# Connect Slack with Unblocked to turn team conversations into context URL: https://getunblocked.com/integrations/slack/ Unblocked integrates with Slack to give AI coding agents and developers cited context from your channels and threads — and lets your team ask Unblocked questions directly in Slack. --- ## Slack integration details - **Category:** Messaging - **Indexed data:** channels, threads, @mention Q&A - **Supported products:** Slack - **Works with:** Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, GitHub Copilot, Codex, VS Code — via one MCP server connection - **Content reviewed:** July 20, 2026 - **Documentation:** - **Website:** ## What the Slack integration adds Slack contains fast-moving decisions and troubleshooting details that may never become formal documentation. Unblocked makes authorized conversations researchable alongside code and tickets, so an agent can find the discussion that resolved an ambiguity and cite it back to the team. It also brings Unblocked into Slack: your team can @mention the bot to ask questions, get auto-responses when Unblocked has a confident answer, or DM it privately. Answers reconcile Slack discussion with your code, pull requests, and docs. Once connected, the same context is available to any MCP-compatible coding agent — Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, GitHub Copilot, Codex — through a single Unblocked MCP server connection. ### What you get - **Channel history as context** — Unblocked indexes the public and private channels you authorize and cites the thread it used, so decisions made in chat show up in answers. - **Ask Unblocked in Slack** — Your team can @mention the bot, DM it, or get auto-responses when Unblocked has a confident answer — no context-switch out of Slack. - **Permission-aware private channels** — Private channel support (paid) respects membership, with an approval step before private context is shared to a public channel. - **Cross-source synthesis** — Slack threads are combined with your code, pull requests, Jira tickets, and docs into a single knowledge graph. ## How to connect Slack to Unblocked Prerequisites: - An Unblocked account (free to start). - A Slack Workspace Admin to connect Unblocked to your workspace. Private channel support requires a paid plan. - An MCP-compatible coding agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, etc.) to use the context in your editor. ### Step 1: Connect Slack to Unblocked 1. In Unblocked, go to Settings → Data Sources → Connect another data source, and under Messaging platforms select Slack. 2. Sign in to Slack as a Workspace Admin and click Allow to grant access. 3. Select the channels to connect (public or private) and click Save Settings. 4. Invite Unblocked to the selected channels (Add and Continue); verify with "Is Unblocked listening?" in a channel. See the complete setup guide, screenshots, and troubleshooting: ### Step 2: Install the Unblocked MCP server On macOS, one command auto-detects and configures your supported agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, GitHub Copilot, Codex, VS Code): ```bash curl -fsSL https://getunblocked.com/install-mcp.sh | bash ``` The install script supports macOS only. On Windows or Linux, add the server manually using the configuration below, or follow the manual install guide: Claude Code — add the remote server, then run /mcp in Claude Code, select unblocked, and log in via OAuth: ```bash claude mcp add -s user --transport http unblocked https://getunblocked.com/api/mcpsse ``` Cursor — open View: Open MCP Settings → Add Custom MCP, add the server, then click Connect to authenticate via OAuth: ```json { "mcpServers": { "unblocked": { "url": "https://getunblocked.com/api/mcpsse" } } } ``` Any MCP-compatible client (Windsurf, Codex, VS Code, Claude Desktop, and others) can connect to the remote server with OAuth: `https://getunblocked.com/api/mcpsse` ## Connect Slack to Claude Code, Cursor, and other AI agents To give Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Codex, or another MCP-compatible AI coding agent access to Slack context, connect Slack to Unblocked and add the single Unblocked MCP server to your agent. Unblocked acts as the MCP context layer for your Slack data, searching channels, threads, @mention Q&A alongside your other connected sources and returning cited results through these tools: - **`context_research`** — Multi-source research across your connected Slack channels and threads, plus your code, pull requests, and other connected sources. Returns a synthesized answer with citations back to the Slack message it used. - **`context_get_urls`** — Fetches the full content behind a Slack message URL your agent encounters — plus GitHub, Jira, Linear, Confluence, Notion, and more. ## Questions to ask an AI agent about Slack Questions you (or your agent) can ask Unblocked about your Slack data: - "What did the team decide about the rate-limit change in #engineering?" - "Who discussed the flaky deploy last week, and what was the resolution?" - "What was the context behind reverting the caching PR?" - "Where did we land on the API versioning debate?" ## Related integrations - [Microsoft Teams](https://getunblocked.com/integrations/microsoft-teams/) — Public and private channel conversations from Microsoft Teams — indexed with access permissions respected, with Q&A via @mention. - [Jira](https://getunblocked.com/integrations/jira/) — Issues and projects from Jira Cloud and Data Center — with sprint-aware answers that connect tickets to the code and PRs behind them. - [Confluence](https://getunblocked.com/integrations/confluence/) — Pages and blog posts from the Confluence spaces you select — including rendered macro content — indexed and cited in answers. - [GitHub](https://getunblocked.com/integrations/github/) — Repositories, pull requests, issues, discussions, and full code history — indexed, kept in sync on every push, and cited in answers. ## Get started with Unblocked - Start a free trial: - Pricing: - Documentation: - All integrations: