Integration for Slack

Connect Codegen to your Slack workspace to enable seamless communication between agents and your team.

Click the button above to install Codegen in your Slack workspace

Capabilities & Functions

Codegen functions as a full-fledged software engineer that you can interact with directly through Slack. When responding to messages in Slack, Codegen can:

• Perform Research: Search the web for information, documentation, or solutions to problems.
• Manage Issues: Triage and update issues in Linear or GitHub based on your requests.
• Develop Code: Make code changes, improvements, or implement new features across your repositories.
• Create Pull Requests: Draft, review, and submit PRs with detailed descriptions and context.
• Provide Updates: Keep you informed about progress, blockers, or completion of tasks.
• Request Clarification: Ask for additional context or guidance when needed to complete a task effectively.
• Share Results: Deliver summaries, documentation, links to PRs, or explanations of changes made.

All of these capabilities are accessible through natural language interactions in your Slack workspace, allowing your team to leverage Codegen’s assistance without context switching between different platforms.

Installation

Add the Codegen integration for Slack to your workspace to enable agent communication.

Add Codegen to Slack

Install the Codegen integration for Slack from the Slack Marketplace and choose the channels it can access.

Configure channel access carefully to ensure agents communicate in the appropriate places.

Configuration Instructions

After installing the integration for Slack from the Slack Marketplace, follow these steps to configure it for your team:

Channel Setup

• Create a dedicated channel: We recommend creating a channel like #codegen for general agent interactions.
• Invite the Codegen bot: Type /invite @codegen in any channel where you want Codegen to participate.

Trigger Configuration

Codegen agents can be triggered in several ways:

• Direct mentions: Type @codegen followed by your request in any channel where the bot is present.
• Thread replies: Reply to a Codegen message in a thread to continue the conversation.
• Direct messages: Send a DM to the Codegen bot for private conversations.

Notification Settings

Configure which events trigger notifications in Slack:

1. Go to your Codegen Dashboard
2. Under “Notification Settings”, select which events should post to Slack:
   • PR creation and updates
   • Build failures
   • Deployment events
   • Agent task completions
3. Choose which channels should receive different types of notifications

Permission Management

For security, you can control which team members can interact with Codegen:

1. Go to your Codegen Dashboard
2. Under “Slack Permissions”, configure:
   • Which users can trigger agent actions
   • Which repositories can be accessed via Slack commands
   • What level of access is permitted (read-only, PR creation, etc.)

Message Response Behavior

Codegen responds to the following messages in Slack:

• Direct Messages:

  • Responds to any DM sent to the Codegen integration for Slack
  • Has visibility into previous messages in the conversation (not just threaded replies)
  • This provides a more natural conversation experience as many users don’t thread messages in DMs

• Channel Messages:

  • Responds to any message that @mentions Codegen in channels where the integration for Slack is installed
  • Only has visibility into the local context of the thread/conversation
  • Sending subsequent messages within a thread routes to the same agent
  • New messages in an active thread will interrupt the agent if it’s currently working

Data Privacy and Security

Message Content Handling:

• Third-Party LLM APIs: To provide its core functionality, Codegen shares message content with third-party Large Language Model (LLM) APIs, specifically OpenAI and Anthropic.
• Data Retention: Outside of the LLM API interactions, message content is retained by Codegen solely for the purpose of displaying it within the Codegen user interface.
• Metadata from Private Channels: When messages from private Slack channels are processed, Codegen does not expose private metadata, such as the original author’s name or username, in the Codegen web app.

User Permissions and Access Control:

Codegen’s actions on connected repositories are governed by the permissions of the user who initiated the interaction via Slack. The bot itself does not have independent permissions to repositories. Access to repositories and the ability to trigger actions are determined by the Codegen user’s authenticated account and their associated repository permissions. We recommend configuring channel access carefully during installation to ensure the Codegen integration for Slack is only present in channels where its use is appropriate.