slack-announce

Productivity

Generate formatted Slack messages for team communication

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Slack Announce Skill

Generate copy-ready Slack messages for various team announcements.

When to Use

Push PR mode: announce new PR
Hotfix mode: urgent fix notification
Deploy notifications
Incident communication

Phases

Phase 1: Determine Message Type

Identify the type of announcement:

Type	Context	Priority
`pr`	New PR created	Normal
`hotfix`	Urgent production fix	High
`deploy`	Deployment to environment	Normal
`incident`	Production issue	Critical

Phase 2: Gather Context

Collect required information based on type:

For PR:

Feature name (from branch or PR title)
PR URL
Notion task URL
Reviewer name and handle
Domain name

For Hotfix:

Issue description
Affected systems
PR URL (if applicable)
Urgency level

For Deploy:

Version/tag
Environment (test/production)
Key changes summary

Phase 3: Select Emoji

By message type:

Type	Primary Emoji	Secondary Emojis
pr (feat)	🚀	📋 🔗 👀
pr (fix)	🔧	📋 🔗 👀
pr (chore)	🧹	📋 🔗 👀
pr (docs)	📚	📋 🔗 👀
pr (refactor)	♻️	📋 🔗 👀
hotfix	⚠️	🔥 🚨
deploy	✅	🎉 📦
incident	🚨	⚠️ 🔴

Phase 4: Generate Fun Closing

Select a closing that matches the PR context. Be human, be fun, be relevant.

By PR Type

Features (feat):

- "Feature flag? Where we're going, we don't need feature flags 🚗"
- "Users asked, we delivered 📦"
- "Fresh code, hot off the keyboard! ⌨️🔥"
- "Time to make some bytes dance! 💃"
- "Let's gooooo! 🎸"

Fixes (fix):

- "Bug squashed. No insects were harmed 🐛✨"
- "It's not a bug, it was an undocumented feature 📝"
- "Another bug bites the dust 🎵"
- "Sleep well tonight, this one's fixed 😴"

Refactors (refactor):

- "Same same, but different, but still same 🔄"
- "If it ain't broke... refactor it anyway ♻️"
- "Deleting code is my love language 💕"
- "Less is more. Literally, we deleted stuff 🗑️"

Chores (chore):

- "The unglamorous work that makes the magic happen ✨"
- "Housekeeping complete, the codebase says thank you 🏠"
- "Ctrl+S, Ctrl+Ship! 🚢"
- "Another day, another deploy (hopefully) 🤞"

Docs (docs):

- "Future us will thank present us 📚"
- "Documentation: because tribal knowledge doesn't scale 🧠"
- "README? More like READ-ME-PLEASE 🙏"

By Domain (Contextual)

Cursor Rules / AI Workflow:

- "Teaching the AI new tricks! 🎓🤖"
- "The machines are learning... from us, for once 🧠"
- "The rules now have rules about rules 🤯"
- "25 skills walk into a codebase... 🚶‍♂️"
- "Now with 100% more patine (it's French, we're fancy) 🥐"

Tables / Data:

- "Rows and columns, living in harmony 📊"
- "Data goes in, insights come out 🔮"

Auth / Security:

- "Keeping the bad guys out since [current_year] 🔐"
- "Trust no one. Except this PR. Trust this PR 🤝"

Payments / Billing:

- "Making money moves 💰"
- "Cha-ching! 💵"

Generic (Fallback)

- "Shipping it before my coffee gets cold ☕"
- "May the code review gods be merciful 🙏"
- "Works on my machine™ 💻"
- "One small commit for dev, one giant leap for the product 🌙"

Hotfixes (Serious but Human)

- "On it! 🔥"
- "Fix incoming, hold tight! 🏃‍♂️"
- "Crisis averted. Coffee break earned ☕"
- "The bat-signal was answered 🦇"

Selection Logic

First, try domain-specific closing if domain is detected
Then, try type-specific closing based on commit type
Fall back to generic if no match
Rotate - don't repeat the same closing twice in a row

Phase 5: Format Message

PR Template:

[emoji] **[Feature Name]**

[Two-liner: what this does + why it matters]

📋 Notion: [notion-link]
🔗 PR: [github-pr-link]
👀 Reviewer: @[handle] (auto-assigned from [domain])

[Fun closing]

Hotfix Template:

⚠️ **HOTFIX: [Issue Title]**

🔴 **Impact:** [affected systems/users]
🔧 **Fix:** [brief description]

🔗 PR: [github-pr-link]
👀 Reviewer: @[handle]

[Closing]

Deploy Template:

✅ **Deployed to [Environment]**

📦 Version: [tag/version]
📝 Changes:
- [bullet 1]
- [bullet 2]

🎉 Ship it!

Output

Present the formatted message in a copyable code block:

## Slack Message (copy-ready)

[Formatted message here - ready to paste into Slack]

Slack MCP Integration (Optional)

If Slack MCP is configured, messages can be sent automatically.

Phase 6: Send via Slack MCP

Prerequisites:

Slack MCP server installed and configured
Bot token with chat:write scope
Channel ID for announcements

Send message:

Slack MCP:
  tool: send_message
  arguments:
    channel: "[CHANNEL_ID]"
    text: "[formatted message from Phase 5]"

Fallback: If Slack MCP not available, output copy-ready message for manual posting.

Setup Instructions

See setup skill Phase 9 for Slack MCP installation.

Integration

This skill is invoked by:

push-pr.mdc - Phase 3.1 (Announce)
pr-threshold - When threshold crossed (optional notification)
hotfix/SKILL.md - Urgent notification
Deploy scripts (future)