AI & RAG
Slack Ask-the-Docs Bot Over Coda
Lets employees ask questions in Slack and replies in-thread with an answer grounded in the Coda corpus, including clickable citations to the exact source pages.
How it runs
The automated pipeline, trigger to output.
- TriggerSlack mention or slash command with a questionSlack
- ActionEmbed the question with Hugging FaceHugging Face
- ActionRetrieve top blocks from SupabaseSupabase
- LogicBuild grounded prompt or escalate on no match
- ActionGenerate grounded answer with OpenAIOpenAI
- OutputReply in Slack thread with Coda citationsSlack
What it does
Turns your Coda knowledge base into a Slack assistant. A teammate mentions the bot with a question; the workflow retrieves the most relevant indexed blocks, generates a grounded answer, and replies in the same thread with inline links back to the cited Coda pages.
When to use it
Deploy it when people keep asking the same policy, process, or product questions that are already documented in Coda. It meets them where they work instead of making them search docs.
How it works
- 1A Slack mention or slash command delivers the question.
- 2Hugging Face embeds the question text.
- 3Supabase returns the top matching blocks with their Coda coordinates.
- 4A logic step builds a grounded prompt and decides whether to answer or escalate when no good match is found.
- 5OpenAI drafts an answer using only the retrieved blocks.
- 6The bot posts the answer in-thread with citation links to Coda.
Set it up
What you configure once, before turning it on.
- 1Connect SlackChannels, DMs, threads, mentions.
- 2Connect Hugging FaceModels, datasets, spaces — the open-source hub.
- 3Connect SupabaseTables, auth, storage, edge functions.
- 4Connect OpenAIModels, embeddings, files.
- 5Connect CodaDocs, packs, automations.
- 6Set each agent's modelWe leave models unset so you pick the tier — fast + cheap, or top-quality.
- 7Tune it to your dataEdit the prompts, filters, and field mappings so it matches how your team works.
- 8Test, then turn it onRun once against a sample, confirm the output, then enable the trigger.
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