What does this Confluence automation do?
A mention in Slack runs a Confluence search, and a named agent replies with the answer and the page.
What can you do with it?
- Answer from the docs in the channel
- Link the source page
- Cut repeat questions for experts
The Steps
This automation runs in 4 steps:
- When Slack: New Mention
- Then Confluence: Search with CQL
- Then Taskade AI: Ask an agent ("Docs Answerer")
- Then Slack: Send Channel Message
What makes this different from a Zapier-style flow?
The "Docs Answerer" step is not a one-off model call. It is a Taskade AI agent that knows your Confluence spaces and their owners, remembers the questions people asked before, so every run builds on the last one instead of starting from an empty prompt.
A stateless "ask the model" step forgets everything the moment it returns. An agent keeps its knowledge and its memory between runs, carries its own tools, and can be handed work by your other automations.
Who is this automation for?
Built for teams that answer the same questions every week. A mention in Slack runs a Confluence search, and a named agent replies with the answer and the page.
How do you set it up?
- Open the "Automations" tab in your workspace.
- Click ➕ Add automation, then start from scratch.
- Add the trigger "New Mention" from Slack.
- Add the action "Search with CQL" from Confluence.
- Add the action "Ask an agent" from Taskade AI. Point it at an agent called "Docs Answerer".
- Add the action "Send Channel Message" from Slack.
- Connect your Confluence account when prompted, then enable the toggle in the top-right corner.
Prefer to describe it instead? Click Build this flow with AI above and Taskade wires the trigger, the steps, and the agent for you.