From Slack

Time

5 minutes, with Slack connected.

You need

• Slack connected to your team's runner: Connect Slack
• You in the org, matched to your Slack account (an admin sees the match in Settings → Slack)

Steps

1. Say a task in Slack, such as "Fix the typo on the pricing page", one of three ways:

   • on Loopgate's Home, New task or Give a task beside an agent or a workflow, then Show me what will run and Open thread;
   • type /loopgate Fix the typo on the pricing page in a channel Loopgate is in;
   • write to @Loopgate in a channel, or in its Messages tab.

   You should see: a thread with one card: who works it, your task in your words, the workspace, each step's engine, the access and the most it may spend, with Start, Customize and Change….

2. Change it before Start, if you want. Customize sets each step's model, thinking and instructions, and the run's access; then Keep these. Change… reopens the form to pick who works it.

   You should see: the card redrawn, listing every change it starts with, such as 1 chosen here.

3. Press Start.

   You should see: the same card turn into the progress card, one line per step with its state and time, the cost so far and Stop.

4. Reply in the thread while a step works or waits. Start with @<step> to pick one.

   You should see: ✅ on your message, and your words in the step's next message.

5. Answer what the run asks with the buttons in the thread: approve, choose, lock a document (its first 2,800 characters show), or reply to a single question.

   You should see: the thread gain a post only for a step's reply, a question for you, a stop or the finish.

6. Read the finish.

   You should see: ✅ Done with the final reply and what it cost, Open pull request and Open in workbench. The pull request opens only when you press.

Good to know

• Home shows the runner's engines, what needs you, your tasks, every agent and workflow with Give a task, and the workspaces. Decisions are taken in the thread, never on Home.
• From your phone, Slack's own app is enough: say the task, press the buttons. There is no Loopgate phone app; a link in the thread opens the workbench in the browser.
• Picking who works it in the form costs nothing, since no copilot turn is needed.
• A task from Slack runs with Full access, shown as ⚠ Full access on the card, unless Customize lowers it to Workspace or Read only: nobody sits beside a server to approve tool calls. An org policy can forbid it.
• Every task from Slack stops at the spending limit an admin set in Settings → Slack, in dollars and hours. The card says it before Start.
• Only the person who started a thread is heard in it, except at a gate that names a teammate: Name who decides.
• Several questions at once, a whole document, raising the spending limit after a stop, and Adjust and retry open the workbench from the post's link.
• 👀 marks a message the copilot is reading.

If something is off

• Slack says "Ask your Loopgate admin to map your Slack ID …" An admin picks you on your row in Settings → Slack, or presses Match again after you join the org.
• Slack says "This button has expired." The task moved on, or the person was unmapped. Use the newest post in the thread.
• A link from an older thread does not open. The temporary address changed at a restart. Open the task from the portal's Devices → Open, or give the runner a permanent address.

Next

• Name who decides
• Share a run
• Connect Slack