Explore ty-slack sidecar for managing TaskYou from Slack (task #3723) - #545
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Answers two questions from the Slack screenshot in task #3723: 1. Did we already build this? No. The only prior "Slack" work (PR #433, task #1172) was marketing copy, not an integration. Closest precedent is the ty-email sidecar (#371/#385); PR #402 circled the remote-MCP idea. 2. Does a Slack sidecar make sense? Yes — and ~90% of it already exists. Documents two patterns (chat-control sidecar vs hosted remote MCP), recommends building ty-slack as a near-clone of ty-email by reusing the existing CLI bridge, LLM classifier, ty serve HTTP API, and the events/hooks push mechanism. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Bruno pointed at github.com/taskyou/taskyou-os. It's the remote-management layer for TaskYou and already contains the closest precedent: a Linear poller module (modules/linear/linear-poll.mjs) that bridges Linear @agent comments -> ty create/execute -> posts diffs back. So we've now built this exact channel-bridge pattern twice (ty-email + Linear poller). Updated the proposal to: - recommend building Slack as a taskyou-os module (modules/slack, mirroring modules/linear), enabled via SLACK_ENABLED, tailing notifications.jsonl for push; ty-email Go sidecar kept as the fallback template - add a "where should it live" comparison (taskyou-os module vs extension) - note notifications.jsonl + the GM as the existing push substrate - link Pattern B (remote MCP) to the taskyou-os credential-proxy design Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
Task #3723 asked two questions about the attached Slack screenshot (Claude-in-Slack can't reach the TaskYou agents server):
This PR adds a written exploration/proposal answering both:
docs/proposals/ty-slack-sidecar.md.Answers
Did we build this before? No Slack — but we built the exact pattern twice.
ty-emailsidecar here (PR feat(extensions): add ty-email sidecar for email-based task management #371/Add missing email sidecar files #385) — email -> classify ->ty.taskyou-os(modules/linear/linear-poll.mjs) — polls Linear for@agentcomments, creates/executestytasks, routes by label, and posts diffs back. A Slack module is a near-exact analog.taskyou-osis the remote-management layer (GM session over SSH +ty daemon/serve/ty-web+notifications.jsonlpush substrate + env-flag modules: Linear/R2/GitHub/nono).Does it make sense? Yes — low-risk, mostly copy-adapt-configure. Two readings:
ty-emailand the Linear poller. Recommended home is ataskyou-osmodule (modules/slack/, mirroringmodules/linear/,SLACK_ENABLED=true), tailingnotifications.jsonlfor push;extensions/ty-slackGo sidecar is the fallback template.taskyou_*to cloud Claude-in-Slack is a separate hosting/auth project (builds on PR Review Cloudflare Code Mode MCP for TaskYou #402 + the taskyou-os credential-proxy design). Deferred.The "ping me in Slack when a task blocks/finishes" half can ship immediately as a
task.blocked/task.completedhook (or a tail ofnotifications.jsonl) -> Slack webhook.Files changed
docs/proposals/ty-slack-sidecar.md(new)Note on scope
Framed as an exploration, so the deliverable is a recommendation doc rather than an implementation. Open questions for Bruno (module vs standalone sidecar, shared bot vs per-user, Socket Mode vs Events API, whether to also pursue Pattern B) are at the end of the doc.
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