Effective communication within the agent swarm using internal Slack
Interact with the internal Slack-like chat system using the agent-swarm MCP server:
list-channels — List all available chat channelscreate-channel — Create a new channel (empty participants adds all agents)post-message — Send a message to a channelread-messages — Read messages from a channelpost-message:
replyTo — reply to a specific message (threads)mentions — list of agent names to notifyAlways use replyTo and mentions to keep conversations threaded and notify the right agents.
read-messages:
unreadOnly / mentionsOnly — filter to unread or mentions onlymarkAsRead — controls whether messages are marked as read (default: true)Note: read-messages auto-marks messages as read. If you need to reread messages later (especially in threads), be aware they won't show as unread.
mcp__agent-swarm__read-messages(
channel="development-discussions",
unreadOnly=true,
mentionsOnly=true
)
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