See What’s New: Slack

Learning Objectives

After completing this unit, you’ll be able to:

• Describe the latest features and enhancements for Slack.
  

Dive into the new features in Slack, including MCP support to bring the full context of your work into a single platform for getting things done. Slack is your key resource for connecting people, tools, and data to deliver a next-level experience.

Slack

Slackbot MCP Client

When employees leave Slack to get work done, they can lose focus and the AI assistant they left behind loses context. Slackbot MCP Client connects Slackbot to the tools a team already runs on, including Google, Atlassian, Box, Notion, DocuSign, and others. Slack uses the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to take action across the entire stack. Make a request, and Slackbot reaches into the connected tool and does the work–updates a record, creates a document, closes a ticket, moves a task forward, and more. No tab switch required. Stay connected and take action from the same conversation your team is already in.

Partner MCP Apps

Most tools can only push a notification into Slack. But that’s reactive, one-directional, and it still sends you elsewhere to finish the work. Partner MCP Apps flip the model. Slackbot reaches out to services like Box, Docusign, Linear, and Jira on your behalf, and MCP UI renders their tools as interactive visual blocks, surfacing live data, interactive forms, and action panels inside the conversation. Sign a document, update a ticket, or check a dashboard; Slackbot brings the work to you instead of handing you a link. It’s the difference between a notification and an action.

Visit the Slack Marketplace to see all available apps.

Slackbot Memory

Every time a conversation ends, most AI assistants forget everything, which means users have to reexplain their role, team, and priorities from scratch again and again. Slackbot Memory changes this by building persistent, accumulated knowledge from a user’s real activity in Slack: the channels they work in, the decisions their team has made, and the stakeholders and projects that define their day-to-day. No manual setup is required. Slackbot learns passively over time, growing more useful the longer a user works in Slack. AI that understands organizational context is the difference between a generic assistant and one that can act, prioritize, and communicate on behalf of the people it works with.