Slack CLI

Slack CLI is Slack's official command-line tool for building and operating Slack platform apps. It covers local development, deployment, app installation, triggers, collaborators, environment variables, and datastore access for Slack app projects.

• Create or initialize Slack app projects, run a local dev server with file watching, and deploy app changes to the Slack Platform.
• Install, uninstall, link, and delete apps; manage collaborators, triggers, external auth providers, and environment variables tied to a project.
• Inspect app activity logs and read or query app datastore records, including JSON or JSON Lines output for datastore retrieval workflows.

• Global --team, --app, and --token flags make deploy and maintenance commands usable in scripts or CI once credentials are in place.
• Machine-readable output is real but narrow: datastore get, bulk-get, and query support --output json, and query exports can be written as JSON Lines.
• Best for agents that own Slack app build or deploy workflows; it is a weaker fit for general Slack administration because many commands are project-scoped and some flows still rely on prompts or Slack-mediated auth.

• Initial authorization often requires a slash-command ticket and challenge-code flow inside Slack, so unattended setup needs a pre-created service token.
• Several commands are limited to apps on Slack managed infrastructure, and much of the CLI still renders human-focused output instead of structured JSON.