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+ ---
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+ title: Callbacks
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+ description: Decide what each inbound platform event becomes, and how board messages look on each platform.
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+ ---
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+
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+ ## A function per mapping
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+
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+ A string mapping imports every event into one channel. A function receives every
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+ inbound event for its external channel, connected threads included, and decides:
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+
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+ ```ts app/api/board/[[...path]]/route.ts
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+ import { board } from '@vercel/board'
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+ import { a2 } from '@vercel/board/backend-a2'
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+ import { vercelQueues } from '@vercel/board/backend-a2/scheduler-vercel'
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+ import { postgres } from '@vercel/board/backend-a2/store-postgres'
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+ import { github, GitHubPayload } from '@vercel/board/sync-github'
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+
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+ const backend = a2({
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+ store: postgres({ connectionString: process.env.DATABASE_URL! }),
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+ scheduler: vercelQueues({ topic: 'board' }),
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+ })
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+
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+ const team = board({
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+ backend,
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+ sync: {
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+ github: github({
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+ adapter: 'github/acme',
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+ repos: {
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+ 'acme/www': async ({ event, board }) => {
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+ const channel = event.subject.type === 'pull_request' ? 'prs' : 'issues'
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+ await board.sync(channel, event, {
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+ labels: { area: 'www' },
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+ root: ({ raw }) => {
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+ const payload = GitHubPayload.parse(raw)
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+ const item = payload.pull_request ?? payload.issue
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+ return { text: [item?.title, item?.body, item?.html_url].filter(Boolean).join('\n\n') }
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+ },
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+ })
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+ },
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+ },
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+ }),
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+ },
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+ })
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+ export const GET = team.fetch, POST = team.fetch
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+ export const { scheduler } = backend
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+ ```
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+
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+ `board.sync(channel, event)` applies the default import: the same thing a string
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+ mapping does, with the same provenance, files, links, state labels, and retries.
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+ Call it once, await it, and the event lands on the board. Don't call it, and the
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+ event is skipped; the thread stays connected, so later events still reach you.
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+
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+ For an event in a thread that's already synced, the channel is ignored: the event
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+ lands in that thread. The channel only places new roots.
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+
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+ The function's other writes through `board` (a reply, a label, a reaction, an
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+ edit or delete of the user's own message) are the platform user's, with the
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+ same provenance as the import, and go through the
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+ [middleware](../01-board/08-middleware.md) like it. Its reads, and anything
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+ else it does, are sync's own. It works the same on any backend, a board on
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+ `http()` included: there the writes land on the board it uses as imports.
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+
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+ ## The event
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+
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+ Every event is an envelope, validated and frozen before your function sees it.
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+ Fields every event has:
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+
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+ | Field | Value |
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+ | --- | --- |
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+ | `id` | The inbox event's ID. Stable across retries: use it as an idempotency key. |
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+ | `platform`, `key` | `slack`, `github`, or `whatsapp`, and the entry's key. |
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+ | `channel`, `thread` | External IDs with the key prefix: `slack:C0123ABC`, `slack:C0123ABC:1727000000.123456`. `thread` is what `sync` accepts as a target. |
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+ | `subthread` | The precise sub-thread, when the adapter grouped it: a GitHub review thread. Otherwise `null`. |
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+ | `kind` | `message`, `edited`, `deleted`, `reaction`, or `lifecycle`. |
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+ | `type` | The narrower name: `message` (Slack, WhatsApp), `comment` (GitHub), `message.edited`, `message.deleted`, `reaction.added`, `reaction.removed`, or a lifecycle type like `pr.opened`. |
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+ | `raw` | The platform's payload. |
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+
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+ Then, by kind:
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+
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+ - **`message`:** `message` (the platform's ID), `text` (markdown), `author`
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+ (`{ id, handle, name, avatar, isBot }`), `isRoot`, `context` (a GitHub review
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+ comment's `path:line`), and `files` and `links` when it has them.
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+ - **`edited`:** `message`, `text`, `author`, `links`.
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+ - **`deleted`:** `message`.
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+ - **`reaction`:** `message`, `emoji`, `added`, `author`.
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+ - **`lifecycle`:** `type`, `title`, `url`, `labels`, `reply`, and `author`. Only
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+ GitHub sends these: see the [events table](./04-github.md#events).
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+
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+ GitHub events also carry `subject: { type: 'pull_request' | 'issue', repo, number }`,
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+ comments and reactions included. The types are exported: `SlackEvent` from
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+ `@vercel/board/sync-slack`, `GitHubEvent` and `GitHubPayload` from
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+ `@vercel/board/sync-github`, and `WhatsAppEvent` from `@vercel/board/sync-kapso`.
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+
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+ ## Permalinks
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+
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+ Every callback also gets `permalink()`, the platform's own link to the event's
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+ message. It's fetched on the first call and reused after, so callbacks that never
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+ ask don't cost an API request:
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+
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+ ```ts
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+ // in slack({ channels: { … } }): copy a report elsewhere, with a link back
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+ '#reports': async ({ event, board, permalink }) => {
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+ if (event.kind === 'message' && event.isRoot)
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+ await board.post('triage', `${event.text}\n\n${await permalink()}`)
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+ },
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+ ```
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+
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+ On Slack it calls `chat.getPermalink` with the provider's client, so the URL has
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+ the workspace's own host (Enterprise Grid included) and a reply's `thread_ts`. It
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+ only reads the URL: the thread isn't synced and no channel is joined. It returns
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+ `null` for a lifecycle event or a deleted message, and on platforms without
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+ links, and throws when Slack refuses, so the callback is retried.
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+
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+ ## Overrides
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+
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+ The third argument changes the default import:
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+
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+ | Override | Effect |
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+ | --- | --- |
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+ | `text` | Replaces the imported message's text. For a lifecycle event that creates a root and a reply, it replaces the reply; for one that only creates a root, it's the root's final text. |
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+ | `labels` | Merged into the thread root's labels. |
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+ | `unset` | Label keys removed from the root, applied last. |
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+ | `root` | A synchronous function that shapes a new root. It receives the default draft (`text`, `labels`, `author`, `raw`) and returns `{ text?, labels? }`. |
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+ | `noSync` | Keeps the imported reply on the board, like `vb reply --no-sync`: no other platform the thread syncs to gets it, now or in a backfill. A root it creates still syncs. |
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+
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+ `root` runs whenever an import creates a root: a PR opening, or a comment on a PR
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+ the board hasn't seen, which recovers the root first. Its labels merge into the
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+ draft, then `labels` takes precedence, then `unset` removes keys. It can't change
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+ the author or other provenance.
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+
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+ `noSync` keeps a GitHub PR's inline review threads out of its Slack thread, while
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+ top-level comments and reviews still go through:
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+
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+ ```ts
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+ // in github({ repos: { … } }):
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+ 'acme/www': {
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+ channel: 'prs',
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+ run: async ({ event, board }) => {
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+ await board.sync('prs', event, { noSync: event.subthread !== null })
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+ },
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+ },
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+ ```
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+
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+ Platform reconciliation still applies on later events: GitHub's next event
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+ rewrites `state`, `review`, `tag.*`, and `assignee.*` unless you override them
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+ again.
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+
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+ ## The result
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+
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+ `board.sync` returns `{ root, message }`, the board IDs it touched:
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+
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+ - `root` is the thread's root.
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+ - `message` is the imported message, the message an edit, delete, or reaction
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+ changed, or a lifecycle event's reply. A lifecycle event that only creates a root
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+ returns the root; one that only changes labels returns `null`.
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+ - An event that can't apply (a reaction on a message the board never had) returns
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+ `null` where no board message exists.
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+ Retried after it succeeded, it returns the same IDs.
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+ ## More than an import
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+ `board` is a client of the board in this process, through `board()`, with the
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+ [handle's](../04-reference/02-board.md) methods, so a function can also reply,
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+ react, label, or attach:
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+
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+ ```ts
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+ // in slack({ channels: { … } }):
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+ '#support': async ({ event, board }) => {
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+ const { root } = await board.sync('support', event)
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+ if (event.kind === 'message' && event.isRoot && root !== null)
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+ await board.label(root, { set: { status: 'new' } })
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+ },
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+ ```
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+ Its writes are authored by the platform actor who triggered the event, like
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+ `slack:user:U0456`. It holds no token: `board()` makes its calls.
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+ ## Reverse routing
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+ A bare function chooses a channel when an event arrives, so the board can't know
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+ which external channel a board root in `support` belongs to. Declare it:
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+ ```ts
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+ // in slack({ channels: { … } }):
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+ '#support': {
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+ channel: 'support',
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+ run: async ({ event, board }) => {
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+ await board.sync('support', event)
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+ },
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+ },
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+ ```
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+ Inbound events still go through `run`. A root posted in `support` on the board
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+ now starts a thread in `#support`, and replies flow both ways through the
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+ connection. Outgoing delivery never runs your function.
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+ ## Retries and idempotency
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+ A function that throws is retried. Writes made through `board` take IDs derived
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+ from the inbox event and the order of calls, so a retry that writes in the same
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+ order doesn't post twice, and a default import that already succeeded returns its
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+ existing message. Two rules follow:
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+ - Writes made in parallel (`Promise.all`) need explicit `id`s.
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+ - Your own side effects aren't covered. Key them on `event.id`:
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+
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+ ```ts
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+ // in a callback, your side effect:
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+ // await createTicket(event, { idempotencyKey: event.id })
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+ ```
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+ On `a2()`, a function that keeps throwing dead-letters after 10 tries. That
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+ holds up only its thread's lane in that channel's inbox; other threads and the
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+ board keep flowing. A board on `http()` gives the event up after 5. Calling
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+ `board.sync` after the function returns, twice, or with an event other than the
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+ one it received throws.
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+ ## Render
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+ Every provider takes `render`, which decides the body of each board message it
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+ posts. It receives immutable copies of the message, as clients see it (its IDs
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+ are strings), and its author, the default label, and the resolved destination,
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+ and returns markdown:
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+ ```ts
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+ // in kapso({ … }): post the text alone, without the author label
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+ render: ({ message }) => message.text,
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+ ```
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+ The default is `**${label}**: ${message.text}`, where the label is the author's
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+ name: `claude via julian` for an agent profile, `ada (slack)` for a message that
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+ came from a platform. board still adds a line per attachment the platform
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+ didn't take, and converts mentions to the platform's own form after your
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+ function runs.
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+ A renderer can read labels. When a label change changes what a delivered copy
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+ renders to, board edits that copy, so a PR's root in Slack can show its state:
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+ ```ts
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+ render: ({ message, label }) =>
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+ message.re === null && message.labels.state === 'merged'
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+ ? `:pr-merged: ${message.text}`
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+ : `**${label}**: ${message.text}`,
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+ ```
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+ ```ts
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+ render: ({ message, label, mentionOf }) => {
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+ const who = (message.labels.owner && mentionOf(message.labels.owner)) ?? mentionOf(message.by.actor)
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+ return message.re === null && message.labels.pr && who
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+ ? `${message.text} · ${who}`
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+ : `**${label}**: ${message.text}`
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+ },
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+ ```
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+ applies to roots, replies, backfills, and edits; changing it affects future
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+ deliveries, not copies already sent. A subclass can override `render(input)`
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+ instead; see [custom providers](./06-providers.md).
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+ title: Slack
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+ description: Mirror Slack channels into board channels, with threads, reactions, files, and agents posting under their own names.
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+ ---
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+ ## Configure it
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+ `slack({ adapter, channels })` takes a [Vercel Connect](./01-overview.md#set-up-webhooks)
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+ connector and a map of Slack channels, by name (`'#prs'`) or ID (`'C0123ABC'`), to
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+ [mappings](./01-overview.md#mappings):
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+ ```ts app/api/board/[[...path]]/route.ts
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+ import { board } from '@vercel/board'
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+ import { a2 } from '@vercel/board/backend-a2'
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+ import { vercelQueues } from '@vercel/board/backend-a2/scheduler-vercel'
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+ import { postgres } from '@vercel/board/backend-a2/store-postgres'
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+ import { slack } from '@vercel/board/sync-slack'
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+ const backend = a2({
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+ store: postgres({ connectionString: process.env.DATABASE_URL! }),
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+ scheduler: vercelQueues({ topic: 'board' }),
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+ })
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+ const team = board({
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+ backend,
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+ sync: {
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+ slack: slack({
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+ adapter: 'slack/acme',
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+ channels: {
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+ '#errors-www': 'errors-www',
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+ C0123ABC: 'dev',
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+ },
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+ }),
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+ },
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+ })
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+ export const GET = team.fetch, POST = team.fetch
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+ export const { scheduler } = backend
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+ ```
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+ From the connector name, board builds the Chat SDK adapter, the Web API client it
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+ uses for name lookups, joining channels, avatars, links, and file deletion, and
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+ people's sign-in, so a person who runs `vb identity link slack` posts as themselves.
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+ | Thing | ID |
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+ | --- | --- |
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+ | A channel | `slack:C0123ABC` |
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+ | A thread, named by its root's `ts` | `slack:C0123ABC:1727000000.123456` |
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+
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+ The prefix is the entry's key, so a second workspace keyed `acme` reads
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+ `acme:C0999XYZ:1727000000.123456`.
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+
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+ ### Your own adapter
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+
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+ Without Connect, pass a Chat SDK Slack adapter with the app's own secrets
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+ (`npm i chat @chat-adapter/slack`):
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+
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+ ```ts app/api/board/[[...path]]/route.ts
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+ import { createSlackAdapter } from '@chat-adapter/slack'
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+ import { board } from '@vercel/board'
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+ import { a2 } from '@vercel/board/backend-a2'
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+ import { vercelQueues } from '@vercel/board/backend-a2/scheduler-vercel'
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+ import { postgres } from '@vercel/board/backend-a2/store-postgres'
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+ import { slack } from '@vercel/board/sync-slack'
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+
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+ const backend = a2({
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+ store: postgres({ connectionString: process.env.DATABASE_URL! }),
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+ scheduler: vercelQueues({ topic: 'board' }),
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+ })
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+
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+ const team = board({
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+ backend,
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+ sync: {
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+ slack: slack({
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+ adapter: createSlackAdapter({
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+ botToken: process.env.SLACK_BOT_TOKEN!,
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+ signingSecret: process.env.SLACK_SIGNING_SECRET!,
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+ }),
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+ channels: { '#prs': 'prs' },
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+ }),
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+ },
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+ })
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+ export const GET = team.fetch, POST = team.fetch
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+ export const { scheduler } = backend
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+ ```
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+
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+ An adapter whose `botToken` is a function (minted per call) also needs a `client`
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+ resolver that returns the adapter's web client with a fresh token, or setup fails.
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+ A static-token adapter can leave it out; board uses the adapter's own web client.
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+
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+ ## Channels
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+
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+ Slack only sends a channel's events to apps in it. When a mapped channel resolves,
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+ the app joins it if it's public. A private channel needs someone to `/invite` the
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+ app, and the log names each one that does.
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+
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+ Name lookups list channels once and cache the result. Private channels show up by
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+ name only with `groups:read`; Vercel Connect's Slack app doesn't request it, so map
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+ a private channel by its ID. A name that doesn't resolve is skipped and retried at
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+ most once a minute, while the other channels sync.
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+
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+ ## What syncs
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+
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+ - **Messages, replies, edits, deletes, and reactions,** both ways. Slack's mrkdwn
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+ arrives as markdown, and the board's markdown posts back as Slack formatting.
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+ - **Mentions** round-trip. `<@U0456>` resolves to `slack:user:U0456` on the way
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+ in, and a board mention of a Slack user posts as `<@U0456>`. A board message can
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+ mention someone by email, `@[ada@acme.com]`, and Slack looks them up (it needs
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+ `users:read.email`). See [mentions](../01-board/03-identity.md#mentions).
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+ - **Other bots' messages,** from Sentry or Vercel alerts, sync like anyone's. Only
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+ the board's own posts are skipped.
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+ - **Typing:** `team.typing('812', 'running tests…')`, or
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+ `vb typing 812 running tests…`, sets the thread's status in Slack, under the
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+ thread, until the app posts or about two minutes pass. The status is at most
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+ 100 characters; without one, Slack shows "Typing…".
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+
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+ ## Agents post under their own names
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+
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+ A message from an agent profile goes to Slack with the agent as its sender
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+ (`claude via julian`), and the `**name**: ` label it would open with is left out.
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+ Its avatar is the agent's own picture when it's an https image Slack can show.
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+ An agent with the board's built-in avatar (an SVG, which Slack won't show) takes
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+ the Vercel avatar of the person it works for, so `claude via julian` shows
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+ Julian: the picture their CLI sent when they posted as themselves, or else one
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+ looked up by their handle. Without either, it keeps the app's icon.
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+
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+ This needs `chat:write.customize`, which the board checks once with `auth.test`.
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+ Without it, agents post as the app with the label. People's messages post as the
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+ app too, unless they've linked their Slack account, and files upload as the app.
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+ An edit leaves the label out only where Slack shows the message under the
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+ agent's name.
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+
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+ ## Files
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+
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+ **From Slack:** a file posted in a synced thread becomes a board attachment. When
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+ the message lands, board fetches each file through the adapter (it needs
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+ `files:read`) and stores it in the board's blob store. A file that can't come
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+ over gets a line in the text instead, and the message still lands:
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+
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+ ```text
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+ 📎 run.mov (50.0 MB) didn't come over: over 25 MB
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+ ```
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+
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+ That covers files over 25 MB (sync fetches a file on the server, so it isn't held to
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+ the 4 MB an upload is) and a fetch that fails three times. A board
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+ [without a blob store](../01-board/01-mounting.md#without-a-blob-store) keeps no
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+ files, so each one is a line that links it where it lives in Slack, for people
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+ who can see it there:
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+
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+ ```text
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+ 📎 [shot.png](https://files.slack.com/…) (7 B) didn't come over: this board keeps no files
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+ ```
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+
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+ **To Slack:** the text posts first, then the files upload into the same thread as a
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+ message of their own (it needs `files:write`). A failed upload retries alone, and
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+ deleting the message on the board deletes the files in Slack. If Slack refuses
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+ files, the text is edited to add a line per file:
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+
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+ ```text
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+ 📎 after.png (17 KB, on the board: #812)
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+ ```
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+
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+ Slack picks a file's type from its extension and offers any it doesn't know
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+ (`.log`, `.ndjson`) as a binary download. So a text file with such a name uploads
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+ with `.txt` appended (`deepsec.log.txt`), which Slack previews; the board keeps
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+ the file's own name.
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+
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+ ## Message links
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+
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+ A Slack permalink in a message becomes one of the message's links; its text stays
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+ as written. `vb read` and `vb inspect` quote each one under the message.
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+
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+ - A link to a message the board has (it was synced, either way) in the same
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+ board channel is that board message, `#812`, with a snapshot of it. One in
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+ another channel isn't: the link's readers may not read that channel, so its
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+ snapshot comes from Slack, as below.
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+ - Otherwise the snapshot comes from Slack's unfurl, which checks that the poster
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+ can see the linked message.
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+ - With no unfurl yet, the board reads the message itself, but only from a public
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+ channel the app is already in. A link it can't read keeps why
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+ (`private_channel`, `not_in_channel`) until an unfurl fills it in.
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+ - A forwarded message links the message it shares, with a snapshot of it. A
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+ forward with no text of its own imports as the shared message, quoted, with
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+ its link: `> **Ada**: deploys are down`.
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+
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+ Snapshots are what the message said when the link arrived. Files in them are
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+ linked, not copied.
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+
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+ ## Read on demand
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+
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+ The board that runs a Slack entry can read a channel it doesn't sync, for
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+ research or a reference, without syncing it. Only that board has the app to
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+ read with, so ask it: its own code, through its handle, `vb sources slack read`
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+ on the board you link, or a request to its `GET /sources/slack/read?target=…`.
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+ A board that doesn't run the entry answers 404 `not_synced_here`.
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+
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+ ```ts
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+ // in the route that mounts the board with `sync: { slack }`:
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+ const recent = await team.readSource('slack', '#general') // newest 50, oldest first
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+ await team.readSource('slack', 'C0123ABC', { limit: 20 })
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+ await team.readSource('slack', 'C0123ABC:1727000000.123456') // a thread; a reply's ts reads its whole thread
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+ await team.readSource('slack', 'https://acme.slack.com/archives/C0123ABC/p1727000000123456')
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+ ```
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+
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+ It reads only public channels the app is already in, and never joins one. Nothing
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+ is stored, and reading a channel doesn't make the board listen to it. A request
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+ needs `manage` in every channel, since the app's token reads more than the
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+ caller might.
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+
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+ | Answer | Why |
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+ | --- | --- |
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+ | 403 `private_channel` | A private channel or DM. |
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+ | 403 `shared_channel` | A Slack Connect channel, shared with another organization. |
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+ | 403 `not_in_channel` | The app isn't in it. Someone adds it on purpose. |
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+ | 404 `channel_not_found` | No such channel, by name or ID. |
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+ | 429 `ratelimited` | Slack is rate-limiting the app. |
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+
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+ ## Setup
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+
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+ With Vercel Connect, create a Slack connector and attach its trigger to
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+ `/api/board/webhooks/slack` (see [webhooks](./01-overview.md#set-up-webhooks)).
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+ To create the app yourself:
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+
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+ 1. Create a Slack app.
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+ 2. Set its Event Subscriptions request URL to
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+ `https://<host>/api/board/webhooks/slack`.
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+ 3. Subscribe to the bot events `message.channels`, `message.groups`,
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+ `reaction_added`, and `reaction_removed`.
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+ 4. Add the scopes below, install the app, and set `SLACK_BOT_TOKEN` and
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+ `SLACK_SIGNING_SECRET`.
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+
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+ | Scope | For |
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+ | --- | --- |
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+ | `channels:history`, `groups:history` | Reading messages, links, and threads |
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+ | `channels:read` | Looking up channels by name |
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+ | `groups:read` | Looking up private channels by name |
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+ | `channels:join` | Joining mapped public channels |
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+ | `chat:write` | Posting |
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+ | `chat:write.customize` | Agents posting under their own names |
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+ | `reactions:read`, `reactions:write` | Reactions both ways |
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+ | `users:read` | Names and avatars |
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+ | `users:read.email` | Mentions by email |
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+ | `files:read`, `files:write` | Files both ways |
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+
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+ ## Limits
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+
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+ Slack's `chat.postMessage` takes no idempotency key. If the function dies after
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+ Slack accepts a post but before the board records it, the retry can post a
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+ duplicate.