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Slack App permissions
Updated over a week ago

The DX Slack App requests OAuth permissions scopes that are required for its functionality. Slack publishes guidance about permissions scopes in their help center, which you may find helpful to review.

Bot token scopes

DX uses the bot token scopes listed below:

This permission allows the DX bot to post messages to channels and users. We use this permission to send Slack notifications.

This permission allows us to list users in your Slack workspace. We use this to handle user provisioning in DX.

This permission allows us to access email addresses of users in your Slack workspace. We use this for user provisioning.

These permissions allow us to get public and private channel names that the DX bot can post messages to. We use this permission to let you specify Slack channels to send team notifications to.

DX does not gain access to Slack messages.

This permission allows us to provide a Slack shortcut which allows users to clip Slack messages to their DX workspace to store as notes.

User token scopes

DX uses the user token scopes listed below:

This permission lets us send DMs and surveys on behalf of users who explicitly authorize DX to do so. Access tokens are retained for only 30 minutes.

These permissions enable Sign in with Slack for DX accounts where this feature is enabled.

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