# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Add Slack channel history read capability as agent tool

## Open now

- 2 issues, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- #6345: Feature: Slack gateway should expose conversations.history as an agent tool
- #35291: feat: Slack adapter — add channel/DM history read scopes and message.channels event subscription
- PR #54535: feat(slack): add read-only Slack channel history tool
- _Broad area: open items may be separate problems._

These items collectively address exposing Slack's conversations.history API as a read-only tool for agents, including the necessary OAuth scopes, event subscriptions, and gateway integration.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 2 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 1 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 0 PR(s) closed without merging.
- No fix has been merged to main; one or more PRs were attempted (see below).
- **Recommended:** review the prior/competing PR(s) below. A fix was attempted but not merged; your case may extend or revive that work.

## Maintainer resolution verdict

- Internal-tracker verdict over this cluster's issue members: `unresolved`. This is distinct from the fix status above. Weigh it yourself.

## How this cluster was grouped

- Link evidence (`STRUCTURAL_PARTIAL`): some members are connected by structural evidence (shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference); the rest are joined by an automated relevance judgement over their text.
- Members outside that structural core may belong to a different underlying problem.
- Pairwise link density `0.45`: the share of member pairs that carry a link, counting a structural link in full and a relevance-only link at 0.36. `1.00` means every pair is linked.

## Open related issues

- #6345: Feature: Slack gateway should expose conversations.history as an agent tool
- #35291: feat: Slack adapter — add channel/DM history read scopes and message.channels event subscription

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#54535: feat(slack): add read-only Slack channel history tool**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `14202a6df2f52433efed64efed71c8f63324c8b7`, `c709a8605`, `#1`
  - files: `agent/tool_dispatch_helpers.py`, `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `gateway/run.py`, `gateway/session.py`, `gateway/session_context.py`, `plugins/platforms/slack/adapter.py`, `tests/agent/test_tool_dispatch_helpers.py`, `tests/gateway/test_slack_log_noise.py`, `tests/tools/test_slack_tool.py`, `tests/tools/test_tool_result_storage.py`, `tools/slack_tool.py`, `tools/tool_result_storage.py`, `toolsets.py`, `website/docs/reference/tools-reference.md`, `website/docs/reference/toolsets-reference.md`, `website/docs/user-guide/messaging/slack.md`

## Fix status

- No merged fix on record.
- Subsystem: `agent`