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Slack · Workflow Builder

Generate AI Response

Slack Workflow Builder can include an AI response step that generates answers, summaries and other text outputs from configured prompts and selected Slack knowledge sources.

Recorded characteristics

Function
The Generate AI Response step allows a workflow creator to provide a prompt and have AI automatically generate outputs including summaries, answers, extracted decisions and action items, classifications and transformed text.
Data access
The AI step can use knowledge sources selected by the workflow creator. Slack documents supported sources including Slack channels, canvases, lists and files, and the step can also use variables produced by other workflow steps.
Actions
Generative only
External actions
Unknown
Human confirmation
Not established
Permission basis
Not established
Administrative control
The AI capability is configured within Workflow Builder by selecting the AI step, defining its prompt and choosing the sources or workflow variables it may use. Slack also allows organisations to apply administrative controls to workflow creation and publication, but a universal AI-specific permission model for this individual step was not established from the public evidence reviewed.
Default state
Not established
Availability
Slack documents the Generate AI Response step as part of Workflow Builder. Availability may depend on the organisation's Slack plan, enabled features and administrative configuration.
Licensing
A universal licensing condition for this specific AI workflow capability was not established from the public evidence reviewed.
External model or provider
Not publicly established for this specific capability record from the evidence reviewed.
Limitations and uncertainty
The output produced by the AI step depends on its configured prompt, selected knowledge sources and workflow context. The public evidence reviewed does not establish that this step itself can independently perform consequential actions or access arbitrary Slack content beyond the sources supplied to the workflow.

Evidence