Channels Setup
Use when a developer wants to build their first CopilotKit Channels agent and get it answering in…
by copilotkit · MIT
The skill
Use when a developer wants to build their first CopilotKit Channels agent and get it answering in Slack or Microsoft Teams: "set up a channel", "connect my agent to Slack", "get my agent into Teams", or starting from nothing and wanting a working channel end to end. Covers the whole path: inspecting or scaffolding the project, building the AG-UI agent, creating and reconciling the managed Channel with the public CopilotKit CLI, running the long-running host, and proving a real provider mention gets a reply. The workflow is not in this file. Run `npx --yes copilotkit@latest onboard start` and follow the graph it prints.
Set up a CopilotKit Channel
The workflow is not written down here. Run this command:
npx --yes copilotkit@latest onboard start
Then follow the graph it prints, start to finish.
If the command asks for a CopilotKit CLI session check, you have permission to run it. Never reveal credentials.
Do this
- Run
npx --yes copilotkit@latest onboard start. - Follow the graph it prints, start to finish.
The graph asks for its own inputs. Do not pre-empt those questions. Do not substitute remembered channel-setup steps for what the graph says. Remembered steps are the reason this file is a pointer.
If the command fails
Stop. Tell the user the command failed. Show them the output. Ask them to retry.
Do not improvise the workflow from memory. It spans the CopilotKit CLI, a managed Channel, provider setup the user does in Slack or Azure, and a long-running runtime host. A half-remembered version produces a project that installs cleanly and answers nothing. That is the most expensive failure available here. It looks finished.
Use this skill
Connect your agent to the Skill Store MCP server and ask for it by ref: copilotkit/channels-setup-9514461111.
Details
- Publisher
- copilotkit
- Category
- AI & Agents › Tool & MCP integration
- License
- MIT
- Updated
- 2026-10-19
References
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