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agentic-slackbot

Created By
John-Lin2 years ago
An agentic Slack bot with MCP support.
Content

agentic-slackbot

A simple Slack bot that uses the OpenAI Agents SDK to interact with the Model Context Protocol (MCP) server.

Install Dependencies

uv sync

Environment Variables

Create a .envrc file in the root directory of the project and add the following environment variables:

export OPENAI_API_KEY=""
export SLACK_BOT_TOKEN=""
export SLACK_APP_TOKEN=""
export OPENAI_MODEL="gpt-4o"
export HTTP_PROXY=""

If you are using Azure OpenAI, you can set the following environment variables instead:

AZURE_OPENAI_API_KEY=""
AZURE_OPENAI_ENDPOINT="https://<myopenai>.azure.com/"
OPENAI_MODEL="gpt-4o"
OPENAI_API_VERSION="2025-03-01-preview"

If you are using Langfuse

export LANGFUSE_PUBLIC_KEY="xxx"
export LANGFUSE_SECRET_KEY="xxx"
export LANGFUSE_HOST="xxx"

Running the Bot

uv run bot

Running the bot in docker

# Build the Docker image
docker build . -t agentic-slackbot

# Run the Docker container
docker run -e SLACK_BOT_TOKEN="" \
    -e SLACK_APP_TOKEN="" \
    -e HTTP_PROXY="" \
    -e OPENAI_PROXY_BASE_URL="" \
    -e OPENAI_PROXY_API_KEY="" \
    -e OPENAI_MODEL=gpt-4o \
    -e FIRECRAWL_API_URL="" slackbot

Credit

This project is based on the sooperset/mcp-client-slackbot example.

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