The Slack MCP Server provides tools for Claude and other AI models to interact with Slack workspaces through the Model Context Protocol, supporting multiple transport types (Stdio, SSE, HTTP) and authentication modes (OAuth or stealth). It offers capabilities including fetching channel and direct message history with smart pagination, searching messages across channels and threads, retrieving unread messages with priority sorting, posting messages (with safety controls), and accessing user/channel information with caching. The server solves the problem of enabling AI assistants to read and analyze Slack conversations, search message history, and post responses while maintaining security through configurable permissions and optional stealth mode operation without bot installations.
claude mcp add --transport stdio korotovsky-slack-mcp-server uvx slack-mcp-server