Scopegate
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Secure Slack Access for AI Agents

Slack is where your team shares everything — strategy discussions, customer complaints, hiring decisions, and credentials. AI agents that participate in Slack workflows can be incredibly useful, but standard Slack bot tokens grant workspace-wide visibility. ScopeGate puts channel-level boundaries around what your agent can see and do.

The Problem

A Slack bot with broad permissions can read every public and private channel, browse direct messages between employees, access shared files and credentials, and post messages impersonating the bot in any channel. Without guardrails, a compromised agent could harvest confidential conversations, spam channels, or leak private discussions to external systems.

Granular Permissions

Channel-specific access

Restrict the agent to one or more named channels, hiding all other channels and conversations.

Example

Agent monitors only #customer-support and #bug-reports — cannot see #executive-team or #salary-discussions.

Read-only mode

Allow the agent to read messages in permitted channels without posting, reacting, or threading.

Example

Agent reads #product-feedback to extract feature requests but cannot reply or react to messages.

No DM access

Block the agent from reading or sending direct messages, limiting it to channel-based interactions only.

Example

Agent operates in public channels but has zero visibility into any private 1-on-1 conversations.

Rate-limited posting

Cap the number of messages the agent can send per minute or per hour to prevent spam.

Example

Agent can post at most 5 messages per hour in #daily-standup to share summaries, preventing message floods.

Use Cases

  • Standup bot that reads messages in #engineering and posts daily summaries
  • Customer escalation agent that monitors #support and flags urgent issues to #support-escalation
  • Knowledge base assistant that answers questions in #help-desk by reading pinned resources
  • Incident response bot that posts alerts to #incidents from monitoring data without reading other channels

How It Works

1

Connect via OAuth

Authorize ScopeGate to access the service on your behalf. We never store raw credentials — only scoped OAuth tokens.

2

Set granular permissions

Choose exactly which resources, actions, and data your AI agent can access. Lock down everything else.

3

Get your MCP endpoint

Receive a unique MCP endpoint URL. Plug it into any AI agent — it can only do what you allowed.

Related Integrations

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Gmail

Control how AI agents interact with Gmail. Enable send-only, read-only, or label-specific access. Prevent inbox snooping and unauthorized email sending.

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Notion

Limit AI agent access to specific Notion databases and pages. Enforce read-only mode and prevent workspace-wide browsing.

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GitHub

Control AI agent access to GitHub repos. Enforce read-only code access, block admin actions, and prevent secrets exposure.

Secure your Slack access

Set up granular permissions for your AI agents in minutes. Free tier includes 1 project, 5 endpoints, and 1,000 requests per month.

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