Best Claude Skills for Slack & Discord Workflows in 2026
Slack and Discord skills for Claude Code — a 7-skill curated stack pulled from the Enterprise category, organized by use case (read, write, automate, monitor).
Slack and Discord workflows are where most teams' agent automation actually lives — internal notifications, on-call alerts, AI-assisted help-desk bots, daily standup digests. But the catalog has surprisingly few specialized chat skills. Most teams use the general-purpose Slack and Discord skills from the Enterprise list and build their workflows on top. This article surfaces the seven skills worth knowing about, organized by what they do.
Quick Pick
Install SlackHighlighted (steipete/slack) for Slack workflows; Discord (steipete/discord) for Discord. Both from the same author, both encode the full operational surface (send/react/pin/thread/poll). Together they cover ~80% of team-chat automation needs.
The 7-Skill Stack by Use Case
Read & Listen
Skills for consuming what's happening in your channels.
SlackHighlighted (steipete/slack, 35K signal) — The canonical Slack skill. Reads channels, fetches DMs, monitors mentions. The "highlighted" version (vs. lighter alternatives) includes thread navigation and pinned-message inspection. Install for any Slack-aware agent workflow.
Discord (steipete/discord, 27K signal) — Same author's Discord counterpart. Reads messages, threads, polls, member lists, permissions. The most feature-complete Discord skill in the catalog.
Write & Respond
Skills for posting into channels.
Both #1 and #2 cover write paths — send messages, react with emoji, pin/unpin, upload files/stickers, run polls. For Discord specifically, the Discord skill supports threads, stickers, and emoji upload that no other skill matches.
Automate Workflows
Skills for building bots that span chat plus other systems.
API Gateway (clawhub/api-gateway, 62K signal) — Cross-listed from Enterprise. 100+ APIs with managed OAuth, including Slack. Install when your workflow needs Claude to bridge Slack and 5 other services (e.g., "summarize this thread → write to Notion → ping me back").
GitHub (clawhub/github, 145K signal) — The most common chat-adjacent pairing. PR notifications, issue alerts, CI status — all driven from chat. Cross-list from Enterprise.
Bridge to External Systems
Composio (community, 7K signal) — Multi-app workflow orchestrator. Connect Slack to 100+ apps via Composio's hosted integration layer. Useful for non-coders who want pre-built recipes.
Distribute Notifications
Skills for pushing alerts into chat from outside systems.
Auto-Updater Skill (maximeprades, 65K signal) — Cross-listed from CI/CD. Posts daily skill-update summaries into chat. Pattern generalizes — adapt to post any periodic digest.
News Summary (joargp, 34K signal) — RSS-based briefings with voice output. Install for daily team-briefing Slack posts.
Why This List Is Small
Most chat-automation skills live in two places: (1) general-purpose Slack/Discord skills that cover the operational surface and let you build workflows on top, and (2) vertical SaaS skills that happen to include chat as one output (GitHub, alerts, etc.). The catalog doesn't yet have many purpose-built chat-automation skills because the canonical ones (Slack, Discord) cover so much surface area that purpose-built skills don't add enough on top to earn install volume.
If you're building a serious chat automation, install the canonical Slack/Discord skills + API Gateway + GitHub. Build the workflow logic in Claude. Don't wait for a specialized "Slack standup bot" skill — write the prompt yourself.
Comparison Table — Stack Overview
| Skill | Source | Signal | Why it's in the stack |
|---|---|---|---|
| SlackHighlighted | Enterprise | 35K | Canonical Slack |
| Discord | Enterprise | 27K | Canonical Discord |
| API Gateway | Enterprise | 62K | Cross-system orchestration |
| GitHub | Enterprise | 145K | Most common chat-adjacent pairing |
| Composio | Community | 7K | Pre-built multi-app recipes |
| Auto-Updater | CI/CD | 65K | Periodic chat digests |
| News Summary | Research | 34K | Daily briefing pattern |
FAQ
How is this list different from the category page on aiskill.market?
Category pages list everything tagged with slack or discord. This list cross-pulls from Enterprise, CI/CD, and Research categories to surface what's actually useful for chat workflows — chat skills don't live in one place.
Are these all free?
Yes (open source). Slack and Discord both require workspace admin to install bots and connect tokens. Composio requires their hosted service (free tier available).
How do I install one?
Each linked skill page has install instructions. The fastest path is the one-line install via the aiskill.market CLI or by adding the source repo as a Claude Code plugin marketplace.
How often does this list update?
Quarterly. Expect new purpose-built chat-automation skills as the ecosystem matures.
Why not include Microsoft Teams?
The catalog doesn't have a strong Teams skill at the time of writing — that's the next obvious gap. If you need Teams, fall back to API Gateway which proxies to the Microsoft Graph API.
What's the right starter pack?
Three skills: SlackHighlighted (Slack) + Discord + API Gateway (cross-system). Add GitHub if you're a dev team; add Auto-Updater as a pattern reference for periodic digests.
Related Categories
- Best AI Skills for Enterprise in 2026 — most of these skills live in Enterprise
- Best AI Skills for Productivity & Organization in 2026 — adjacent productivity workflows
- Best AI Skills for First-Time Founders in 2026 — Slack is the standard team-chat in early startups
Browse The Full Catalog
aiskill.market/browse has every skill, filterable by tag. Filter on slack or discord to see all entries; this list is the opinionated subset worth installing first.
Part of the Best-Of 2026 series. Updated 2026-05-18. Cross-category curated stack (Slack and Discord skills are thin enough that a single-tag ranking wouldn't be useful).