Connect Slack to Cursor

• Catch you up

  Ask what you missed and Cursor reads your unread Slack chats, then gives you the short version: who needs an answer, what was decided, what can wait.

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• Find any message

  The address someone sent last month, the price a client agreed to, the link from a group chat. Cursor searches your Slack history and quotes the message.

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• Draft replies

  Cursor writes the reply in your tone, in the chat's language, with the context of the whole thread. You read it, edit it, and send it.

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• Send with your OK

  When you approve a draft, ConnectChats sends it from your own Slack account and confirms delivery. Auto-send only runs in chats where you switch it on.

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• Cursor

  Summarize the Slack channels I missed this morning.

• Cursor

  What did the team decide about the launch date on Slack?

• Cursor

  List every Slack message that is waiting on me.

• Cursor

  Find the Slack thread where we discussed the pricing change.

• Cursor

  Draft a reply in Slack confirming I'll send the report by Thursday.

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   Add ConnectChats to Cursor

   • Open ~/.cursor/mcp.json to use ConnectChats in every project, or .cursor/mcp.json for one project.
   • Add this entry and save: { "mcpServers": { "connectchats": { "url": "https://api.connectchats.com/mcp" } } }
   • Open Customize in the sidebar, find connectchats and sign in when Cursor asks. Use your passkey on the ConnectChats page.
   • In the agent chat, ask about your messages.
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   Link your Slack account

   • Open https://connectchats.com/app and choose Link a chat app, then Slack.
   • Sign in to your Slack workspace with your own Slack account.
   • ConnectChats lists your channels and direct messages, and you choose which ones to share with your AI app.
   • To add another workspace, repeat the sign-in for it.
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   Pick the chats Cursor can see

   Every chat is listed in your ConnectChats dashboard. Share all of them or only the ones you choose. Cursor never sees the rest.

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   Ask Cursor about your Slack

   Open a new conversation in Cursor and ask about your chats. Cursor calls ConnectChats when it needs your messages.

• Slack in ConnectChats

  Direct messages, group messages and the channels you belong to are supported, including thread replies. Each linked chat starts with its last 200 messages, then every new message arrives as it is sent. On Slack's free plan, Slack only shows the last 90 days of messages, so older ones cannot be imported either. Messages your AI app sends go out from your own Slack account, after you approve them. The free plan links 2 chat apps and keeps messages for 30 days.

• ConnectChats in Cursor

  Cursor reads MCP servers from an mcp.json file and supports OAuth sign-in for remote servers. Add ConnectChats once and its agent can look up messages while you work, such as the bug report a teammate sent you on WhatsApp. Cursor signs in with OAuth and renews the token on its own, so you sign in once. You can switch ConnectChats off in Customize without removing it from mcp.json. Cloud Agents keep their own sign-in, separate from the desktop app. Team admins can limit which MCP servers members can use with an allowlist.

• You pick the chats

  Cursor only sees the Slack chats you share. Unshare a chat and it disappears from every AI app at once.

• Drafts by default

  Cursor prepares replies. You approve each one before it reaches Slack, unless you turn on auto-send for that chat.

• Stored messages are encrypted

  Stored messages are encrypted with a key that only your passkey can unlock. We never train models on your messages.

How we protect your messages