Bot for Slack StrawberryFiles, messages and channels, worked for you
A companion works the 24 operations your Bot for Slack account exposes. It can upload a file and update a message, and every one of those waits on an approval card showing the file before it changes.
Open the file. Check it against something else. Write the change. Move to the next one. That is the Bot for Slack afternoon nobody can hand off, and a companion does the whole pass and gives you back the batch, with nothing landing on a file until you approve it.
What it can do is exactly what Bot for Slack exposes to an account you authorise and nothing beyond it: 24 operations, 8 reads and 16 writes. In practice that means it can upload a file, update a message and update groups members, and work across the files, messages and channels.
The Bot for Slack API stops at Bot for Slack. A companion does not. The same run opens the customer's website, the supplier portal, the internal tool somebody built in 2019, because it is working the browser you are already signed into rather than calling in from outside it.
Which Bot for Slack files does a companion see?
8 of the 24 operations are reads.
Your account, not a guess at it: a companion can list users, list replies and list a members in channel, and the full list below is the whole list, with nothing inferred from Bot for Slack's documentation.
The files are what most of this inventory is about, alongside the messages. A companion can hold all 24 of these operations and forty open tabs in the same pass, which is how an afternoon of Bot for Slack admin becomes a queue you review.
- List Users
- List Replies
- List Members in Channel
- List Group Members
- List Files
- List Channels
- Get File
- Find User by Email
Can it change a file without asking?
All 16 write operations wait for you.
A companion can upload a file, update a message and update groups members, and each one is staged on an approval card first: you see the file, the field and the new value before it lands in Bot for Slack.
Nothing in Bot for Slack is sent, changed or deleted on your behalf without that click, and a rejected card leaves the file exactly as it was. The gate is the same one on every surface, described at security.
- Upload File
- Update Message
- Update Groups Members
- Set Channel Topic
- Set Channel Description
- Send Message
- Send Message (Advanced)
- Send a Large Message (3000+ characters)
- Reply to a Message Thread
- Invite User to Channel
- Delete Message
- Delete File
- Create a Channel
- Archive Channel
- Add Emoji Reaction
- Send Message Using Block Kit
Can the files pass run every Monday?
Yes.
Saved as a routine, the Bot for Slack files pass runs at the hour you pick: the Monday sweep, the overnight refresh, the Friday check. Keep Awake holds the machine awake for the length of a run, so a scheduled pass finishes with the lid closed.
The operations playbook catalogues the other recurring shapes of the messages, the Bot for Slack files sweep among them, and finished runs are published at real runs.
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