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Community Agent Template — AI skill for Claude Code

AI community

Open source AI-powered Slack community management bot with a built-in Next.js admin panel.

How to install Community Agent Template

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open vercel-labs/community-agent-template and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Community Agent Template does

Open source AI-powered Slack community management bot with a built-in Next.js admin panel. Uses Chat SDK, AI SDK, and Vercel Workflow.

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README

Community Agent Template

Open source AI-powered Slack community management bot with a built-in Next.js admin panel. Uses Chat SDK, AI SDK, and Vercel Workflow.

**Template.** Fork it, customize it, and deploy your own AI community manager with Vercel.

[![Deploy with Vercel](https://vercel.com/button)](https://vercel.com/new/clone?repository-url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fvercel-labs%2Fcommunity-agent-template&env=COMMUNITY_NAME,BETTER_AUTH_SECRET,SLACK_CLIENT_ID,SLACK_CLIENT_SECRET,SLACK_TEAM_ID&envDescription=COMMUNITY_NAME%3A%20Name%20in%20bot%20responses%20%7C%20BETTER_AUTH_SECRET%3A%20Run%20%60openssl%20rand%20-base64%2032%60%20%7C%20SLACK_CLIENT_ID%20%26%20SLACK_CLIENT_SECRET%3A%20From%20Slack%20app%20Basic%20Information%20%7C%20SLACK_TEAM_ID%3A%20Workspace%20ID.%20Add%20AI%20keys%20after%20deploy.&envLink=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fvercel-labs%2Fcommunity-agent-template%23configure-environment-variables&project-name=community-agent&repository-name=community-agent&stores=%5B%7B%22type%22%3A%22integration%22%2C%22integrationSlug%22%3A%22turso%22%7D%5D)

Features

Community manager AI—routes questions, welcomes members, surfaces unanswered threads, and flags issues to a lead. Powered by AI SDK
Channel-aware routing—configurable channel map so the bot knows your workspace layout and where to send people
Durable workflows—every LLM call and tool execution is a checkpoint with automatic retries via Vercel Workflow
Web search—Anthropic's native web search tool, scoped to your community's domains via SEARCH_DOMAINS. Runs through AI Gateway
Sandbox execution—optional bash/bash_batch tools for running commands in a sandboxed environment via the Knowledge Agent Template API
Native Slack UI—typing indicators, threaded replies, and DMs. Powered by [Chat SDK](https://chat-s