Plane’s Slack integration allows teams to create and manage work items without leaving Slack, while keeping Plane as the system of record.
A Plane workspace is required. Once connected, all Slack workspace members can create and interact with Plane work items.
When a Slack message needs to become work, use the Create a work item action from the message menu under Connect to apps.
The creation experience mirrors Plane itself. You select the work item type and fill in required fields such as ownership, priority, and workflow state before the work item is created. Plane enforces your project schema at creation, so work enters your system fully defined—not as a placeholder that needs cleanup later.
Once created, the work item can be shared back into Slack. The link expands into a rich preview showing full details, and quick edits can be made from the sidebar without leaving Slack.
For faster entry, invoke then @Plane command directly in Slack.
Plane AI allows you to create and manage work using plain language. Describe what needs to happen—create a bug, set priority, assign ownership—and Plane translates it into structured work that follows your project schema.
This is useful for incidents, support escalations, or mid-release discoveries where filling out forms would slow teams down, but correctness still matters.
Slack threads and Plane work items can be kept in sync bidirectionally.
When thread sync is enabled, comments and updates flow between Slack and Plane automatically. Changes made in Plane—such as status updates, comments, completion, or cancellation—surface back in the Slack thread where the conversation is happening.
This keeps collaborators informed even if they don’t actively work inside Plane.
You can link any existing Plane work item to an ongoing Slack thread. Once linked, updates from Plane appear automatically in that thread.
The same work item can be linked to multiple Slack threads across different channels. This allows support, engineering, product, and leadership teams to follow progress in their own context while Plane maintains a single source of truth.
Links to Plane entities shared in Slack expand into rich previews.
These previews show key properties such as title, status, priority, assignee, and due dates. Where available, inline actions allow members to make quick updates directly from Slack without opening Plane.
Entire Plane projects can be connected to Slack channels so updates flow automatically.
Choose which work item events should trigger notifications—such as creation, status changes, comments, completion, or cancellation—and route them to the channels where teams coordinate.
Engineering teams can surface sprint progress in #engineering. Support can track customer-reported issues in #customer-issues. Product teams can share roadmap movement in leadership channels without flooding them with noise.
Slack remains conversational, while updates reflect Plane’s actual state of work.
Plane gives teams granular control over Slack notifications.
Project-level updates can be routed to specific channels, while personal notifications can be enabled so important updates from your Plane inbox also appear in Slack.
Workspace admins can configure the Slack integration from Plane settings. Once enabled, all members can create work from Slack, link existing work, use message actions, and view expanded Plane links. You can also connect your personal Slack account.
More information about the Slack integration is available in the documentation.
