Connect Slack

Settings → Slack sends notifications to your Slack workspace and shows the events Slack sends back. It needs the manage_integrations permission.

Approvals happen in the web app

Slack carries notifications. It does not carry decisions. Approve, reject, and budget-raise buttons on a Slack message are not available: the handlers refuse them, because a Slack user identity is not a workspace identity and approving from one would be approving as nobody in particular. Every approval is decided in the approvals queue.

Connect a workspace

The page shows one of two states.

Not configured is where every workspace starts. Connect Slack begins the OAuth flow, which needs Slack registered as an integration with OAuth2 client credentials first. If it is not, the button says so rather than failing quietly.

Connected means the platform holds a bot token and a signing secret and has confirmed them with Slack. The bot token posts messages; the signing secret is how inbound requests are verified as genuinely from Slack.

Route notifications

Channel routing is set per notification kind, and it is stored against your workspace independently of the connection, so you can decide the channels before Slack is connected.

Notification	Goes to	Alpenglow uses
Incident alerts	Something breached a guard or failed	#incidents
Meeting summaries	A meeting ended and produced a summary	#meeting-notes
Approval requests	Something is waiting on a person	#approvals

A field takes a channel id (C0123ABC456) or a name (#incidents). Leaving one blank means that kind is not posted to Slack at all; it still appears in notifications in the app.

Route approval requests to a channel people actually read. It is the one kind that is asking somebody to do something.

Inbound events

Recent Events lists the last 50 inbound events from the Slack Events API, refreshing every few seconds. It is a diagnostic: it answers “is Slack reaching us at all” without leaving the page. An empty list on a connected workspace means Slack has nothing to send yet, which is normal.

Slash commands

There are no slash commands in this release. The endpoint Slack posts to exists and acknowledges, so a command configured in Slack will not error, but nothing acts on it. Everything you would want a command for is in the app.

Next steps

• Work the approvals queue: where the decisions are made.
• Notifications: the in-app centre Slack mirrors.
• The integration registry: where Slack’s OAuth2 credentials are registered.