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Cognition Brings Autonomous Coding Agent Devin Into Slack Channels

July 15, 2026 at 16:06 EDT

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Cognition AI has made its autonomous software engineer Devin available natively inside Slack, letting teams investigate issues, ask questions about a codebase, and kick off development tasks without leaving the messaging app. The integration turns a familiar channel or thread into a launch point for engineering work: mention Devin, describe the problem, and the agent responds directly in the conversation.

Cognition AI · Product Update

Devin Moves Into Slack

The autonomous software engineer now lives inside Slack — @-mention it in a thread to investigate issues, ask about a codebase, and kick off tasks that end in a pull request, all without leaving the conversation.

$500/mo

Team pricing at launch — unlimited seats included

~48hrs

To build a working app from Slack messages alone

Ways to run Devin: web, VS Code, and Slack

From chat to shipped fix

A request moves through one continuous loop — in the channel

@-mention

Describe the bug in a Slack thread

→

Plan & execute

Agent works the task autonomously

→

Pull request

Reports back in the same thread

What the Slack update adds

Built to hold context across a conversation

• Two-way thread synchronization

• Full Markdown rendering

• Prior thread messages used as context

• Automatic unarchiving of sessions

• Renamed !normal command

• GitHub & Linear integrations

What works

Efficient flow from conversation to pull request; end-to-end autonomy versus inline-only assistants; improved tooling such as Playwright support over the past year.

Open questions

Earlier versions lost context across sessions — recent updates aim to fix this. Detailed independent critical reviews remain limited, and reliability on messy real work is still to be proven.

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