Transport — Messaging channels # Slack Human-facing chat and mail channels agents speak. The default enterprise channel — agents listen, reply, and post via Bolt apps or incoming webhooks. [slack.com ↗](https://slack.com/) MIX ## Who speaks it - 06[ops agents](https://www.agentlist.io/categories/ops-agent) - 04[AI employees](https://www.agentlist.io/categories/digital-employee) - 03[cloud agents](https://www.agentlist.io/categories/cloud-agent) - 02[personal agents](https://www.agentlist.io/categories/personal-agent) - 02[agent services](https://www.agentlist.io/categories/agent-services) - 01[AI IDEs](https://www.agentlist.io/categories/ai-ide) - 01[CLI agents](https://www.agentlist.io/categories/cli-agent) - 01[research agents](https://www.agentlist.io/categories/research-agent) BY ## Vendors (20) - [Anysphere](https://www.agentlist.io/ai/anysphere) - [Arcade](https://www.agentlist.io/ai/arcade) - [Cleric](https://www.agentlist.io/ai/cleric) - [Cognition](https://www.agentlist.io/ai/cognition) - [Community / OSS](https://www.agentlist.io/ai/community) - [Composio](https://www.agentlist.io/ai/composio) - [Datadog](https://www.agentlist.io/ai/datadog) - [Decagon](https://www.agentlist.io/ai/decagon) - [Dropzone AI](https://www.agentlist.io/ai/dropzone) - [Factory AI](https://www.agentlist.io/ai/factory) - [incident.io](https://www.agentlist.io/ai/incident-io) - [Intercom](https://www.agentlist.io/ai/intercom) - [Lindy](https://www.agentlist.io/ai/lindy) - [Nous Research](https://www.agentlist.io/ai/nous) - [OpenAI](https://www.agentlist.io/ai/openai) - [OpenClaw Foundation](https://www.agentlist.io/ai/openclaw) - [Resolve](https://www.agentlist.io/ai/resolve) - [Roo Code Inc.](https://www.agentlist.io/ai/roo-code) - [Rootly](https://www.agentlist.io/ai/rootly) - [Sierra](https://www.agentlist.io/ai/sierra) MATRIX ## Agents on this wire (20) [Cursor Anysphere · ai-ide editor/api · local/cloud · Hobby free; Pro $20/mo; Pro+ $60; Ultra $200; Teams $40/user](https://www.agentlist.io/systems/cursor) [Devin Cognition · cloud-agent cli/editor/api · cloud/local · Free; Pro $20/mo; Max $200; Teams $80 + $40/seat; Enterprise custom](https://www.agentlist.io/systems/devin) [OpenHands Community / OSS · cli-agent cli/api/editor · local/cloud · Free OSS self-host; Cloud free tier + $20/mo](https://www.agentlist.io/systems/openhands) [Factory Droids Factory AI · cloud-agent cli/api · local/cloud · Droid Core free; Pro $20/mo; Plus $100; Max $200; Teams/Enterprise quote](https://www.agentlist.io/systems/droid) [Roomote Roo Code Inc. · cloud-agent api · cloud/local · Self-host free ≤10 users; Cloud from $49/mo](https://www.agentlist.io/systems/roomote) [OpenClaw OpenClaw Foundation · personal-agent cli/api · local · Free OSS (MIT), 501(c)(3)-stewarded; BYO model keys](https://www.agentlist.io/systems/openclaw) [Hermes Agent Nous Research · personal-agent cli/api · local/cloud · Free OSS; BYO model keys (Nous Portal, OpenRouter, or any endpoint)](https://www.agentlist.io/systems/hermes-agent) [Sierra Sierra · digital-employee chat/voice/api · cloud · Outcome-based (per resolved conversation); enterprise contracts](https://www.agentlist.io/systems/sierra) [Decagon Decagon · digital-employee chat/voice/api · cloud · Enterprise; per-resolution or per-conversation pricing — quote-based](https://www.agentlist.io/systems/decagon) [Fin Intercom · digital-employee chat/api · cloud · $0.99 per resolution; bundled allowances inside Intercom seats](https://www.agentlist.io/systems/fin) [Lindy Lindy · digital-employee chat/api · cloud · Free tier; Pro from ~$49/mo — credit-based, higher tiers scale on tasks](https://www.agentlist.io/systems/lindy) [Cleric Cleric · ops-agent chat/api · cloud · Enterprise (quote-based)](https://www.agentlist.io/systems/cleric) [Resolve Resolve · ops-agent chat/api · cloud · Enterprise (quote-based)](https://www.agentlist.io/systems/resolve) [incident.io incident.io · ops-agent chat/api · cloud · Free tier; per-seat platform pricing (Response/Assist tiers)](https://www.agentlist.io/systems/incident-io) [Rootly Rootly · ops-agent chat/api · cloud · Per-seat plans; enterprise tiers — verify](https://www.agentlist.io/systems/rootly) [Bits AI Datadog · ops-agent chat/api · cloud · Included in Datadog plans; usage-based add-ons — verify](https://www.agentlist.io/systems/bits-ai) Extended matrix — 4 more 80/20 preview TABLE ## Transport table | Agent | Vendor | Category | | --- | --- | --- | | CursorCursor is a VS Code–based AI-native editor with repo-aware chat, multi-file edits, Composer/agent modes, and cloud background agents. | Anysphere | ai-ide | | DevinDevin is Cognition's autonomous software engineer: cloud sandboxes for ticket-in / PR-out work, plus Devin Desktop and CLI on the same plan as Windsurf. | Cognition | cloud-agent | | OpenHandsOpenHands (formerly OpenDevin) is an open-source software engineering agent you can self-host, using LiteLLM or OpenRouter for models. | Community / OSS | cli-agent | | Factory DroidsFactory Droids are enterprise agent fleets for code, review, docs, tests, and knowledge, run via CLI, desktop, or cloud Missions. | Factory AI | cloud-agent | | RoomoteRoomote is the Roo Code team's single-tenant cloud coding agent: your own hosted or self-hosted instance that runs tasks against your repos. | Roo Code Inc. | cloud-agent | | OpenClawOpenClaw is the category-defining self-hosted assistant: one Gateway on your own hardware connects ~29 chat channels (WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, iMessage, Slack, Discord…) to an agent with memory, skills, sessions, and multi-agent routing — stewarded by an independent 501(c)(3). | OpenClaw Foundation | personal-agent | | Hermes AgentHermes Agent is Nous Research's self-improving assistant — a closed learning loop creates skills from experience and refines them in use, with agent-curated memory, periodic nudges, FTS5 session search, and Honcho user modeling. Runs from a $5 VPS to serverless backends. | Nous Research | personal-agent | | SierraSierra is the customer-service AI employee for large consumer brands: it resolves support conversations across chat and voice, takes actions in business systems, and bills on outcomes. | Sierra | digital-employee | | DecagonDecagon builds autonomous customer-support agents that resolve chats, emails, and calls for mid-market and enterprise brands, with engineering-grade tooling for the ops team behind them. | Decagon | digital-employee | | FinFin is Intercom's AI support agent: it answers customer questions from your help content, resolves conversations end-to-end, and charges only when it resolves. | Intercom | digital-employee | | LindyLindy is the build-your-own-employee platform: no-code agents that handle email triage, scheduling, meeting notes, CRM updates, and custom back-office workflows. | Lindy | digital-employee | | ClericCleric is a dedicated AI SRE: it investigates production alerts across logs, metrics, deploys, and code history, then hands on-call engineers a root-cause hypothesis with evidence. | Cleric | ops-agent | | ResolveResolve (resolve.ai) is an AI SRE from ex-Splunk/Observability leadership: it triages alerts, investigates incidents across your stack, and drafts remediations for approval. | Resolve | ops-agent | | incident.ioincident.io is the incident-management platform whose AI assistant drafts timelines, summarizes channels, surfaces similar past incidents, and nudges responders — inside the tool that already runs your incidents. | incident.io | ops-agent | | RootlyRootly is the incident-response platform with AI woven through it: auto-drafted summaries, suggested next steps, retrospectives, and noise reduction on the alert stream. | Rootly | ops-agent | | Bits AIBits AI is Datadog's in-platform agent: it answers observability questions in natural language, investigates anomalies, and drafts incident summaries against the telemetry you already pay Datadog for. | Datadog | ops-agent | KIND ## More messaging channels - [Discord](https://www.agentlist.io/transports/discord) - [Email (SMTP/IMAP)](https://www.agentlist.io/transports/email) - [iMessage](https://www.agentlist.io/transports/imessage) - [Signal](https://www.agentlist.io/transports/signal) - [Telegram](https://www.agentlist.io/transports/telegram) - [WhatsApp](https://www.agentlist.io/transports/whatsapp) --- Source: [Slack — agent transport | agentlist.io](https://www.agentlist.io/transports/slack). 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