Highlight for Slack

Last updated: October 27, 2026

Highlight is an AI-powered productivity tool that captures context from your meetings, conversations, and connected apps, so you never lose track of what matters. The Highlight app for Slack brings that context into Slack. You can ask questions, draft messages, and get notified about meetings and tasks without switching tools.

Highlight for Slack requires a Highlight account. Visit highlightai.com to learn more and sign up.

What Highlight does in Slack

Chat with your AI assistant

Ask Highlight about your meetings, action items, and connected apps directly in Slack. Get instant answers without leaving the conversation.

Draft messages with context

Highlight helps you write follow-ups, summaries, and updates using what it knows from your meetings and workflows.

Highlight returns drafts for your approval. It never sends a message or runs an action on its own.

Stay in the loop

Get actionable notifications about your meetings and tasks in your direct messages with Highlight.

Connect your tools

Highlight pulls context from your calendar, meeting notes, and other apps you use every day, and makes it available inside Slack.

Slack plan requirements

Using the Highlight AI assistant inside Slack's app container (the assistant panel) requires a paid Slack plan. This is a Slack platform requirement. All other Highlight features work on free Slack plans too.

Where	What you can do	Slack plan
Assistant panel	Chat privately with Highlight in Slack's AI app container	Paid plans
@Highlight in channels and threads	Ask questions in the context of a conversation	Free and paid
Direct messages	Chat one on one with Highlight in its Messages tab	Free and paid
Drafted actions	Get message drafts to review before anything is sent	Free and paid
Reminders and notifications	Get actionable updates about meetings and tasks	Free and paid

Getting started

Install Highlight to Slack. Click Add to Slack and review the permissions Highlight requests. Depending on your workspace settings, an admin may need to approve the install.
Connect your Highlight account. When prompted, sign in to Highlight to link it with your Slack account. If you don't have an account yet, you can create one during this step.
Start chatting. Open Highlight from your Slack sidebar or the assistant panel, or mention @Highlight in any channel or thread. Send "help" to Highlight at any time for usage tips.

Permissions

Highlight requests only the permissions it needs to work in Slack. Bot permissions let the Highlight app read and reply where it has been added. User permissions let Highlight read what you can already see and, only after you approve a draft, send it as you.

Permission	How Highlight uses it	Type
app_mentions:read	Respond when someone mentions @Highlight in a channel or thread	Bot · Required
assistant:write	Run Highlight in Slack's assistant panel on paid plans	Bot · Required
channels:read, channels:history	Read channels Highlight has been added to, so it can answer in context	Bot · Required
im:read, im:history, im:write	Read and reply to the messages you send Highlight in its direct message	Bot · Required
mpim:read, mpim:history, mpim:write	Read and reply in group direct messages Highlight is part of	Bot · Required
chat:write	Post Highlight's answers, drafts, and notifications as the Highlight app	Bot · Required
chat:write.customize	Show Highlight's name and icon on the messages it posts	Bot · Required
commands	Run /highlight commands for help, settings, and choosing your Highlight account	Bot · Required
reactions:read, reactions:write	Read reactions on messages to Highlight and add a reaction to show it is working	Bot · Required
files:read	Open files you attach to messages you send Highlight	Bot · Required
files:write	Attach files to Highlight's replies	Bot · Required
links:read, links:write	Show previews when someone shares a Highlight link in Slack	Bot · Required
channels:read, channels:history, groups:read, groups:history	Read public and private channels you are a member of, to answer questions and draft replies	User · Required
im:read, im:history, mpim:read, mpim:history	Read your direct and group direct messages, to answer questions and draft replies	User · Required
chat:write, im:write, mpim:write	Send a message as you, only after you approve the draft	User · Required
users:read, users:read.email	Look up people in your workspace so drafts go to the right person	User · Required
reactions:read, reactions:write	Read reactions, and add a reaction as you only after you approve it	User · Required
files:read, files:write	Share a file as you after you approve it, and undo that upload	User · Required
search:read.public, search:read.private, search:read.im, search:read.mpim, search:read.files, search:read.users	Search messages, files, and people you can already see in Slack, to answer your questions	User · Required

What Highlight won't do

Send messages or take actions on your behalf. Every draft waits for your review.
Join channels on its own. Highlight only participates where it has been added or mentioned.
Show you channels, messages, or files you can't already see in Slack.
Use your Slack data to train AI models.

Your data

To access, export, or delete your data, see our Privacy Policy or contact support. Our Trust Center covers security, including SOC 2 Type 2.

About AI-generated content

Highlight uses AI models to generate responses, summaries, and message drafts. As with all AI-generated content, outputs may be inaccurate, incomplete, or out of date. Always review Highlight's output before sending or relying on it.

Troubleshooting

Why can't I see the assistant panel?

Slack's AI app container requires a paid Slack plan. On a free plan, you can still mention @Highlight, message Highlight directly, and get drafts and reminders.

@Highlight isn't responding in a channel

Highlight needs to be a member of the channel. If Slack offers to add Highlight when you mention it, accept. You can also add it from the channel's integrations settings. Then mention @Highlight again.

How do I remove Highlight from Slack?

Open Highlight's app settings in Slack and remove the app, or ask a workspace admin to remove it from your workspace's app management page.

For I (stop Highlight reading your Slack)

Open Highlight → Settings → Integrations.
Find Slack and click Disconnect.

For the whole workspace (Slack admins only)

In Slack, click the workspace name → Tools & settings → Manage apps.
Select Highlight Agent.
Click Configuration.
Scroll down and click Remove App, then confirm.

Support

Contact us directly in the app, or Email us at support@highlightai.com. You don't need an account to get help, and we respond to every request within 2 business days. You can also browse guides at help.highlightai.com.