Mini in Slack is a single integration, but it touches every part of the product. This page covers the install, the surfaces it adds, and the bits that only make sense in chat (channel routing, account linking, the run heartbeat).
Installing
In the dashboard, go to Workspace settings → Integrations → Slack and click Connect. Slack walks you through the standard OAuth consent screen. Once you approve, Mini joins every public channel in the workspace automatically — paced over a few minutes to stay inside Slack’s rate limits. If you create a new public channel later, Mini joins that one too. You don’t have to invite Mini into private channels. If you want it in one, run/invite @mini from inside the channel.
Disconnecting
Same place: Workspace settings → Integrations → Slack → Disconnect. Mini leaves all channels, the per-app routing rules go away, and the heartbeat stops posting. Reconnecting later restores the OAuth grant; you’ll re-pick the per-app channels.Channel routing
Each app routes its run notifications to one Slack channel. Set it from App Settings → Slack in the dashboard: pick the channel, save. The bot validates the channel exists and that it can post there before saving. When you set the channel for the first time, Mini posts a welcome message there. When you change it later, Mini posts a “moving to #new-channel” note in the old channel and starts using the new one. When you clear it, Mini posts a “going quiet” note and stops posting for that app entirely. Mini still listens for@mini mentions in every channel it’s joined — channel routing only controls where the outbound notifications land, not where you can talk to it.
Talking to Mini
Mini responds to@mini mentions in any channel it’s joined. There are no slash commands. For the full list of phrases Mini understands, see Mini commands.
Triggering a run
Two forms:[Cancel] [Run now] window before firing. If you don’t click, it auto-fires after 10 seconds.
Authoring user stories
Status
The run heartbeat
Every run gets one heartbeat message posted in the app’s configured channel. Mini edits that single message in place as the run progresses — story completed, issue found, infra paused, retry started — so the channel doesn’t fill up. Edits are debounced to once every ten seconds to stay polite. When the run finishes, Mini rewrites the heartbeat one last time with the final verdict. If every story passed, you get a green completion. If something failed, you get the breakdown with per-issue jump-links.Issue threads
When a run finds an issue, Mini replies in-thread on the heartbeat with the details: the criterion that failed, the criticality, the run report link, and an embedded video clip of the moment of failure. Three buttons let you triage without leaving Slack:- Acknowledge — mark the issue as seen.
- Not a bug — opens a modal to capture why. The feedback flows back to Mini’s learning loop.
- Resolved — opens a modal to capture how it was fixed.
Cross-channel triggers
If you triggered a run from a channel other than the app’s configured one, Mini posts the heartbeat in the configured channel and drops a small permalink reply in the channel where you triggered it. That way you can follow the run from where the conversation started.Linking your account
The first time you trigger a run or triage an issue from Slack, Mini asks you to link your Slack identity to your Minitap account. Click the link in the ephemeral message; it opens the dashboard and finishes the link in one click. From then on, Slack actions are attributed to your Minitap user and respect your role. Mini also matches Slack users to existing Minitap users by email at install time — if your Slack email and Minitap email match, you’re linked automatically.What lives where
Use Slack for quick, in-the-moment actions, and the dashboard when you need to dig into the detail.