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channels-setup — Claude Code skill: connect your agent to Slack

A skill to build your first CopilotKit Channels agent and connect it to Slack or Microsoft Teams. Walks through the entire path: from project setup to a working agent that replies to mentions in chat.

Install into Claude Code · Skills CLI (Vercel) All methods and platforms ↓ 
npx skills add CopilotKit/CopilotKit --skill channels-setup -a claude-code
Open on GitHub

What channels-setup does

channels-setup runs an interactive graph that guides you through every step. It inspects or scaffolds your project, builds the AG-UI agent, creates a managed Channel via the CopilotKit CLI, and starts the long-running host. Once it's done, your agent is ready to answer mentions in Slack or Teams.

Everything happens through one command: npx --yes copilotkit@latest onboard start. The skill itself doesn't contain written steps — it starts a graph that asks its own questions and prevents you from skipping or redoing parts. That matters: manual setup often looks complete but doesn't work.

The skill runs on the CopilotKit CLI and may ask for a session token when needed. If the command fails, the skill stops and shows the error — don't try to improvise the workflow.

What it helps with

  • connect an agent to Slack or Teams from scratch
  • set up your first CopilotKit Channels agent
  • start a long-running host for your chat bot
  • verify your agent replies to channel mentions

Example prompts for the agent

  • install channels-setup and connect my agent to Slack
  • set up a channel for my CopilotKit agent in Teams
  • run the full channels-setup workflow for my project

How to install channels-setup

1Skills CLI (Vercel)

npx skills add CopilotKit/CopilotKit --skill channels-setup -a claude-code

2Manually: put the files in place

~/.claude/skills/channels-setup/SKILL.md

Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/channels-setup/

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Questions about channels-setup

How do I install channels-setup in Claude Code?

Run npx skills add CopilotKit/CopilotKit --skill channels-setup -a claude-code. The skill will appear at ~/.claude/skills/channels-setup/SKILL.md.

What does channels-setup do?

It runs an interactive graph that guides you through building a CopilotKit agent in Slack or Teams: from checking your project to starting the host and proving your agent replies to a mention.

What should I do if the `npx --yes copilotkit@latest onboard start` command fails?

Stop and show the error. Don't try to recreate the workflow by hand — the graph updates, and it's better to run it again.

Source text

SKILL.md · MIT 
---
name: channels-setup
description: >
  Use when a developer wants to build their first CopilotKit Channels agent and
  get it answering in Slack or Microsoft Teams: "set up a channel", "connect my
  agent to Slack", "get my agent into Teams", or starting from nothing and
  wanting a working channel end to end. Covers the whole path: inspecting or
  scaffolding the project, building the AG-UI agent, creating and reconciling
  the managed Channel with the public CopilotKit CLI, running the long-running
  host, and proving a real provider mention gets a reply. The workflow is not in
  this file. Run `npx --yes copilotkit@latest onboard start` and follow the
  graph it prints.
version: 1.0.0
---

# Set up a CopilotKit Channel

The workflow is **not written down here**. Run this command:

```bash
npx --yes copilotkit@latest onboard start
```

Then follow the graph it prints, start to finish.

If the command asks for a CopilotKit CLI session check, you have permission to
run it. Never reveal credentials.

## Do this

1. Run `npx --yes copilotkit@latest onboard start`.
2. Follow the graph it prints, start to finish.

The graph asks for its own inputs. Do not pre-empt those questions. Do not
substitute remembered channel-setup steps for what the graph says. Remembered
steps are the reason this file is a pointer.

## If the command fails

Stop. Tell the user the command failed. Show them the output. Ask them to retry.

Do not improvise the workflow from memory. It spans the CopilotKit CLI, a
managed Channel, provider setup the user does in Slack or Azure, and a
long-running runtime host. A half-remembered version produces a project that
installs cleanly and answers nothing. That is the most expensive failure
available here. It looks finished.

© CopilotKit · MIT · CopilotKit/CopilotKit

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