16. Slack Tool

OverviewIntegrates AEX with Slack for ChatOps, notifications, and collaboration.

Key capabilities

• Send messages to channels or users.
• List channels for routing.
• Get basic user information.

Functions

• send_message – Sends a message to a Slack channel.
• list_channels – Lists all channels in the Slack workspace.

• get_user_info – Retrieves information about a Slack user.

Configuration

• Secrets: SLACK_BOT_TOKEN

• Config: SLACK_API_URL

Typical AEX use cases

• Posting incident and deployment alerts to team channels.

• Slack-native bots that front AEX agents.