channels-sdk
by CopilotKit
Channels SDK is a TypeScript toolkit that connects an AI agent to chat platforms such as Slack and Microsoft Teams. It lets the agent reply in conversations, show buttons and cards in each platform's native style, and ask for human approval before it acts.
- Stars
- 950
- Licence
- MIT
- Runs on
- A small server
- Setup
- Technical
- Language
- Not stated
- Age
- 107 days
What you can do with it
- Put an existing AI agent into Slack or Microsoft Teams so colleagues can talk to it in chat
- Show interactive buttons, choices and cards that render natively on each platform
- Add approval steps so a person confirms an action before the agent carries it out
Make money with it
A freelancer could build and maintain custom Slack or Teams agents for small companies as a paid integration service.
An idea, not financial advice. Check the licence before charging for anything built on it.
Ways a business could use it
- Give a team an internal assistant in Slack or Teams that looks up information and drafts replies, saving time on routine requests
- Build a customer-facing support or operations bot that asks for staff approval before sending refunds or changing records
Can you use it commercially?
Free to use, change and sell, including in paid products. Keep the copyright notice.
Not legal advice. Read the project's licence file before building a product on it.
Getting it running
Install with npm (@copilotkit/channels and @copilotkit/runtime) on Node.js 22 or later, then run a long-lived Node process; you also set up a Channel in CopilotKit Intelligence and a Slack or Teams app.
Follow the official instructions in the project README.
Things to check
- Managed Slack and Teams connections depend on the hosted CopilotKit Intelligence service, which may be paid and ties you to a vendor
- Needs an AI model provider API key, which usually costs money
- Discord and Telegram support are described as coming, not fully available
- Setup involves several moving parts: a project, an agent, a managed channel, a provider app and a long-running process
Who's talking about it
Checked 31 Oct 2026. Summary drafted by AI from the project's README.
