Slack Integration

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Overview

The Slack integration puts Sight AI’s agent — a bot named Sight — right inside your workspace. Once connected, your team can:

• @mention Sight in any channel it’s in, or DM it directly, to ask about SEO, content, keywords, rankings, and analytics
• Approve or decline actions (like generating an article or syncing to your CMS) with Approve / Decline buttons — no need to switch to the app
• Get automation run summaries posted to channels you choose
• Receive proactive digests and nudges about your sites
• See an App Home tab that explains what Sight can do

Connect at Integrations → Slack (app.trysight.ai/integrations/slack).

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Setup

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Talking to Sight

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@mention in a channel

Mention the bot in any channel it has joined — e.g. “@Sight what’s our top query this week?” Sight replies in-thread, adds a ⏳ reaction while it works, and posts a short, task-specific “on it” line that restates what you asked (then updates with progress before settling into the final answer). When it’s done, the reaction flips to ✅ (or ❌ if something went wrong). It uses the thread’s recent history as context.

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Thread follow-ups — no re-mention needed

Once Sight is part of a thread (you mentioned it, or it replied there), you can keep talking to it without tagging it again — “yes, break that down by page” just works. Sight reads each new reply in the thread and decides whether it’s addressed to it:

• Replies that continue the conversation with Sight (answering its question, follow-up asks, new instructions) get a response.
• Replies aimed at other people — side conversation, or messages @mentioning a teammate — are left alone.
• If it’s ambiguous, Sight stays quiet. An explicit @mention always gets a response, so tag it whenever you want to be sure.

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Direct message

DM the bot to have a private conversation — handy for quick questions that don’t belong in a shared channel. DMs use your recent DM history as context and answer about your default site for DMs (or your only accessible site).

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Slash commands

Run /sight in any channel the bot is in for quick controls (replies are visible only to you):

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Channel awareness

When Sight is added to a channel, it reads through the recent conversation to get caught up, and it keeps passively following the channel — so it has context on team discussion it was never @mentioned in. Ask things like “what did the team decide about the blog migration?” and Sight can recall channel discussion via its conversation memory. Use /sight capture off to stop reading a channel, or /sight capture purge to wipe what it learned.

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App Home tab

Open Sight’s Home tab in Slack for a quick orientation: what it can help with, example questions, and a Manage Slack settings button. Opening the App Home tab doesn’t use any AI credits.

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What Sight can do for whom

Sight is a full agent, but what each person can do depends on whether their Slack identity is linked to a Sight AI account: Sight links your Slack identity to your Sight AI account automatically by matching your Slack email to a Sight AI team member. If your email isn’t on the team, Sight stays read-only for you.

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Approving actions

When a linked member asks Sight to do something that changes data, it never runs it silently. Instead, Sight posts a card with Approve and Decline buttons and a summary of what it will do:

• Approve → Sight runs the action as you and posts the result in-thread.
• Decline → nothing happens; the card updates to “Declined.”
• Only linked team members can approve or decline; the card ignores taps from unlinked users.
• Approval cards expire after 24 hours — just ask again if one lapses.

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Progressive autonomy (auto-run)

After you approve the same kind of action on the same site 3 times, Sight offers a “Yes, auto-run it” button. Accept it and that specific action will run automatically on that site from then on — Sight just notifies you instead of asking. Everything else still goes through the approval step.

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Notifications & proactive updates

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Automation run summaries

Any automation can post a summary to Slack when it finishes — the automation name, whether it completed or failed, and a natural-language recap — with one-click controls right under it:

• Pause this automation — stop it from running again until you re-enable it in Sight AI.
• Retry now — (on failed runs) re-run the automation immediately.
• Open in Sight AI — jump straight to the Automations page.

Choosing a Slack channel for an automation also teaches Sight to associate that channel with the site. Pause/Retry are admin-only actions.

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Proactive system automations

Connecting Slack adds three optional system automations to your Automations page. They post to the channel linked to a site and run on a fixed schedule (times are UTC): They turn on once a channel is linked to the site, and you can disable any of them from the Automations page. They use read-only tools only.

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Credits

Sight’s answers in Slack — channel mentions, thread follow-ups, DMs, and approved actions — use your team’s AI credits, the same pool as in-app Agent chat and automations. If your team runs out of credits, Sight tells you and stops until you top up. App Home, plain notification posts, and the short “on it” acknowledgment don’t cost credits.

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Async results

Some actions take a few minutes to finish — notably article generation. When you kick off a generation from Slack, Sight posts a “started” reply right away, then posts the finished article link back into the same thread when it’s ready (or a heads-up if it failed). You don’t need to ask “is it done?” — Sight follows up on its own.

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Disconnect

To remove Slack for your whole team, go to Integrations → Slack and click Disconnect. This revokes the connection and clears channel mappings and site access. Automations with Slack notifications will stop posting until you reconnect.

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Troubleshooting

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Related

• Automations overview
• Monitoring & troubleshooting
• MCP Connectors — Sight can use connector tools in Slack too
• Custom automations — use getSlackStatus to check channel availability