Slack

Changes to Ara's Slack connection.
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Source control

August 8, 2026

  • Hardened how agent sandboxes authenticate to Git. The credential is no longer written into the cloned repository’s .git/config or passed on a git command line; it is supplied to Git from the environment for the life of the run only. Cloning, fetching and pushing are unchanged.

Slack

August 8, 2026

  • A Slack thread now stays one session even after a run finishes. Short runs complete in seconds, so a follow-up almost always landed on a finished run and started an unrelated new session; it now continues the same conversation.
  • A Slack thread now stays one session. A follow-up used to open a fresh, unrelated session in the webapp each time; the thread now carries its conversation forward, and a reply to a still-running session steers it instead of starting a second one.
  • Ara now names the actual command it is running while it works, instead of narrating its own thinking.
  • A Slack follow-up now shows the person who sent it, with their name and avatar, instead of appearing as an unnamed teammate in the session.
  • A launch no longer announces which repo it picked. Dropped the instant “On it” reply. The 👀 reaction is the receipt, so an unambiguous request goes straight to work and the thread holds the answer.
  • Replying to a running session now steers that session instead of starting a second one. Previously a mid-task correction raced its own original, and both runs answered.
  • Added live session activity in the thread. A running session now names what it is working on as it goes, and finishes as a plain answer with a link to the session. Requires a paid Slack plan.
  • Simplified how Ara talks in Slack: no status badges or button rows, just a sentence, the answer, and a link to the session.
  • Fixed the sender details on Slack-started sessions. A session opened from Slack now records the name, email, and avatar of the person who asked for it, instead of leaving them blank.
  • Fixed the channel name shown on Slack-started sessions, which previously fell back to no channel at all.

July 12, 2026

  • Bound each connected Slack team to one Ara workspace.
  • Added sessions from channels and threads by mentioning @Ara.
  • Kept follow-up replies and session progress in the same Slack thread.
  • Linked Slack-origin session messages back to their exact channel message.

Open Plugins in your Ara workspace to connect Slack.