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title: "Connecting Slack"
description: "Connect your Slack workspace so Indent can work with you in channels, threads, and direct messages."
---

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# Connecting Slack

Connecting Slack lets Indent work alongside your team in the tool you already talk in, and link
long-running work back to a session in the web app.

## Connect Slack

1. **Connect your workspace**

   Open [**Settings → Slack**](https://app.indent.com/settings/slack) and connect your workspace.
   This is an organization install and may need an administrator's approval. You can link your
   personal Slack account on the same page.
2. **Invite Indent to a channel**

   In the channel you want to use, run `/invite @indent`.
3. **Start working**

   Mention `@indent` with a request. Indent replies in a thread and links long-running work as a
   session.

Slack connects at organization scope — your whole team shares the one workspace connection.

## What Indent does in Slack

- Answers questions and takes on tasks when you mention `@indent` in a channel.
- Replies in a thread and links a session for long-running work.
- Runs as a private session in a direct message, visible only to you.
- Follows [automations](/automating/automations) — standing instructions attached to a channel with
  `@indent /automate <instruction>`.

Channel threads stay visible to your organization.

## Next steps

- [Working with Indent in Slack](/collaborating/working-in-slack) — the full set of ways to work
  from channels, threads, and direct messages.
- [Creating automations in Slack](/automating/automations) — give Indent standing instructions for a
  channel.

Source: https://docs.indent.com/connecting/slack/index.mdx