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Create a managed agent on Anthropic Claude and connect it to Slack with the Novu CLI. No bridge server is required. For Claude Platform on AWS, see Connect AWS Claude managed agent. To try without your own API key, select Try a demo agent in the CLI (npx novu connect).

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Prerequisites

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Connect Claude

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Run the CLI

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Choose Claude Managed Agent

When the CLI asks Where your agent runs?, select Claude Managed Agent.The CLI prompts for your Anthropic API key (sk-ant-…). Paste the key from the Anthropic console. Novu verifies it and creates a Claude runtime integration in your environment.
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Create the agent

  1. Describe the agent in plain text, for example:
  2. Novu generates a name, identifier, system prompt, tools, MCP servers, and skills from that description.
  3. Review the fields. Select Create this agent, or Regenerate from description to revise.
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Connect Slack

When prompted to pick a channel, select Slack.
  1. Open https://api.slack.com/apps.
  2. Under App Configuration Tokens, click Generate Token.
  3. Copy the access token (starts with xoxe.xoxp-).
  4. Paste it into the CLI. Novu uses it once to create the Slack app and does not store it.
  5. Follow the install link to add the bot to your workspace.
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Send a message

Open Slack and DM the agent (or @mention it in a channel). If the generated config includes Linear or GitHub MCP servers, the agent may prompt you to authorize them in-thread.Manage channels and conversations in the Novu dashboard.
Non-interactive / CI: npx novu connect --runtime claude --anthropic-api-key <key>. See Create an agent for the REST API.

Copy an example agent description

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Next steps

AWS Claude

Same flow with Claude Platform on AWS credentials.

Concepts

Connectors, MCP servers, skills, and conversation lifecycle.

Configure MCP servers

Enable Linear, GitHub, Notion, and other MCP tools.

Conversation observability

Inspect live conversations in the dashboard.