SlackClaw is OpenClaw — the most popular open-source AI agent framework — running natively inside Slack. It automates reports, triages PRs, sends emails, and coordinates across 3,000+ tools, all from your Slack workspace. Unlike traditional chatbots, SlackClaw runs on a dedicated server with persistent memory, so it remembers context across conversations and acts proactively.

How is SlackClaw different from setting up OpenClaw with Slack myself?

Self-hosting OpenClaw with Slack requires configuring Socket Mode or webhook endpoints, managing bot tokens, setting up OAuth scopes, maintaining a server, and handling updates. SlackClaw handles all of that — one click to install, always on, fully managed. You get a dedicated server with 8 vCPUs and 16GB RAM, encrypted secrets vault, and automatic updates without any infrastructure work.

How much does SlackClaw cost?

SlackClaw is free to start with $100 in credits per workspace. The Team plan starts at $50/month per workspace with 20,000 monthly credits. Pricing is credit-based and metered per action — not per seat — so you can add your entire team without additional cost. Enterprise plans with custom SLAs are also available.

What tools does SlackClaw integrate with?

SlackClaw connects to over 3,000 tools via one-click OAuth, including GitHub, Jira, Linear, Notion, Gmail, HubSpot, Salesforce, Zendesk, Stripe, Figma, PagerDuty, Confluence, Google Drive, and hundreds more. Once connected, the agent can read from and write to these tools autonomously.

Yes. Every team gets a dedicated, isolated server — no shared infrastructure. All secrets are stored in an AES-256 encrypted vault, data is transmitted over TLS, and SlackClaw only reads messages in channels it has been explicitly added to. Your workspace data is never used to train AI models. Full audit logging is available for compliance reviews.

How does SlackClaw compare to Salesforce Agentforce?

Salesforce Agentforce is tightly integrated with the Salesforce ecosystem and uses per-seat pricing. SlackClaw is built on the open-source OpenClaw framework, connects to 3,000+ tools beyond Salesforce, and uses credit-based pricing with no per-seat fees. SlackClaw is ideal for teams that want powerful Slack automation without Salesforce lock-in.

What can SlackClaw automate?

SlackClaw can automate status reports across GitHub, Linear, and Notion; triage and summarize pull requests; draft and send emails; create and update tickets in Jira or Linear; run scheduled workflows like daily standups; coordinate cross-tool data retrieval; handle incident response workflows; and automate new hire onboarding — all triggered from Slack.

Does SlackClaw work with OpenClaw skills?

Yes. SlackClaw is powered by OpenClaw, so it supports custom skills written in plain English. Skills are simple documents that describe a task — no code or configuration needed. You can create skills for any repeatable workflow, trigger them with a Slack mention or run them on a schedule.

How to Connect Figma to OpenClaw in Slack

Why Connect Figma to Your Slack AI Agent?

Design handoffs are one of the most friction-heavy moments in any product team's workflow. A developer needs to check a component spec, so they open Figma, hunt for the right file, zoom into the right frame, and then head back to Slack to ask a follow-up question. A product manager wants to know whether the latest designs are ready for sprint planning — so they ping the designer, wait for a response, and manually update the Linear ticket.

None of that is complicated work. It's just tedious, interruptive, and slow. Connecting Figma to OpenClaw via SlackClaw turns these repetitive lookups and coordination tasks into simple Slack messages your AI agent handles autonomously — so your team can stay in flow.

What the Figma Integration Actually Does

Before walking through the setup, it helps to understand what you're actually getting. SlackClaw connects to Figma using the Figma REST API, authenticated via OAuth so there's no token copying, no .env file editing, and no API key management. Once connected, your OpenClaw agent can:

Retrieve file metadata, page names, and frame lists from any shared Figma file
Look up component details, including descriptions and properties
Fetch comments left on files or specific frames
Check when a file was last modified and by whom
Generate direct deep-links to specific frames or nodes
Combine Figma data with context from other tools in a single response

That last point is where things get genuinely powerful. Because SlackClaw runs on a dedicated server per team with persistent memory and context, your agent doesn't treat Figma as an isolated tool. It knows that the "Checkout Redesign" Figma file relates to the Linear project your team has been working on for three weeks, and it can cross-reference both when you ask a question.

Connecting Figma: Step-by-Step

Step 1: Open SlackClaw in Your Workspace

In your Slack workspace, open a direct message with the SlackClaw bot — or navigate to any channel where SlackClaw has been added. Type the following to bring up the integrations panel:

/slackclaw integrations

This opens the SlackClaw app home, where you'll see your currently connected tools and a searchable list of all 800+ available integrations.

Step 2: Find and Authorize Figma

Search for Figma in the integrations list. Click Connect. You'll be redirected to Figma's OAuth authorization page, where you'll log in with your Figma account and grant SlackClaw read access to your files and projects.

Note on permissions: SlackClaw requests read-only access by default. This means the agent can retrieve and reference your Figma data, but it cannot modify files, delete frames, or post comments on your behalf unless you explicitly enable write scopes in your SlackClaw settings.

Once you approve, you'll be redirected back to Slack. The integration is live immediately — no server restart, no waiting for a sync. Because your team runs on a dedicated OpenClaw server, the connection is available to everyone in your workspace right away. Learn more about our pricing page.

Step 3: Give Your Agent Some Context

SlackClaw's persistent memory means you can teach the agent about your team's Figma structure once, and it'll remember. Paste a few of your key Figma file URLs into a DM with the bot and say something like: Learn more about our integrations directory.

Remember these Figma files for our team:
- Design System: https://www.figma.com/file/abc123/Design-System
- Mobile App: https://www.figma.com/file/def456/Mobile-App-v3
- Marketing Site: https://www.figma.com/file/ghi789/Marketing-Site-2025

The agent will store these in your team's persistent context. From then on, you can refer to them by name without pasting URLs each time.

Practical Things You Can Ask Your Agent

Once Figma is connected, the real question is: what do you actually do with it? Here are some genuinely useful patterns your team can start using on day one.

Design Handoff Lookups

Instead of hunting through Figma for specs, developers can ask directly in the relevant GitHub PR thread or Linear ticket channel:

@slackclaw What are the padding and font size specs for the primary button component in our Design System file?

The agent retrieves the component details and replies in-thread, keeping context in one place.

Status Checks Before Standups

Before your daily standup, someone can ask:

@slackclaw Has the Mobile App Figma file been updated since Monday? Who made changes?

The agent checks the file's version history and last-modified metadata, giving you a quick summary without anyone needing to open Figma.

Cross-Tool Context Stitching

This is where SlackClaw's multi-tool awareness really earns its keep. Because the agent can hold context across integrations, you can ask compound questions:

@slackclaw Is the Checkout Redesign ready to hand off? Check the Figma file for completed frames and the Linear project for any open design-blocking tickets.

The agent queries both Figma and Linear in a single autonomous run, synthesizes the results, and gives you a clear go/no-go summary — the kind of answer that would normally require three different people to piece together.

Comment Monitoring

Design review feedback often gets buried in Figma comment threads that developers never see. You can ask the agent to surface them:

@slackclaw Summarize the open comments on the Marketing Site Figma file from the last week.

The agent pulls the comments, groups them by theme if there are several, and posts a digest in Slack where your team actually lives. For related insights, see OpenClaw for Slack Teams: The Complete 2026 Guide.

Combining Figma with Other Integrations

The Figma integration is most valuable when it's part of a connected workflow rather than a standalone lookup tool. Here are a few combinations worth setting up:

Figma + GitHub

When a developer opens a PR, the agent can automatically check whether the relevant Figma designs are finalized, and attach the direct frame link as a PR comment. You can set this up as a custom skill in SlackClaw — a reusable, triggerable workflow that runs without manual prompting.

Figma + Jira or Linear

When a design-related ticket moves to "In Progress" in Linear or Jira, have the agent look up the associated Figma file and post the latest frame links back to the ticket. No more broken or stale Figma links in your project management tool.

Figma + Notion

At the end of a design sprint, ask the agent to compile a summary of what was completed — pulling frame names and last-modified dates from Figma — and draft a Notion page with the results. What used to take 45 minutes of copy-pasting becomes a single Slack message.

A Note on Credits and Cost

SlackClaw uses credit-based pricing with no per-seat fees, which matters a lot for Figma-heavy workflows. Design teams often have contributors who aren't daily Slack power users — contractors, freelance designers, stakeholders who review work occasionally. With per-seat SaaS tools, you pay for every one of them. With SlackClaw's model, you pay for what the agent actually does, not for how many people have access to it. For related insights, see Set Up OpenClaw in Slack in Under 5 Minutes.

Figma lookups are lightweight API calls, so they consume minimal credits. The heavier credit usage comes from complex multi-step tasks — like the cross-tool sprint summaries described above — but even those tend to replace work that would have taken a person an hour or more.

Getting the Most Out of This Integration

A few practical tips from teams that have rolled this out:

Name your files consistently. The agent matches on file names when you reference them in conversation. If your Figma files have inconsistent or cryptic names, take ten minutes to rename them before connecting.
Use the memory feature liberally. Tell the agent which files matter, who owns what, and how your team refers to projects internally. This upfront investment pays off every day.
Build a custom skill for design handoffs. If your team does regular handoffs on a sprint cadence, encode the handoff checklist as a SlackClaw custom skill so it runs consistently every time.
Pin the agent to your design channel. Add SlackClaw to your #design or #design-review channel so queries happen where the design conversation is already happening.

Connecting Figma to OpenClaw in Slack isn't just about saving a few clicks — it's about making design context available to your whole team, in the tool they're already using, at the moment they need it. Once it's running, you'll wonder how you coordinated handoffs without it.