feat: recommend the official Slack plugin to Claude Code users

[zimeg]

Changelog

The CLI now recommends the official Slack plugin to Claude Code users. No change for anyone running the CLI outside Claude Code.

Summary

When the CLI runs inside Claude Code (detected via CLAUDECODE=1), it emits a one-line <claude-code-hint /> marker to stderr recommending the official slack@claude-plugins-official plugin. Claude Code strips the marker before the output reaches the model (so it never counts toward token usage), dedupes it per plugin and per session, and shows the user a one-time install prompt. Claude Code never installs anything automatically — the user always confirms.

Protocol reference: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/plugin-hints

Design decisions worth calling out:

• Placement. The emitter lives beside the existing CLAUDECODE detection (GetAIAgent) in internal/useragent, since that package already owns "behavior conditioned on which AI agent is running us." A dedicated internal/plugins (or internal/agents) package felt premature for a ~10-line, single-vendor feature — Codex/Gemini/etc. have no equivalent protocol today. If a second agent-conditioned behavior or a second vendor protocol lands, that's the trigger to extract.
• Two call sites. root.go's PersistentPreRunE covers every normal subcommand. Cobra serves --help before PersistentPreRunE runs, so the custom help func (cmd/help/help.go) needs its own emit to cover slack --help and slack <cmd> --help (two of the touchpoints the docs recommend).
• stderr, on its own line. The marker is written to stderr via IO.WriteErr() so it stays out of stdout pipelines and out of the help text, and the protocol's one hard requirement (own line) is satisfied by Fprintln.

Preview

Emitted on stderr only when CLAUDECODE=1:

$ CLAUDECODE=1 slack version 2>&1 1>/dev/null
<claude-code-hint v="1" type="plugin" value="slack@claude-plugins-official" />

Nothing is emitted otherwise.

Testing

Unit tests:

• internal/useragent/hint_test.go — emits on its own line when CLAUDECODE=1; no-op when unset or set to another value.
• cmd/help/help_test.go — help func emits the hint on stderr (not stdout) inside Claude Code; nothing outside.

Manual end-to-end against a built binary:

• CLAUDECODE=1 slack version → 1 hint on stderr, 0 on stdout ✅
• slack version (no CLAUDECODE) → 0 bytes on stderr ✅
• CLAUDECODE=1 slack --help and slack auth --help → 1 hint on stderr each, help text unaffected on stdout ✅
• slack --help without CLAUDECODE → 0 ✅

go build ./..., go test ./cmd/... ./internal/useragent/..., and golangci-lint on the touched packages all pass.

Notes

• Depends on an official-marketplace listing. The hint only renders for plugins in Anthropic's curated claude-plugins-official marketplace; hints pointing elsewhere are silently dropped. Until a slack plugin is listed there, this marker is emitted but not shown. This needs to be coordinated with an Anthropic contact — flagging so it isn't a surprise.
• Emitting on every invocation is intentional and has no downside: Claude Code dedupes by plugin and shows at most one hint prompt per session.

Requirements

• I've read and understood the Contributing Guidelines and have done my best effort to follow them.
• I've read and agree to the Code of Conduct.

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Codecov Report

❌ Patch coverage is 83.33333% with 1 line in your changes missing coverage. Please review.
✅ Project coverage is 71.73%. Comparing base (a265b95) to head (7c560ad).
⚠️ Report is 4 commits behind head on main.

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[zimeg]

📝 A note for reviewers before I fall into too much a rabbit hole.

[zimeg]

⚠️ note: I can't seem to have claude prompt but this matches spec!

[WilliamBergamin]

Did you double check that the plugin was not already installed on your system?