slack-search

The Slack Search skill provides comprehensive guidance for effectively searching Slack workspaces to locate messages, files, channels, and people. It addresses the common challenge of finding specific information in large Slack workspaces where conversations span multiple channels, threads, and time periods. By offering structured search strategies and tool selection guidance, this skill helps users quickly retrieve relevant context and information without manually scrolling through channels.

This skill supports four primary search tools: public channel search, combined public and private channel search, channel discovery, and user lookup. It includes detailed search modifier syntax for filtering by location, user, content type, date ranges, and text matching patterns. The skill also provides guidance on file-specific searches with support for various file types including images, documents, PDFs, spreadsheets, and Slack Canvases. Search strategies emphasize starting broad and narrowing down results, choosing between natural language and keyword approaches, and breaking complex queries into multiple targeted searches.

Ideal for teams and individuals who need to quickly find historical conversations, track project discussions, locate shared files, or gather context before responding to questions. The skill is particularly valuable for onboarding new team members who need to catch up on past discussions, project managers tracking decisions across channels, and support teams looking for previous solutions to similar problems. It includes practical guidance on following up on search results by reading full threads and surrounding messages for complete context.