Too many Slack notifications? Let Claude Code handle it. In this video I'll show you how.
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You're getting too many Slack notifications. Let Cloud Code handle it. It will try to the messages about the bugs and questions you are tagged in and will suggest a reply.
Or if the fix is straightforward, it will fix the bug. Let's set it up. In short, you need to create a skill and set up relevant MCPs.
What is a skill? It's step-by-step instructions for Cloud written in a separate markdown file. Skill can either be triggered like a command or Cloud can automatically invoke the skill if the skill description matches the task.
You can create a skill MD by hand, but I'll ask Cloud to do it for me. Mind that it used here writing skill to write skills. It picked it up because that skill description matches the task I gave him.
MCP, model contest protocol, allows Cloud to do things beyond file system. You can think of it as an API that external services provide to Cloud. Let's test it.
Imagine someone tagged me in Slack. Now I can just trigger my new skill and provide a Slack URL to it and Cloud Code will fetch the message, investigate, and post a reply. I can schedule this to be run automatically every 10 minutes.
Now I'm offloaded, so I can focus on more important things. Happy Slacking.
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