Should Agents access to all the messages of channels or should only get what we send ?
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While building Niyam AI , we had a discussion on if we should let the agent read all the messages coming into the channel or dm , this would reduce the friction for users to enter what they worked on. But we thought of having a deeper discussion with PH Community on this when we launch.
For now it gets only what you sent to it.
Let me know what PH community and folks think about this.
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I’d keep the default exactly where you have it now: only what the user sends to the agent.
Reading every Slack message may reduce friction, but it also changes the trust contract. A time-tracking helper that I intentionally update feels like a lightweight assistant; one silently watching channels can start to feel like surveillance, even if the intent is benign.
A middle ground could be explicit “capture zones”: only this DM, only this project channel, only messages with a slash command or emoji, or only a short time window after a user says they’re logging work. That gives teams lower friction without making broad access the default.
@jim_jeffers Yes that's the plan.