Mention it in Slack and an agent reviews the PR, ships the fix, or answers the question — on the model you choose, with its tools running where you decide.
Already have a team deployment? Connect the local CLI and MCP client or use it in Slack.
To run your own: Node 24 and an Anthropic API key; no Slack.
npx @coreplane/switchboard init --organization <your GitHub org> --anthropic-key <your key>
npx @coreplane/switchboard ask "what can you do?"init writes .env (mode 600) and config/config.yaml into ~/.switchboard, so every command works from any directory; ask sends a request through the same dispatcher as Slack. curl -fsSL https://switchboard.space/install.sh | sh is the same init. To use a deployment your team already runs, run npx -y @coreplane/switchboard connect <host> instead.
Next: Get started.
Four seams: Channel, Provider, Executor, Agent. Each is an interface with more than one implementation. The dispatcher sits between them: it reads what you asked for and picks the agent, resolves the model through the config layers, checks authorization and runs the agent loop (How a request flows).
flowchart TB
C["Channel"] -->|"message"| D{"Dispatcher"}
D -->|"checks and selects"| AG["Agent"]
AG -->|"defines"| R["Run"]
R <-->|"model calls"| P["Provider"]
R <-->|"tool calls"| E["Executor"]
| You need | What it unlocks | |
|---|---|---|
| Required | A model provider key: Anthropic, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint | Every agent |
| For Slack | A Slack app (Socket Mode: bot token + app-level token) | The bot in your workspace |
| Optional | A GitHub App, or a repo-scoped token | Repository reads; pull requests |
| Optional | A Cloudflare account | Production: the bot plus the state, resident and sandbox Workers |
| Optional | An E2B account | Per-thread micro-VMs without Cloudflare |
| Optional | A Brave Search key (BRAVE_SEARCH_API_KEY) |
Web search for the research agent |
Off means the bot never offers it and the dashboard and the plan never show it (Turn features on and off). The bot is npx @coreplane/switchboard start on any machine with Node, or the published image ghcr.io/coreplanelabs/switchboard.
Docs: https://switchboard.space (docs/) · CONTRIBUTING.md · AGENTS.md · SECURITY.md · Apache-2.0.
Going deeper: commands and directives exist for whoever wants to type them (Slack commands); a plain sentence needs none.