Building Slack agents can be easy
By Steven Van ·
A new skill scaffolds, configures and deploys Slack agents on Vercel's eve framework in a single coding-agent session.
Vercel has released a skill that walks a coding agent through building and deploying a Slack agent, built on top of eve, Vercel's new open-source framework for durable agents. Getting a Slack agent running normally means coordinating several separate systems:
- Creating an app in the Slack API console
- Configuring OAuth scopes and event subscriptions
- Writing webhook handlers and signature verification
- Deploying to infrastructure that can respond within Slack's three-second window
The skill is installed with npx skills add vercel-labs/slack-agent-skill and works with Claude Code, OpenCode, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot. Running it starts a wizard that asks what the agent should do, generates an implementation plan for review before writing any code, then scaffolds a project from Vercel's Slack Agent Template, creates and installs the Slack app, sets up the environment, and deploys to production.
The template uses Vercel Connect for managed Slack OAuth and webhook verification, so the only Slack environment variable needed is SLACK_CONNECTOR, and it uses Vercel AI Gateway with anthropic/claude-sonnet-5 by default, so no AI API keys are required either.