An AI agent powered by Claude with web search, deployed on Val Town.

• Responds to @mentions in channels and threads, with full thread history as context
• Acts as a Slack assistant in DMs (Chat tab), with greeting + suggested prompts
• Powered by Claude Sonnet 4.6 with Anthropic's built-in web search tool
• One-click Slack app setup — no manual scope or event configuration
• Easily extensible: swap models, add tools, change prompts

1. Click Remix to get your own copy of this val.
2. Open your val's HTTP endpoint in a new tab (you should see it in the homepage of your remixed val), then click Create Slack App. The app's manifest — scopes, events, and webhook URL — is pre-filled, so just click Next → pick workspace → Create.
3. Install to Workspace in the Slack app's Install App tab.
4. Paste 3 secrets into your val's environment variables (the slots are already created — just fill the values):
   • SLACK_BOT_TOKEN — Slack app → OAuth & Permissions → Bot User OAuth Token (xoxb-...)
   • SLACK_SIGNING_SECRET — Slack app → Basic Information → Signing Secret
   • ANTHROPIC_API_KEY — from the Claude console

• DM the bot — open the Slack app, click Messages, and chat. The conversation maintains thread context automatically.
• @mention in a channel — the bot replies in a thread on your message. Follow-ups in that thread also get full thread context.

⚠️ Invite the bot to the channel first (/invite @AI Slackbot). Without channel membership, the bot receives the mention event but can't read thread history, and will only see your single mention as context.

ai-slackbot/
├── events.ts                        # HTTP entry point: setup page + Slack event router
├── prompt.md                        # System prompt for your agent
├── README.md
└── lib/
    ├── generate-response.ts         # AI core (Claude + web search)
    ├── handle-app-mention.ts        # @mentions in channels and threads
    ├── handle-message.ts            # DMs in assistant (Chat tab) threads
    ├── handle-thread-started.ts     # Greeting + suggested prompts on new assistant thread
    └── slack-utils.ts               # Slack client, request verification, thread fetching

Slack POSTs events to /events. The handler verifies the signature, then dispatches the heavy work to /process as a separate HTTP request — Val Town kills detached promises after the response is sent, so the early-return pattern gives the real handler its own full execution lifecycle.

• Swap the model or model provider → lib/generate-response.ts (uses the Vercel AI SDK, so any provider works)
• Edit the system prompt → prompt.md
• Add tools (database queries, knowledge bases, custom APIs) → extend the tools object in lib/generate-response.ts. See the AI SDK tools docs.
• Change greeting or suggested prompts in DMs → lib/handle-thread-started.ts
• Change Slack scopes, events, or app metadata → edit the manifest object at the top of events.ts. Re-create the Slack app from the updated setup page.

This val uses pinned imports to avoid breaking changes:

1. @slack/web-api@7.14.1
2. hono@4.12.0
3. ai@6.0.92
4. @ai-sdk/anthropic@3.0.45

Based on Vercel's Slackbot Agent Guide and Pete Millspaugh's pmillspaugh/duck