Key takeaways
- Your own Slack account and the Pebbles bot are separate connections with different reach.
- With your account, the assistants act as you; with the bot, they act as the bot in the channels it was added to.
- Every Slack write is an approval action that follows the execution mode.
- The bot is a grant for the assistants only: you cannot chat with Pebbles Ai from Slack.
How do the two Slack connections differ
The two Slack connections differ in who connects them, whose name a post carries and which channels the assistants can reach. Pick by the job: your own account for work you would do yourself, the bot for shared updates that should not come from one person.
How do you post to Slack with AI
You post to Slack with AI by asking in an assistant chat for the message and the channel, then approving the post in Manual mode. There the approval card shows the channel and the text before anything appears in Slack, which is where you catch the wrong channel.
Good candidates are posts that collect facts from elsewhere in Pebbles Ai: a won-deal note built from the email thread, a summary of this week's new leads, or a heads-up to marketing about an account that replied. Ask for Slack's tone, short and skimmable, rather than an email pasted into a channel.
Can the assistant write an AI Slack summary of a channel
Yes, the assistant can read and search a channel's messages, threads and files and summarise them in the chat. With your own account it reaches what your account can see; with the bot it reaches only the channels the bot was added to.
Reading changes nothing in Slack, so a summary needs no approval. Posting that summary back into a channel is a write, and it follows your execution mode like any other post.
Can you work with Pebbles Ai from inside Slack
No, you cannot chat with the assistants from Slack. The Pebbles bot lets the assistants reach the conversations it was added to; it does not answer messages, take commands or start work when someone mentions it.
All requests start in the Pebbles Ai app. If a teammate wants something from an assistant, they open a chat there, and the result can be posted back to Slack as a write that follows your execution mode.
Which channels should an admin add the bot to
An admin should add the bot only to the channels where shared assistant posts make sense, such as a deal-wins channel or a pipeline-updates channel. The bot sees nothing outside those channels, so the choice also sets what the assistants can read as the bot.
Leave HR, finance and private leadership channels out. A short list of channels, reviewed when your team's channel setup changes, keeps the bot useful and its reach easy to explain.
How to set up Slack for the assistants
Members connect their own accounts; an admin handles the bot once for the workspace.
- Open Settings, Connections and connect Slack under Workspace tools with your own Slack account.
- If you are an admin and want shared posts, connect the Pebbles bot and add it to the channels you choose in Slack.
- In an assistant chat, ask for a summary of one channel to check what the assistant can read.
- Ask for a post with the channel named, and check the channel and text on the approval card before approving.
Your Slack account and the Pebbles bot
What changes between the two Slack connections in Settings, Connections, Workspace tools.
| Your own Slack account | The Pebbles bot | |
|---|---|---|
| Who connects it | Any user, for themselves | An admin, for the workspace |
| What the assistants reach | Channels, threads and files your account can see | Only the channels the bot is added to |
| Posts appear as | You | The bot |
| What the assistants can do | Read, search, post, edit and react | Read, search and post |
| Approvals | Every write follows the execution mode | Every write follows the execution mode |
Where Pebbles Ai fits
Common questions
Can a Slack bot post sales updates for the whole team?
Yes. Once an admin adds the Pebbles bot to a channel, the assistants can post there as the bot, each post approved under the execution mode.
Does disconnecting Slack remove access inside Slack?
Disconnecting removes the stored credentials in Pebbles Ai but does not revoke the grant in Slack; remove the app in Slack as well if you want it gone there.
Can the assistants edit my Slack messages?
Yes, with your own Slack account connected they can edit messages and add reactions as you. Each change is a write that follows your execution mode.
About this page. Written by the Pebbles Ai team for people who run sales, marketing and growth. Last updated .
