bolt-python

Why we included this project

Bolt for Python is the framework Slack itself maintains for building apps in its workspace, so it is the shortest path to a conversational assistant or chatops bot. It handles the tedious integration work: signature verification, event routing, slash commands, interactive actions, and the ack handshake. You write listener functions with decorators and reply with say or respond, which keeps bot logic readable. The async variant and Socket Mode are worth attention: Socket Mode lets a bot run behind a firewall without a public endpoint, a common need for internal tools. Hook an LLM up to that event loop and Slack messages come in as structured payloads while responses flow back through the API, a solid foundation for a production bot.