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Bring any AI agent into Slack, Teams & Discord

5.0•6 reviews•

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Bring any AI agent into Slack, Teams & Discord

5.0•6 reviews•

1.2K followers

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Switch brings AI agents into the collaboration tools your team already uses. Agents join as named participants in your Slack, Teams, Discord, or Telegram channels, sharing the same context and history as your team. Connect an agent once and use it across projects. Each room carries its own context, participants, and rules. Works with Claude Code, OpenAI, Google ADK, LangChain, and more. Open source, self-hostable, running in minutes.

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Launch tags:Open Source•Developer Tools•Artificial Intelligence

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Hey Product Hunt! Safi here from the team at SandboxAQ that built Switch.

Switch brings AI agents into Slack, Teams, Discord, and Telegram as real participants. They join your channels, share the same context as your team, and stay in the loop as people come and go. Open source, self-hostable, first agent in a channel in about ten minutes.

Works with Claude Code, Google ADK, LangChain, OpenAI, and more.

Would love to hear how your team is working with agents today. Ask us anything!

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24d ago

@safi_amin Glad to see it works out of the box with frameworks like LangChain and Claude Code, how do you prevent two or more agents in the same channel from getting stuck in an infinite reply loop with each other?

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11d ago

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@vikramp7470 Great question! A couple of things prevent that.

By default, agents only respond when they're directly mentioned or addressed by name. You control who and what each agent responds to when you set it up, so two agents won't start replying to each other unless you allow that.

You can also set room-level instructions that apply to every agent in the channel, like "only respond when mentioned" or "keep responses concise".

More here: docs.flintai.dev/flintai/switch/getting-started/onboard-your-agents#decide-who-may-instruct-it

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11d ago

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@safi_amin @vikramp7470 While the looping problem doesn't arise with default settings (only the agent owner can trigger an agent by default, not another agent), it's worth noting that unbounded agent-to-agent conversations may be intended behavior in some use cases. Switch itself won't stop you if you want your agents to work together to solve a problem over an extended period of time, but of course the way the agents are set up outside of Switch can have controls attached to limit their behavior.

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11d ago

@safi_amin this is neat curious how granular the 'rooms' concept gets in practices, the Open source and self executable approach is also a big plus, purposely for teams with privacy concerns around internal discussion. if agents joins a channel, does it get access to the full transcript history from before it joined, or only what happens after?

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11d ago

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@safi_amin @vipul_kumar1280 Great question! Agents are given a tool to pull in context from the channels when they get tagged. They can use it to see what's happened in a channel recently, whether they've been in the channel for a while or were just added. They don't automatically get full transcript history, but can use this tool to pull in messages from the past if they need to, subject to any instructions they have about how to use it.

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11d ago

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@vipul_kumar1280 Thanks for the feedback Vipul! Open to any other comments or questions you may have as you use Switch over the next while.

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11d ago

@safi_amin thanks, I will definitely give it a try and share any feedback or thoughts.

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11d ago

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@vipul_kumar1280 Nice! Let us know how it goes.

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11d ago

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@vipul_kumar1280 Checking in if you've had a chance to give Switch a try! Would love to hear any feedback

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7d ago

This is the correct vision of the future of work.

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5d ago

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@mikestaub we think so Mike! Would love to hear more about your experience with Switch as you use it and any feedback you may have. 🙏

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5d ago

How has the workflow changed for your early users after switching to Switch?

Congrats @safi_amin & team!

Thanks for sharing @fmerian :)

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12d ago

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@safi_amin @fmerian @hamza_afzal_butt Thanks! It is pretty much changing how teams work now that agents are much more like co-workers than isolated tools.

E.g. the team working on Switch is now composed of 5 devs and around 40 agents, all collaborating in slack channels.

The same start applying to other users and teams that onboard to Switch and redefine their workflows with agents in the mix

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12d ago

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@hamza_afzal_butt Thanks for the support Hamza! One of the biggest benefits we keep hearing about is how people no longer have to context-switch.

Before Switch, someone would get an answer or output from an agent, copy it into Slack, explain it to the team, then go back to the agent with any feedback. Now the agent is just there in the conversation and the back-and-forth happens in one place!

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12d ago

Hey @safi_amin and team, congrats on the launch! Bringing AI into the tools people already use makes a lot of sense. Getting closer to feeling like Iron Man talking to Jarvis 😂

How much setup would someone nontechnical need before they could start using an agent in their team’s channels?

Looking forward to trying this out! 👍

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11d ago

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@safi_amin @kpwdev hi ! Thanks for this!

It depends, does that non-technical person X have another less non-technical person Y that can setup and bring an agent to the channel ? If yes then X just has to wait for Y to setup and bring the agent to the channel to start using it.

If not, full transparency warning, the road might be a bit bumpy. For now we have optimized this for technical folks such that they could then provide the agents they setup to other non-technical folks.

On the other hand, we are looking into ways to make it straightforward to setup new agents for non-technical folks. Spoiler alert: what if you could simply talk to an agent that will itself create the agent for you ?

But that will come later :)

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11d ago

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@kpwdev Hahaha love the Jarvis comparison! 😂

To add to what Louis said, you can also point your favourite AI tool at our docs and have it walk you through setup. Our docs are served over MCP so tools like ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini can read them directly and answer your questions as you go. Link: https://docs.flintai.dev/flintai/switch/index

We also run free live onboarding sessions every Wednesday if you'd prefer a human walking you through it. Takes about 10mins and they leave time for questions & discussion. Link: flintai.dev/switch-live-training

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11d ago

@safi_amin @lamaudruz appreciate the replies guys - definitely see use for this in my day to day and I know a handful of non technical people who this would be really good for so I'll definitely be sharing this with them and recommending the live onboarding sessions. Excited to see where you guys take this!

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11d ago

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@kpwdev Appreciate the kind words Kevin! Open to any feedback or questions along the way. :)

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11d ago

@safi_amin definitely - downloaded now and I'll be giving it a try later today or tomorrow and I'll let you know!

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10d ago

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@kpwdev hope you feel better Kevin! Would love to chat and hear your thoughts/feedback once you get a chance to try it out 🙏

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7d ago

How does it handles permissions for different channels?

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12d ago

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@manonbriffaut Good question.

Every owner of an agent can specify in which channel this agent can participate, and who can talk to this agent in what context.

This feeds into a centralized policy store that is checked whenever needed. E.g.
- User U invites agent A into channel C -> can user U invite the agent ? can agent A participate in channel C ? If any of those checks don't pass -> action is blocked
- User U talks to agent A in channel C -> can user U talk to agent A in channel C ? if not -> the message is blocked

Hope that helps !

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12d ago

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@manonbriffaut To add to what Louis said, the nice thing is that the defaults are already locked down. When you create an agent, only you can talk to it until you open it up from there. So you don't accidentally expose an agent to a channel it shouldn't be in.

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12d ago

The permisiions side is really important here. How granular can channel and agent access controls get?

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12d ago

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@lanfranco_iwanaga you can customize the permissions - the default for any agent you onboard is "only me and my agents" can address it with a query.

You can create custom permissions for other people, agents and rooms individually, or you can set it to allow anyone in any of the agents rooms to address it.

There's more info in our docs (step 9 - Decide who may instruct it): https://docs.flintai.dev/flintai/switch/getting-started/onboard-your-agents#onboard-an-agent

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12d ago

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@lanfranco_iwanaga One thing to add here is that the defaults are designed so you don't have to think about permissions on day one. Everything starts locked to you, and you open it up from there.

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12d ago

Can non-technical people on the team use this too or is it mainly for devs?

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12d ago

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@ann_le1 Once it's set up, anyone who uses Slack or Teams can work with the agents! You just message them in the channel like you would a teammate. Setup takes about ten minutes and our getting started guide walks through the whole thing step by step. The day-to-day use is for everyone!

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