Get started as a user

Glean in Slack brings enterprise search and AI-powered answers directly into your Slack workspace. You can search across all connected data sources, get instant answers to questions, chat with Glean Assistant in the sidebar, and subscribe to a daily digest of the topics that matter to you.

What Glean in Slack can do for you

• Search everything from Slack — find documents, tickets, wiki pages, and more across all connected data sources without leaving Slack.
• Get automatic answers — when you ask a question in a channel where Glean is active, Glean detects it and offers an AI-generated answer.
• Chat with Assistant — open the Glean sidebar in Slack to have a full conversation with Glean Assistant or run specialized agents.
• Turn conversations into code — use Code Writer to turn Slack discussions into draft pull requests in GitHub.
• Stay up to date — subscribe to a daily digest of channels and topics you care about. (Not available if your organization uses Slack RTS — contact your admin to confirm.)

Find Glean in Slack

There are several ways to interact with Glean in your Slack workspace:

• The /glean command — type /glean followed by a search query in any channel to search across your company's data sources.
• @Glean mentions — mention @Glean in a channel to ask a question and get an AI-generated answer.
• The Glean sidebar — click the Glean icon in the top-right corner of Slack to open the sidebar and chat with Assistant or run agents.
• Automatic answers — in channels where Glean is active, Glean detects questions and offers to generate answers for you.

Quick start

1. Type /glean followed by a search query in any Slack channel. Glean returns results from across your connected data sources. For more details, see Search with /glean.
2. Ask a question in a channel where Glean is active. Glean detects the question and shows a prompt so you can view a generated answer. For more details, see Ask questions in channels.
3. Click the Glean icon in the top-right corner of Slack to open the sidebar. From there, you can chat with Assistant or run agents. For more details, see Use Glean in the sidebar.

Personal settings

You can control whether Glean suggests answers when you ask questions in Slack channels.

To update this setting:

1. Go to Glean Settings in the Glean web app.
2. Find the Show suggestions for questions asked in Slack toggle.
3. Turn the toggle off to stop receiving suggested answers, or turn it on to re-enable them.

This setting applies only to your account and does not affect other users in your workspace.

Need a feature enabled?

Glean in Slack is set up by your Glean admin. If a feature isn't available, see Glean in Slack admin guide.