Slack MCP
Community Slack MCP server — 1.8K stars for channel and message access.
About
Slack MCP (korotovsky/slack-mcp-server, 1,864 stars, MIT) is the popular community MCP server for Slack: read channels, post messages, manage threads — the bridge for agents that live in Slack.
Pushed Jul 2026. Community (not official Slack) — for production, review the code and permissions. The official Slack MCP is newer; evaluate both.
What it can do
- • Read channels and threads\n• Post messages\n• User lookup\n• Community maintained
Setup
- Install via npm.\n2. Set
SLACK_BOT_TOKEN.\n3. Add to MCP client.
Prerequisites
A Slack workspace; a bot token with scopes.
Use cases
Works with
Trust score — 7/10
Scored 7/10 (metrics tier). Popular community Slack MCP (1.8K stars, MIT) with decent maintenance. Docked three points: (1) community, not official; (2) bot tokens are sensitive — scope carefully; (3) official Slack MCP exists. Review before production.
★ 1,864 GitHub stars
How the trust score is built
Full methodology →- Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
- 6.4/10
- Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
- 6.0/10
- Openness · license + docs
- 9.1/10
- Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
- 6.0/10
- · 1,864 GitHub stars (log-scaled vs catalog peers)
- · last push 89d ago; 5 releases/12mo; 83 open issues
- · manual review: community not official; tokens sensitive; official Slack MCP exists; license: MIT
Sources
Every fact above was checked against these sources. Where a claim comes from the provider and couldn't be independently verified, the text says so.