AI assistant that lives in Slack and carries out research and repetitive work for teams
Switch by SandboxAQ
New· 6Open-source framework that brings any AI agent into Slack, Teams and Discord as a named participant
- Team Communication Software
TrustList summary
Switch, published by SandboxAQ, places AI agents inside the chat tools teams already use. Each agent takes a seat in a channel under its own name, working from the conversation record that the human members see. The code was open-sourced on 26 August 2026.
What Switch offers
- Chat platform support: Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, Telegram and Mattermost.
- Any agent or provider: agents from different vendors and frameworks can join if they follow the protocol.
- Per-room context: one agent can serve several projects, each keeping its own participants and rules.
- Channel design: set instructions, hand out roles and pass work as tracked tasks.
- Access control: defines who can talk to which agent.
Clients
Teams that want agent work to happen in the thread where decisions are made, using agents they already have.
Key facts
- Maker: SandboxAQ
- Hosting: self-hostable
- Status: guardrails and cost reporting are listed as coming next
Summary written by TrustList from the business's own published information, Oct 2026.
Categories & features
- Team Communication Software
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Updated 9/16/2026
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