Slack has announced new capabilities designed to make it easier for organisations to build, deploy, and manage AI agents directly within the platform, enabling businesses to integrate AI more seamlessly into the everyday flow of work.
As companies in Sri Lanka and globally accelerate AI adoption, a key challenge has been ensuring that AI tools remain practical, secure, and closely connected to existing workflows. Many AI solutions currently operate in isolated browser tabs or separate applications, limiting their effectiveness and requiring employees to constantly switch between tools. Slack’s latest updates aim to solve this by unifying apps, automations, and AI agents within a single collaborative workspace.
The new features enable organisations to orchestrate work through Slackbot, deploy AI agents more efficiently, manage trusted agents via Salesforce’s AgentExchange and Slack’s consolidated agent browser, and build richer AI experiences using Block Kit.
With the upcoming Slackbot MCP Client and AgentExchange, Slackbot is positioned as a conversational enterprise interface, connecting apps and agents across organisations. Users will be able to submit requests within Slack, have them routed to specialised agents, execute multi-step workflows, and receive completed outputs directly within the same conversation thread.
Slackbot will also support more contextual, app-specific interactions within chat, allowing users to move from query to action without navigating multiple dashboards. For example, a team preparing for a customer meeting could request a briefing, with multiple agents compiling analytics, sales insights, relevant documents, and calendar coordination into a single structured response.
Slack is also streamlining agent deployment through updated developer tools and “Add to Slack” integrations from platforms such as Vercel and Lovable, enabling developers and non-developers alike to build and deploy agents with reduced technical complexity.
For developers, Slack is introducing the Slack Agent Kit, which provides enhanced frameworks and command-line tools for building sophisticated AI agents across different platforms. This allows technical teams to focus on defining agent functionality while Slack manages much of the underlying chat and configuration infrastructure.
In addition, AgentExchange will serve as a unified marketplace for trusted agents from Salesforce, Slack, Agentforce, and partners including Google, Anthropic, and Box. The consolidated agent browser will further allow users to discover, manage, and continue agent interactions within the Slack environment.
SLAAPS Pays Courtesy Visit to Office of the New Zealand High Commissioner in Sri Lanka
In celebration of Administrative Professionals Week 2026, the Sri Lanka Association of Administrative and Professional Secretaries (SLAAPS) recently paid a courtesy visit to the office of David Pine, New Zealand’s High Commissioner to Sri Lanka, Maldives, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.
Marking the occasion, a commemorative flag was presented to the High Commissioner by Ruchira Costa, President of SLAAPS. The gesture symbolised appreciation for administrative professionals and their vital contributions across industries.
The delegation was led by Ruchira Costa and included Ruveena Uvais Cader (Advisor), Dumindra Jayawardena (Secretary), Thanuja Chandrasinghe (Treasurer), Harshanie Roy (Assistant Secretary), and Chathurini Kariyawasam Perera (Assistant Treasurer).
The visit underscored SLAAPS’ commitment to promoting professional excellence while strengthening international goodwill and engagement.
SLAAPS continues to champion the development, recognition, and empowerment of administrative professionals both locally and globally.
Slack is where your team works — now it’s where your agents work too
