Slack

The Slack integration lets your team talk to Amika’s coding agents from a Slack channel or DM. Mention the bot with a request and Amika spins up a rig for that thread, runs the agent, and replies in-thread. Follow-up messages in the same thread continue the same rig and session.

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Prerequisites

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Install the Slack app

1. Go to app.amika.dev/integrations.
2. In the Slack section, click Connect Slack workspace.
3. Approve the requested permissions in Slack, then choose the workspace to install into.

After the OAuth flow completes, the workspace appears under Connected Slack workspaces. Click a workspace to open its settings. The app requests the scopes it needs to read mentions and channel history, post replies, add and remove reactions (the “eyes” acknowledgement the bot shows while an agent is thinking), and read your workspace name and icon.

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Set workspace defaults

Open a connected workspace and expand Workspace defaults. These are the org-wide fallback the bot uses in any channel that has no defaults of its own:

• Repository — the repo agents work in.
• Agent — the agent CLI used to process messages. Configure that agent’s credentials in the matching settings page.
• System prompt — optional extra instructions passed to the agent on every turn.

Leave a field blank to pass no default for it.

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Set channel defaults

Expand Channel defaults on the same page to pin a repository, agent, and system prompt per channel. A channel appears in this list once the bot has been mentioned in it. Until then, mention @amika in the channel to populate its name. A channel that defines its own defaults uses them instead of showing the picker card when a new thread starts. Any field left as Inherit (org default) falls back to the workspace defaults above.

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Start a conversation from Slack

1. Invite the bot to a channel, or open a DM with it.
2. Mention @amika with your request (in a channel), or just message the bot directly (in a DM).
3. The bot adds an “eyes” reaction to acknowledge the message, runs the agent, and posts the result back in the thread. The reaction is removed once the reply lands.

How Amika picks the repository and agent for a new thread:

1. Channel defaults, if the channel has any.
2. Workspace defaults, otherwise.
3. The picker card — if neither is set, the bot prompts you to choose the repository and agent for the thread.

Each Slack thread maps to its own rig. Continuing the thread continues that rig’s session, so the agent keeps its context across follow-up messages.

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Next steps