Claude DesktopSlack MCP Server (Composio or self-hosted e.g. GitHub slack-mcp-server)Node.jsSlack API tokensintermediate30 min

Slack MCP Server + Claude Desktop setup

Real-time AI agent access to Slack workspace for reading/summarizing/posting messages in Claude prompts.

Prerequisites

  • →Claude Desktop app
  • →Node.js
  • →Slack workspace access
  • →for self-hosted: Go/Node runtime
  • →Slack tokens (xoxc/xoxd or bot token).

Further reading