Catch up on busy Slack channels

Decisions, questions for you and mentions from your channels, in a short morning brief.

  • On a schedule: Every weekday at 8:30

What it does

The task

Read the messages in these Slack channels since the last run: channels. Find the decisions, the questions for me or my team, the mentions of me and the links that people shared more than once. Skip bot messages and chat with no decision. Send me a brief of at most 250 words, with one section for each channel and a link to each thread. Do not post or react in Slack.

  • It works in Slack, in the workspace you pick, and signs in with passwords from your Cuiar vault.
  • As a routine it runs every weekday at 8:30 (cron 30 8 * * 1-5).

What you give it

BlankWhat to giveExample
channelsThe channels to read, separated by commas#product, #ops, #general, #random-ideas

What you get back

An example run with the example values above. Your run uses your own data.

Slack since Tue 17:30

#product

  • Decision: Dark mode moves to the December release. (thread)
  • Question for you from Nadia: Can ops cover the launch chat on 18 Nov? (thread)

#ops

  • The new courier contract starts 1 Dec. Kofi shared the rate card twice. (thread)

#general

  • You were mentioned: the office is closed on 11 Nov for the move. (thread)

Nothing new in #random-ideas.

Run it in Cuiar

  1. 01

    Open it

    Click Use in Cuiar on this page. The side panel opens with the task in the composer.

  2. 02

    Fill in the blank

    Type channels. Tab moves to the next blank.

  3. 03

    Run it, then repeat it

    Run sends it once. To run it every weekday at 8:30, make a routine on cuiar.com/routines or with the CLI below.

As a routine, from the terminal

cuiar routines create "Catch up on busy Slack channels" --schedule "30 8 * * 1-5" --time-zone Europe/Berlin \
  "Read the messages in these Slack channels since the last run: #product, #ops, #general, #random-ideas. Find the decisions, the questions for me or my team, the mentions of me and the links that people shared more than once. Skip bot messages and chat with no decision. Send me a brief of at most 250 words, with one section for each channel and a link to each thread. Do not post or react in Slack."

Run it from your AI agent

Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other MCP clients reach Cuiar at https://mcp.cuiar.com/mcp. Add the server one time, then ask for the task in plain words, or call create_routine yourself.

1. Add Cuiar to Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http cuiar https://mcp.cuiar.com/mcp

2. Ask your agent

Use the Cuiar tool create_routine to run my "Catch up on busy Slack channels" template with channels = #product, #ops, #general, #random-ideas.

Setup for other agents: AI agents.

The tool call

{
  "name": "create_routine",
  "arguments": {
    "name": "Catch up on busy Slack channels",
    "task": "Read the messages in these Slack channels since the last run: #product, #ops, #general, #random-ideas. Find the decisions, the questions for me or my team, the mentions of me and the links that people shared more than once. Skip bot messages and chat with no decision. Send me a brief of at most 250 words, with one section for each channel and a link to each thread. Do not post or react in Slack.",
    "schedule": "30 8 * * 1-5",
    "time_zone": "Europe/Berlin"
  }
}
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