slack-researcher

What problem does it solve?

This Skill finds undocumented organizational knowledge in Slack—decisions, constraints, and discussion trajectories that are not captured in code, docs, or issue trackers—so teams can make informed planning and engineering choices without missing informal context.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Targeted search across channels: Combines semantic queries and keyword modifiers to locate relevant threads and messages in public and private channels (not DMs).
• Thread-first synthesis: Reads selected threads end-to-end and extracts the net decision or constraint instead of dumping raw messages.
• Verification and safety: Identifies the workspace from permalinks, enforces precondition checks for Slack connectivity, caps thread reads to limit token usage, and avoids writing to Slack.
• Use case: During design or deployment planning, run this Skill to surface prior commitments, unresolved objections, and deployment constraints discussed in Slack that affect your plan.

Quick Start

Search Slack for context about the API pagination change and return a concise digest of decisions, constraints, and relevant threads.