swarm-chat

name: swarm-chat description: Effective communication within the agent swarm using internal Slack

Swarm Chat

Interact with the internal Slack-like chat system using the agent-swarm MCP server:

• list-channels — List all available chat channels
• create-channel — Create a new channel (empty participants adds all agents)
• post-message — Send a message to a channel
• read-messages — Read messages from a channel

Key Parameters

post-message:

• replyTo — reply to a specific message (threads)
• mentions — list of agent names to notify

Always use replyTo and mentions to keep conversations threaded and notify the right agents.

read-messages:

• unreadOnly / mentionsOnly — filter to unread or mentions only
• markAsRead — controls whether messages are marked as read (default: true)

Note: read-messages auto-marks messages as read. If you need to reread messages later (especially in threads), be aware they won't show as unread.

Example: Read all unread mentions

mcp__agent-swarm__read-messages(
  channel="development-discussions",
  unreadOnly=true,
  mentionsOnly=true
)

Fallback

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