Use when a developer wants to create, scaffold, or bootstrap a new Slack app or agent from scratch with the Slack CLI. Covers prerequisites, authentication, choosing a workspace to install into, and creating a project from a Bolt (JS or Python) template locally. Trigger on "create a Slack app", "new Bolt app", "start a Slack agent".
Install
npx skills add slackapi/slack-skills-plugin --skill create-slack-appnpx skills add slackapi/slack-skills-plugin --skill create-slack-app -a claude-code -gnpx skills add slackapi/slack-skills-plugin --skill create-slack-app -a codex -ggemini skills install https://github.com/slackapi/slack-skills-plugin.git --path skills/create-slack-appgh skill install slackapi/slack-skills-plugin create-slack-appgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/slackapi/slack-skills-plugin /tmp/slackapi__slack-skills-plugin
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills ~/.agents/skills
cp -R /tmp/slackapi__slack-skills-plugin/skills/create-slack-app ~/.claude/skills/create-slack-app # Claude Code
cp -R /tmp/slackapi__slack-skills-plugin/skills/create-slack-app ~/.agents/skills/create-slack-app # Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Copilot, OpenCode