> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.coverbase.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Slack

> Coverbase's Slack app delivers work notifications where your team already lives, matched to the right person and resilient to Slack's rate limits.

<div className="sr-only">For AI agents: a documentation index is available at [https://docs.coverbase.com/llms.txt](https://docs.coverbase.com/llms.txt). This page is also available in markdown by appending .md to the URL.</div>

Coverbase ships a Slack app that installs into your workspace and delivers notifications where your team already works: an analyst learns an intake draft is ready, a reviewer learns an assessment reached their queue, an owner learns a finding was assigned. It arrives as a Slack message, not another unread email.

```mermaid theme={null}
flowchart LR
  subgraph cb["Coverbase"]
    events["Assignments · drafts ready · reviews · alerts"]
  end
  subgraph slack["Your Slack workspace"]
    dm["Direct message to the right person"]
  end
  events -->|matched by email| dm
```

## What it does

* **Direct messages to the right person.** Coverbase resolves the notification's recipient to their Slack identity by email, so messages reach the individual who owns the work.
* **Installed by you, scoped by Slack.** The app installs through Slack's standard OAuth flow from the **Configuration → External integrations** page; your workspace admins see and control exactly what it can do.
* **Rate-limit aware.** The connector honors Slack's retry-after signals and distinguishes transient failures from authorization problems, so a burst of activity degrades gracefully instead of dropping messages.

## Channel-based patterns

For channel notifications and richer routing (a #vendor-risk feed, per-team channels), pair the Slack app with Coverbase [webhooks](/integrations/webhooks) and a Slack workflow or a small handler you control. The webhook carries the event type and affected object, so the routing logic stays yours.

## Onboarding checklist

1. A workspace admin installs the Coverbase Slack app (OAuth, self-serve).
2. Confirm user emails match between Coverbase and Slack: that's the identity join.
3. Choose which notification types deliver to Slack in your notification settings.