Slack Bolt
Framework for building Slack apps and bots with simplified event handling.
SDKs for hosted services npm MIT Chat bots
How Slack Bolt is used
Slack Bolt is a dependency in 26 of the 6,208 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (0.5% of the 4,818 JavaScript/TypeScript ones), #28 of 253 in sdks for hosted services. Projects that use it most often also use dotenv (92.3%), Croner (88.5%), grammY (88.5%). It is more common in projects set up for OpenClaw (6.8%) than for GitHub Copilot (0.2%).
Slack Bolt popularity over time
Gid Score 48: downloads 68, use in agent projects 40, GitHub stars 30, downloads trend 45 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with Slack Bolt
| dotenv | 92.3% of Slack Bolt projects · 5.9× more than average |
|---|---|
| Croner | 88.5% of Slack Bolt projects · 127.7× more than average |
| grammY | 88.5% of Slack Bolt projects · 133.9× more than average |
| JSON5 (JavaScript) | 84.6% of Slack Bolt projects · 101.0× more than average |
| qrcode-terminal | 84.6% of Slack Bolt projects · 145.9× more than average |
| tsx | 84.6% of Slack Bolt projects · 5.6× more than average |
| Clack Prompts | 80.8% of Slack Bolt projects · 80.9× more than average |
| Pi-AI | 80.8% of Slack Bolt projects · 179.1× more than average |
By coding agent
| Claude Code | 0.7% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| OpenClaw | 6.8% of projects set up for it |
| Gemini CLI | 2.8% of projects set up for it |
| GitHub Copilot | 0.2% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list Slack Bolt as a dependency.
Install
| Package | npm install @slack/bolt |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | TypeScript / JavaScript (21), Python (5) |
| Example projects | Bitterbot-AI/bitterbot-desktop, ArgentAIOS/argentos-core, raucvr/Group-Goki, geongeorge/nakedclaw, hashSTACS-Global/EnClaws |
Alternatives to Slack Bolt
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