Automate Slack with Hermes Agent

Send channel messages, schedule announcements, share media, and streamline team communications — all from the command line or through your AI agent.

Setup Guide GitHub

Please make sure there is always a human in the loop.

Post to Slack in Seconds

Terminal

# Install the skill
npx skills add gitroomhq/postiz-agent

# Set your API key
export POSTIZ_API_KEY=your_api_key

# Find your Slack integration
postiz integrations:list

# Send a message to a Slack channel
postiz posts:create \
  -c "Team update: deployment complete" \
  --settings '{"channel":"C12345"}' \
  -i "your-slack-integration-id"

Slack-Specific Features

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Channel Messaging

Post messages to any Slack channel your bot has access to. Share updates, announcements, and notifications automatically.

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Scheduled Messages

Schedule messages for the perfect time. Queue up announcements, reminders, and updates to post when your team is most active.

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Media Sharing

Attach images, files, and rich media to your Slack messages. Share screenshots, reports, and visual updates with your team.

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Team Communications

Automate recurring team updates, standup summaries, and status reports across multiple channels simultaneously.

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Bot Integration

Leverage Slack bot tokens for seamless posting. Your AI agent authenticates once and posts on behalf of your workspace.

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Multi-Channel Posting

Target different channels for different content types. Send engineering updates to #dev and marketing wins to #general.

How It Works

Find Your Slack Integration

List your connected accounts and grab your Slack integration ID. You can also fetch available settings to see what options are supported.

Discovery

# List all integrations
postiz integrations:list

# Filter for Slack
postiz integrations:list | jq \
  '.[] | select(.identifier=="slack")'

# Get Slack settings schema
postiz integrations:settings <slack-id>

Choose Your Channel

Identify the Slack channel ID where you want to post. You can find channel IDs in Slack by right-clicking a channel and selecting 'View channel details'.

Channel Setup

# Channel IDs look like C12345
# Find them in Slack:
#   Right-click channel > View channel details
#   The ID is at the bottom of the dialog

# Or use Slack's API directly
# to list channels programmatically

Create Your Post

Send a message to your Slack channel with the channel ID in settings. Schedule it for later or post immediately.

Post Creation

postiz posts:create \
  -c "Team update: deployment complete" \
  --settings '{"channel":"C12345"}' \
  -i "slack-id"

# Schedule for later
postiz posts:create \
  -c "Reminder: standup in 15 minutes" \
  -s "2025-01-15T09:45:00Z" \
  --settings '{"channel":"C12345"}' \
  -i "slack-id"

Slack Settings Reference

Every Slack post accepts these platform-specific settings via the --settings flag.

Field	Type	Required	Description
`__type`	string	Yes	Must be "slack"
`channel`	string	Yes	Slack channel ID (e.g. C12345)

Common Configurations

Copy-paste these settings for common Slack posting scenarios.

General Channel Announcement

settings.json

{
  "channel": "C12345"
}

Engineering Updates

settings.json

{
  "channel": "C67890"
}

Marketing Channel Post

settings.json

{
  "channel": "CABCDE"
}

What is Hermes Agent?

Hermes Agent is an open-source AI agent framework by Nous Research — “the agent that grows with you.” It's a flexible platform for building and running AI agents that can execute real-world tasks.

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Grows With You

Hermes Agent learns and adapts to your workflows over time. The more you use it, the better it understands your social media strategy and content style.

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Open-Source Framework

Built by Nous Research, Hermes Agent is fully open-source. Customize and extend it to fit your exact social media automation needs.

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Tool Execution

Schedule recurring tasks with cron jobs. Hermes Agent can post your Slack messages on a schedule without you having to ask each time.

How Postiz Works with Hermes Agent

When you install Postiz Agent globally, Hermes Agent automatically discovers it by reading the bundled SKILL.md file. This file tells Hermes Agent what commands are available, what environment variables are needed, and how to compose Slack messages with the right settings.

✓Install Postiz Agent globally with npx skills add
✓Hermes Agent discovers Postiz through tool execution framework
✓POSTIZ_API_KEY must be set in environment
✓All Postiz commands become available as agent tools
✓Works with any compatible LLM backend

Install Postiz

# Install the Postiz skill
npx skills add gitroomhq/postiz-agent

# Set your API key
export POSTIZ_API_KEY=your_api_key

# Hermes Agent discovers Postiz
# through its tool execution framework
hermes tools list

Slack Posting with Hermes Agent

Hermes Agent reads Postiz commands through its tool system, discovers your integrations, and handles the entire posting workflow — from content creation to scheduling.

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From Any Chat App

Hermes Agent reads Postiz commands throu...

Send a message to Hermes Agent from your favorite chat app. It runs as a persistent daemon on your machine, so it picks up your message, discovers your Slack workspace via Postiz, and sends the message to the right channel — all while you go about your day.

Hermes Agent

You: Post to Slack about our new
  feature launch, schedule for tomorrow
  at 9am

Hermes: I'll handle that! Let me:
  1. Find your Slack integration
  2. Compose your post content
  3. Schedule for tomorrow 9:00 AM

  Done! Post scheduled successfully.
  Post ID: abc-123

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Scheduled & Proactive

Hermes Agent supports scheduled tas...

Hermes Agent supports cron-based heartbeat tasks. Set up a recurring job that sends daily standup reminders or weekly status updates to your Slack channels automatically — no manual trigger needed.

hermes-config.yaml

scheduled_tasks:
  - name: daily_social_posts
    schedule: "0 9 * * 1-5"
    prompt: |
      Check ~/content/posts for new
      .txt files. For each one, read
      the content and schedule a post
      to Slack for today at noon.
      Move posted files to
      ~/content/published.

Why Hermes Agent + Postiz for Slack

Hermes Agent makes Postiz a natural fit for your Slack workflow. The agent discovers all available commands and autonomously chains them together.

✓Open-source and fully customizable for your Slack workflow
✓Grows and adapts to your content strategy over time
✓Tool execution framework discovers Postiz commands automatically
✓Scheduled tasks for hands-free daily posting
✓Cross-post to Slack + other platforms in a single conversation
✓Works with any LLM backend — not locked to a single provider

SKILL.md (auto-discovered)

---
name: postiz
description: Social media automation
  CLI for scheduling posts across
  30+ platforms including Slack
metadata:
  hermes-agent:
    requirements:
      env:
        - POSTIZ_API_KEY
      binaries:
        - postiz
---

# Available Commands
- postiz integrations:list
- postiz integrations:settings <id>
- postiz posts:create
- postiz upload <file>
- postiz analytics:platform <id>

# Slack Settings
channel (required)

Also Works with Claude Code

Postiz Agent works as a CLI tool with any AI agent that can execute shell commands — including Anthropic's Claude Code.

Claude Code

by Anthropic

Claude reads the SKILL.md file to learn all available Postiz commands, then autonomously discovers your Slack integration, identifies the correct channel, and sends your message.

Claude Code

> Post a deployment update to #engineering
  on Slack

Claude will automatically run:
  postiz integrations:list
  postiz posts:create \
    -c "Deployment v2.4.1 complete" \
    --settings '{"channel":"C12345"}' \
    -i "slack-id"

Slack + Other Platforms

Post the same announcement to Slack and other platforms in a single command. Each platform gets its own settings.

Terminal

# Post an announcement to Slack and Discord simultaneously
postiz posts:create \
  -c "New feature released: dark mode is here!" \
  -s "2025-01-15T09:00:00Z" \
  --settings '{"channel":"C12345"}' \
  -i "slack-id,discord-id"

# Batch schedule a week of Slack updates
for day in 1 2 3 4 5; do
  postiz posts:create \
    -c "Daily standup reminder - Day $day" \
    -s "2025-03-0${day}T09:00:00Z" \
    --settings '{"channel":"C12345"}' \
    -i "slack-id"
done

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