Slack Overview
Cygent's primary home — @mentions, threaded context, smart interjection, and the Home tab
Slack is where Cygent behaves most like a teammate. It lives in your workspace as a full bot user — you tag it, it replies; you start a thread, it remembers; you discuss a protocol design in a channel it's watching, it chimes in with the security angle.
The four ways you'll interact
@mention
Tag @cygent in any channel or DM. Natural language — no command syntax. This is how most teams drive 80% of their day-to-day.
Slash commands
/cygent-audit, /cygent-review, /cygent-status and friends. Structured actions with confirmation dialogs — useful when you want a form, not a conversation. See Reference.
Home tab
Click Cygent's name in the Slack sidebar for a dashboard view: active projects, recent jobs, finding counts, and quick-action buttons. Handy when you want a bird's-eye view without opening the web dashboard.
Smart interjection
When Cygent has something genuinely useful to add to a channel conversation, it contributes unprompted. See Behavior & Autonomy for how to tune this.
Threaded conversations
Cygent remembers context within a thread. This is the main pattern for anything non-trivial:
you: @cygent can you plan how to fix H-1?
cygent: Here's a 3-step plan …
you: looks good, but use a mapping instead of an array for the allowlist
cygent: Updated the plan …
you: ship it
cygent: Opened PR #143 with verified build. ✅
Everything after the first mention stays scoped to that thread. Start a new thread when you want a clean context — Cygent still has access to project-level memory (accepted risks, architectural decisions, past findings), but the conversational buffer resets.
Channel selection
Audit completions, PR review results, and scheduled task outputs are posted to the default review channel you picked in your agent settings. You can override this per project — useful when a specific repo's results should go to a different team's channel. Configure in the dashboard under Settings → Default review channel.
Keep Cygent's notifications in a channel your team actually reads. A silent #cygent-noise channel defeats the point of shifting security left.
What Cygent can do from Slack
- Kick off audits:
@cygent audit my-repo - Review PRs:
@cygent review PR #42 in my-repo - Query findings:
@cygent show me all high findings in Vault.sol - Fix findings:
@cygent fix finding H-1(see Cygent Code) - Schedule tasks:
@cygent schedule a weekly audit every Monday at 9am EST - Explore code:
@cygent explain how withdrawCollateral handles reentrancy - Get the big picture:
@cygent give me the big picture— returns a summary of active threats, open PRs, and next steps - Join a call: paste a Google Meet link and ask Cygent to join
Anything the dashboard can do, Cygent can do from Slack. The dashboard is a view; Slack is the driver.