps can appear inside Slack. Teammates can add context or redirect an agent while its task is still under way. The agent inherits the permissions and administrator controls of the channel where it operates. Once the work finishes, it can archive the channel, whose history remains available for search after archiving.[1]
Slack distinguishes the newly opened API from further changes it describes as coming soon. These include two-way synchronization of GitHub review comments and the merge experience after approval. An enhanced Agents & Tools overview is also forthcoming. Those review and navigation changes are therefore on a different delivery timetable from the task-channel interface now available to developers.[1]
