Search Slack for Past Decisions and Conversations
Find specific messages, decisions, or discussions across your Slack workspace without manual scrolling.
Catch Up on Slack Channel Activity
Read and summarise recent messages from any Slack channel without manual scrolling.
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Coming back to Slack after time off, joining a fast-moving project channel mid-sprint, or catching up on a channel you have been too busy to monitor — all of these involve the same painful manual process of scrolling back through messages you missed, reading long threads, and trying to piece together what happened.
The read_messages and list_channels skills let you access recent message history from any channel you have access to. Feed that to your AI agent and it can produce a clear summary: what was discussed, what was decided, who is responsible for what, and what is still open.
Managers returning from leave, engineers joining a project mid-way through, and anyone whose Slack notification count has gotten out of hand use this to catch up in minutes rather than losing an hour to scroll.
Agent Guides
Claude
- Connect ToolRouter to Claude: claude mcp add toolrouter -- npx -y toolrouter-mcp
- Ask: "Read the recent messages in #project-alpha and give me a summary"
- Claude retrieves and reads the channel messages
ChatGPT
- Add ToolRouter to ChatGPT using the MCP JSON configuration
- Ask: "Read #[channel] and give me a catch-up summary"
- ChatGPT retrieves and summarises the recent messages
Copilot
- Add ToolRouter to your Copilot MCP configuration
- In Copilot Chat: "Read recent messages from #engineering"
- Copilot retrieves the channel history
OpenClaw
- Connect ToolRouter to OpenClaw: openclaw mcp add toolrouter -- npx -y toolrouter-mcp
- Define monitoring scope: "Read #leadership, #product, and #engineering daily"
- OpenClaw reads recent messages from all specified channels
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