Connect Lucid to Slackbot

By connecting Lucid with Slackbot, you can use natural language to locate and summarize your documents, generate diagrams, and share them with your team.

Plan availability: Free, Individual, Team, and Enterprise.

Not available on FedRAMP accounts.
Read the Lucid Plans article for more information about what is available on your account or the Upgrade your Lucid account article for instructions to upgrade.

For Slack admins: Authorize Slack to connect with Lucid

Slack workspace owners must first authorize the Lucid connection at the organizational level before users on their account can establish their own connections. To authorize Slack’s connection with Lucid, follow these steps in the following resource from Slack:

Manage access to Slack Workflow Builder connectors

After you’ve authorized Slack to connect with Lucid, users on your account can follow the steps in the Connect Slackbot to your Lucid account section below to complete the setup.

For Lucid admins: Enable the MCP server

Admins on Team or Enterprise Lucid accounts must first enable the Lucid MCP server before users on their account can use the Lucid connector for Slackbot. Enable the MCP server by following these steps:

From the Lucid Home Page, select Admin from the menu to the left.
Select Security from the left-hand navigation menu.
Select AI controls from the dropdown options.
Under “MCP access”, use the toggle next to "Allow users to connect”.
Click Enable MCP or Disable MCP in the modal that appears.
Click Save changes in the top-right corner.

Once the MCP server has been enabled in Lucid, users on your account can follow the steps in the Connect Slackbot to your Lucid account section below to complete the setup.

Connect Slackbot to your Lucid account

Open a DM with Slackbot.
Click the Connectors icon under the text entry box.
Select Manage Connectors.
Click Connect to the right of Lucidchart or Lucidspark.
Follow the prompts to authorize Slackbot to connect to your Lucid account.

Note: If you don’t see Lucidchart or Lucidspark as an option, the connection may need to be authorized by your Slack or Lucid admin. For more information, check out the For Slack admins and For Lucid admins sections above.

Features

The Lucid connector for Slackbot has the same features and capabilities as the Lucid MCP server.

For a complete list of Lucid MCP server use cases and example prompts, check out this post from the Lucid Community.

FAQ

What information can Slackbot access?
Lucid’s Slackbot Connector uses the Lucid MCP server to surface Lucid documents that you have permissions to access. It can access document titles, content, comments, and metadata to provide the LLM with the context it needs to fulfill your request.

Can I edit the diagrams that Slackbot creates?
Yes. When you ask Slackbot to create a diagram, it generates a preview along with the option to open the document in Lucid.

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