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Microsoft Agents Hosting - Slack
Integration library for building Slack agents using the Microsoft 365 Agents SDK. Provides direct-to-Slack responses (the full Slack Web API surface, beyond what Azure Bot Service exposes), a typed SlackChannelData envelope with dot-notation property access, and a SlackStream helper for chat.startStream / chat.appendStream / chat.stopStream.
Release Notes
| Version | Date | Release Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1.8.0 | 2026-10-01 | 1.8.0 Release Notes |
| 1.7.0 | 2026-09-17 | 1.7.0 Release Notes |
| 1.5.0 | 2026-08-26 | 1.5.0 Release Notes |
| 1.4.0 | 2026-08-18 | 1.4.0 Release Notes |
| 1.3.0 | 2026-07-30 | 1.3.0 Release Notes |
| 1.2.0 | 2026-07-17 | 1.2.0 Release Notes |
| 1.1.0 | 2026-06-19 | 1.1.0 Release Notes |
Packages Overview
We offer the following PyPI packages to create conversational experiences based on Agents:
| Package Name | PyPI Version | Description |
|---|---|---|
microsoft-agents-activity |
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Types and validators implementing the Activity protocol spec. |
microsoft-agents-hosting-core |
 |
Core library for Microsoft Agents hosting. |
microsoft-agents-hosting-aiohttp |
 |
Configures aiohttp to run the Agent. |
microsoft-agents-hosting-fastapi |
 |
Configures fastapi to run the Agent. |
microsoft-agents-hosting-msteams |
 |
Provides classes to host an Agent for Teams. |
microsoft-agents-hosting-dialogs |
 |
Dialog system with waterfall dialogs, prompts, and multi-turn conversation management. |
microsoft-agents-hosting-slack |
 |
Provides classes to host an Agent for Slack. |
microsoft-agents-storage-blob |
 |
Extension to use Azure Blob as storage. |
microsoft-agents-storage-cosmos |
 |
Extension to use CosmosDB as storage. |
microsoft-agents-authentication-msal |
 |
MSAL-based authentication for Microsoft Agents. |
microsoft-agents-authentication-entra-auth-sidecar |
 |
Credential-free Entra ID Agent ID authentication via the sidecar. |
Installation
pip install microsoft-agents-hosting-slack
Usage
from microsoft_agents.hosting.core.app import AgentApplication
from microsoft_agents.hosting.slack import SlackAgentExtension
from microsoft_agents.hosting.slack.api import SlackChannelData
app = AgentApplication(options)
slack = SlackAgentExtension(app)
@slack.on_message()
async def on_slack_message(context, state):
channel_data = SlackChannelData.from_activity(context.activity)
await slack.call(
context,
"chat.postMessage",
{
"channel": channel_data.get("event.channel"),
"text": f"You said: {context.activity.text}",
},
token=channel_data.api_token,
)
Key Classes
SlackAgentExtension— registers Slack-channel-scoped message/event handlers; exposescall(...)andcreate_stream(...).SlackChannelData— typed wrapper around Bot Service's Slack channel-data payload withget(path)/try_get(path)accessors.SlackApi— async HTTP client for the Slack Web API.SlackStream— wraps Slack's streaming methods for incremental message updates.SlackHelpers— encode/decode and conversation-id parsing utilities.
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