Slackify It

slackify-it

Rewrite text into a Slack-appropriate message. Strips email scaffolding (greetings, sign-offs), converts standard markdown to Slack's flavor (**bold** → *bold*, etc.), trims for chat context, and matches casual-professional tone.

Install

/plugin marketplace add t3spe/fat-fingers
/plugin install slackify-it@fat-fingers
/reload-plugins

Use it

Direct invocation:

/slackify-it:slackify <text to convert>

Or paste any email / writeup / AI response into a normal message and ask "slackify this" / "make this slack-appropriate" / "format for slack."

What it does

• Strips email scaffolding ("Hi team," "Best regards," signatures, "Per my last message").
• Converts markdown to Slack's flavor: **bold** → *bold*, ## headers → no headers, [text](url) → <url|text>, etc.
• Trims for chat: lead with the conclusion, use line breaks, suggest threading for long material.
• Adjusts tone: contractions, direct phrasing, Slack-appropriate openers ("Heads up", "FYI") — but only when they fit the content.

What it won't do

• Add emojis the source didn't suggest.
• Fabricate details to make it punchier.
• Translate technical content into casual; precision stays.
• Aggressively shorten content that's already short.

Plays well with

• humanize-it (sibling plugin in this marketplace) — if your source is AI-sounding and needs to go in Slack, run humanize-it first to strip the slop, then slackify-it to format for chat.

What's inside

• skills/slackify/SKILL.md — operational rules (8-step pipeline, length targets, mention semantics, Slack hard constraints)
• skills/slackify/reference.md — research grounding: Slack mrkdwn spec, empirical length data, prior-art credits (deterministic converters, LLM message generators, best-practice guides)

Version

0.2.0 — see .claude-plugin/plugin.json.