> ## Documentation Index
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> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Qontext Tag in Slack

> Ask your context repository from any Slack channel

<Info>
  **Early access.** Qontext Tag is not generally available yet. Contact [support@qontext.ai](mailto:support@qontext.ai) to enable it for your workspace.
</Info>

## Overview

**Qontext Tag** puts Qontext inside a tool your team already works in. In Slack, you tag `@Qontext` in a channel or a thread and it answers from your [context repository](/context-repository/overview): the place where Qontext keeps your company knowledge structured and current, so it serves your agents as a source of truth.

The answer to most questions asked in Slack already exists somewhere: a document, a CRM record, an earlier thread. Finding it means leaving the conversation or interrupting whoever knows. Qontext Tag answers in place, from one source that stays current.

<Info>
  Slack can also work in the other direction. As a **data source**, Slack syncs messages and thread replies from the channels you choose into your context repository. See [Slack as a data source](/sources/slack).
</Info>

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## Install Qontext for Slack

<Steps>
  <Step title="Open Clients in Qontext">
    In the [Qontext app](https://app.qontext.ai), go to **Clients** and select **Qontext Tag**.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Add Qontext to Slack">
    Click **Add to Slack**, review the requested permissions on Slack's consent screen, and click **Allow**.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Invite Qontext to a channel">
    In Slack, type `/invite @Qontext` in each channel where it should answer.
  </Step>
</Steps>

You need a Qontext workspace, and a Slack admin or a member permitted to install apps.

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## How it works in Slack

Add `@Qontext` to a question in any channel or thread it belongs to. It searches your context repository and answers as a threaded reply. Follow-up questions in the same thread keep context.

| Use case                                      | Example                                                                 |
| --------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Settle a question without interrupting anyone | `@Qontext do we have a standard answer for the SOC 2 question in RFPs?` |
| Check what was already decided                | `@Qontext what did we agree on for the Acme renewal?`                   |
| Look up a process mid-conversation            | `@Qontext which onboarding steps apply to an enterprise customer?`      |
| Brief yourself before a call                  | `@Qontext summarize where we stand with Acme`                           |

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## What Qontext Tag can do

* Answer from everything in your context repository, in the thread where you asked
* Answer in any channel it has been added to
* Hold a conversation: follow-ups keep context

Its boundaries:

* **Read-only.** It never changes your context repository. To write context, use the [Qontext app](https://app.qontext.ai), the [API](/interfaces/api), or an [MCP client](/interfaces/MCP).
* **It only posts its own replies.** It never edits or deletes anything in Slack.
* **Slack history is not automatic.** It answers from Slack conversations only if you sync those channels as a [data source](/sources/slack).

<Warning>
  While Qontext Tag is in early access it reads every file and folder in the workspace when it answers: [access controls](/features/access-management) do not scope it per user or per group yet. Answers are posted where the question was asked, so everyone in that channel can see them.
</Warning>

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## Privacy & security

* In Slack, Qontext only sees the channels you add it to.
* All data is encrypted in transit (TLS) and at rest.
* ISO 27001 certified and GDPR-compliant, hosted in the EU (AWS Frankfurt), with on-premise deployment available.
* Your data is never used to train or fine-tune AI models.

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