You can learn more about the Slack integration here.
Add the ‘Slack - Send Message’ Tool step to your Tool
- Creating a new Tool, then searching for the ‘Slack: Send Message’ Tool step
- Click ‘Expand’ to see the full Tool step
- Select the Slack channel you want to send the message to
- Add your message in the ‘Message’ field
- Click ‘Run step’ to test out your Tool step
Outputs
After the message is sent, this Tool step returns two values you can reference in later steps:
Wire these outputs into a subsequent Slack - Update Message step to edit the same message in place — for example, to show progress as a multi-step task completes.
Example: updating a progress checklist
Example: updating a progress checklist
This pattern sends one status message at the start of a run, then edits it as each task completes.Send Message step — posts the initial checklist:
- Message:
Task progress:\n⬜ Step 1\n⬜ Step 2\n⬜ Step 3 - Outputs:
tsandchannelare saved for use in later steps
- Channel: reference the
channeloutput from the Send Message step - Timestamp: reference the
tsoutput from the Send Message step - Text:
Task progress:\n✅ Step 1\n⬜ Step 2\n⬜ Step 3
- Text:
Task progress:\n✅ Step 1\n✅ Step 2\n⬜ Step 3

