Slack responses: streaming, live actions & rich formatting

Better Slack responses for Dust agents

Three improvements to how Dust agents respond in Slack, shipping together.

🔄 Smoother streaming

Agent responses now appear in real time as they're being generated, using Slack's native streaming. The experience feels faster and more alive, no more waiting for a full response to land before you can start reading !

🔎 See what your agent is doing

While an agent works, a live progress indicator shows which tools it's using and what it's doing with them. For web searches, you can see the query it ran. For browsing, you can see the sites it visited and the sources it pulled from. Once the agent is done, the indicator disappears cleanly.

✨ Better formatted responses

Tables, dividers, and code blocks now render properly in Slack. Agents that output structured content like pipeline summaries, incident reports, or side-by-side comparisons will now display the way they were meant to, without workarounds.

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Responses that include file uploads use the previous format for now.

🔥 Concrete Use Cases

All your current slack use cases, enhanced !

🚀 How to access it?

This feature is rolling out progressively to all Slack users this week. No action required on your part, you'll automatically see these improvements in your Slack workspace when they're available.