Do I need to be a Slack admin?

You need permission to install an app in the workspace. On many workspaces that means an admin approves it once.

What can it actually see?

The direct messages sent to it. It doesn't answer in channels yet, and it can't read anyone else's DMs.

Diali does not use the content of your conversations to train AI models. Your assistant needs a message to answer it, and that is where it ends.

Where the work conversation already happens. Install it once and message it directly. It runs on OpenClaw or Hermes, hosted by Diali.

Slack

A direct message to your assistant is the quickest way to hand it something, and it keeps the context of what you asked yesterday.

It answers the Slack members you list, or the ones you approve from your dashboard. Everyone else is ignored.

It runs on Diali, so it's there when your laptop is closed.

Three steps from the dashboard. The full guide, with screenshots, opens when you connect the channel.

Create a Slack app
Create an app for your workspace from Slack's app dashboard. Diali tells you exactly which fields it needs.
Grant the scopes
Add the bot scopes for reading and posting messages. Slack lists them plainly before you approve anything.
Install to your workspace
Install the app to your workspace, then open a direct message with it.

You need permission to install an app in the workspace. On many workspaces that means an admin approves it once.
The direct messages sent to it. It doesn't answer in channels yet, and it can't read anyone else's DMs.
Diali does not use the content of your conversations to train AI models. Your assistant needs a message to answer it, and that is where it ends.

Get started

Every plan reaches every channel. Connect one now and add the rest whenever you like.