Convert Your Slack Threads Into Code with AI: Meet Kilo for Slack

Software engineers spend countless hours explaining the same bug twice: once to their team in Slack, then again to their AI coding assistant after switching to their development environment. Kilo has launched a Slack integration that eliminates this frustrating workflow by letting teams mention an AI agent directly in their existing conversations. When tagged, the bot reads the entire discussion thread, connects to GitHub repositories, and can create pull requests without anyone leaving Slack. The Kilo team has been using their own tool internally for months, turning routine conversations about bugs, feature requests, and documentation updates into immediate code changes. Unlike typical Slack bots that offer one-shot responses, this integration maintains context across multi-turn conversations and can work across multiple repositories simultaneously. The system spins up cloud agents to handle the actual coding work, meaning no local setup is required and pull requests appear ready for review within minutes of the request.