Connecting Slack Guide

Connecting Slack lets your Praxivara assistant and agents work directly in your Slack workspace — for example, posting updates, sending messages, and reading channel activity you allow them to see. This guide walks you through connecting Slack through its install and authorize screen.

Before you begin

You will complete the connection from inside Slack's own install screen, so you'll need to be signed in to the Slack workspace you want to connect. If your workspace requires an administrator to approve new apps, have that approval ready or ask an admin to complete the connection.

Note: Your Slack connection is private to you and scoped to your workspace in Praxivara. Other members of your team don't gain access to it.

Connect your Slack workspace

1. Open the Integrations page in Praxivara.
2. Search for Slack or filter to the Team Chat category, then open the Slack card.
3. Select Connect. Slack's install and authorize screen opens in a popup window.
4. Confirm the correct Slack workspace is selected at the top of the screen. If it's the wrong one, switch to the workspace you want to connect.
5. Review the permissions Slack asks for, then select Allow to authorize the connection.
6. The popup closes and returns you to Praxivara. Slack now shows as Connected on its card.

Tip: If nothing happens when you select Connect, check that your browser isn't blocking popups for Praxivara, then try again.

Choose which actions your assistant can perform

When you connect Slack, you decide exactly which actions your assistant is allowed to take. Actions appear as a checklist so you can grant only what you're comfortable with.

1. Review the list of available Slack actions.
2. Use Select all to enable everything, or check only the specific actions you want to allow.
3. Save your selections to finish.

You can change this at any time. Open the Slack connection and choose Manage actions to add or remove enabled actions later.

If your assistant ever reports that a specific action "is not enabled," open Manage actions and turn that action on.

Confirm the connection is working

Return to the Integrations page and check that Slack shows as Connected. From there you can:

• Ask your assistant in chat to perform a Slack action you enabled — for example, posting a short message to a channel.
• Use Slack actions inside your agents so they can act in Slack automatically as part of a workflow.

Troubleshooting

"This connection link expired — try again"

The authorize screen was left open too long before finishing. Close the popup, select Connect again, and complete the steps without pausing.

The wrong workspace was connected

If you authorized the wrong Slack workspace, disconnect Slack from its card in Praxivara, then reconnect and choose the correct workspace on Slack's install screen.

Slack didn't let you authorize

Some workspaces require an administrator to approve new apps. If you couldn't complete the authorize step, ask a Slack workspace admin to approve the app or to complete the connection for you.

Nothing works after connecting

If Slack shows as Connected but your assistant can't do anything in it, you may have left all actions unchecked. Open the connection, choose Manage actions, and enable the actions you need.

Managing your connection over time

From the Slack card you can adjust which actions are enabled, reconnect if the connection needs to be refreshed, or disconnect Slack entirely. Reconnecting is useful if Slack ever stops responding to your assistant's requests — it re-establishes the authorization without changing your other settings.