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Re: Show HN: Slack CLI for Agents

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Post by humanperhaps »

impulser_ wrote: post #9

I'm glad more people are catching onto lightweight CLI tools and using skills to give llms more tools. It's way better than MCP. I been doing this for awhile now and it's just the best way to gets LLMs to do things with APIs built for humans.

From my perspective, this also marks the shift towards agent skills instead of MCP, since agent skills rely on CLI tools. To me, this is also better than MCP since third-party developers can easily reuse existing APIs and libraries instead of needing official MCP support.

Re: Show HN: Slack CLI for Agents

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Post by nwparker »

apimade wrote: post #8

Warning: in Enterprise (Grid) your account will likely be flagged as hijacked, and all of your sessions will be killed. Slack implemented session hijacking detection a while ago, and using LLM’s without throttling will very likely result in alerts. If you’re on Enterprise; I’d suggest re-slopping a re-implementation of this with ghost Chrome puppeteer.

I don't use Slack Grid, but if you open an issue I'm more than happy to work with you on it!

Re: Show HN: Slack CLI for Agents

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Post by FranklinJabar »

Using slack makes me so depressed. The interactions we have today pale in comparison to what we had in IRC 30 years ago.

Of course I accept we're stuck with slack. I just have no clue what to write with such a limited interface. The above posted link is a great example of making the most of a tiny interface and coming up short compared to... 30 years ago

Re: Show HN: Slack CLI for Agents

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Post by tacone »

Wuzzy wrote: post #7

I believe in an MCP-less future of agent-service interactions and have recently submitted this general alternative (which also supports Slack) based on curl: https://github.com/imbue-ai/latchkey With that said, a specialized tool like this will almost certainly work better if Slack is the only service you want your agents to interact with. I like that the auth is transparent.

I am asking my agents to use HTTPie this day, it's more understandable for them in case of error.

Re: Show HN: Slack CLI for Agents

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Post by stavros »

FranklinJabar wrote: post #13

Using slack makes me so depressed. The interactions we have today pale in comparison to what we had in IRC 30 years ago. Of course I accept we're stuck with slack. I just have no clue what to write with such a limited interface. The above posted link is a great example of making the most of a tiny interface and coming up short compared to... 30 years ago

There are some great alternatives, like Zulip and Twist. Unfortunately, ~nobody uses them.

Re: Show HN: Slack CLI for Agents

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Post by andreagrandi »

impulser_ wrote: post #9

I'm glad more people are catching onto lightweight CLI tools and using skills to give llms more tools. It's way better than MCP. I been doing this for awhile now and it's just the best way to gets LLMs to do things with APIs built for humans.

same! I personally released a couple of CLIs (written using Claude Code) which I regularly use for my work: logbasset (to access Scalyr logs) and sentire (to access Sentry issues). I never use them manually, I wrote them to be used well by LLMs. I think they are lighter compared to an MCP.
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