Adds agents to collaboration channels
Brings AI agents into Slack, Teams, Discord, or Telegram channels as named participants.
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Switch
Open-source layer that puts AI agents in Slack, Teams, Discord, and Telegram.
Product brief
What Switch does.
Switch brings AI agents into the collaboration tools your team already uses. Agents join as named participants in your Slack, Teams, Discord, or Telegram channels, sharing the same context and history as your team. Connect an agent once and use it across projects. Each room carries its own context, participants, and rules. Works with Claude Code, OpenAI, Google ADK, LangChain, and more. Open source, self-hostable, running in minutes.
Why we selected it
A practical, open-source way to deploy existing agents where teams already collaborate, with per-room context and self-hosting for control.
- Best for
- Teams operationalizing AI agents
- Category
- Coding
- Daily picks
- 1
- First selected
- 2026-09-08
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Capability scan
What it can help with.
Only capabilities supported by the product information we collected are listed here.
Maintains room-specific context
Gives each room its own context, participants, and rules, while agents share the channel history and context with the team.
Reuses connected agents
Lets a team connect an agent once and use it across projects.
Supports multiple agent frameworks
Works with Claude Code, OpenAI, Google ADK, LangChain, and more.
Offers open-source self-hosting
Is open source and self-hostable.
Best-fit use cases
Place an existing AI agent in a Slack channel where a team coordinates work.
Use the same connected agent across multiple projects while keeping each room's context separate.
Set different participants and rules for agent interactions in different collaboration rooms.
Self-host an agent collaboration setup for a team.
FAQ
Before you open it.
What is Switch?
Switch brings AI agents into collaboration tools including Slack, Teams, Discord, and Telegram.
How do agents appear in a channel?
Agents join as named participants and share the same context and history as the team in that channel.
Can one agent be used across projects?
Yes. Switch says an agent can be connected once and used across projects.
How is context organized?
Each room has its own context, participants, and rules.
Is Switch open source?
Yes. The product is described as open source and self-hostable.