A policy question
A new starter at Brightwave Ltd asks how much notice holiday needs. Memtro searches Slab, finds the Time off post in the People topic, quotes the two weeks' notice rule and says Priya Sharma owns the post.
Slab + Memtro
Ask what the Slab handbook says about a policy, and who owns the post.
Connect Slab with an API token and Memtro searches your posts and topics by full text, and reads a post with owner, topics and dates. The token belongs to a bot user, so Memtro sees only what that bot can see. It reads on demand and there is no hourly sync. When asked, and once an administrator has granted the action by name, it can create blank drafts, publish, archive or delete posts, file them under topics, and create, change or delete topics. Setting a post or topic public exposes it outside the company, and deleting is treated as permanent.
In Memtro
What you can do with Slab in Memtro
Ask in plain English from chat, your editor, a scheduled job or your own agent. The model picks the right Slab tool, reads what it needs, and answers with the source cited.
What it does
- 01Full-text search of posts and optionally topics, with the matching passage and when each post was updated
- 02A post's text with owner, topics, version and created, updated and published dates
- 03Posts by words in the title or topic, and topics with description, privacy, parent and child topics
- 04When asked and granted, creates a blank draft post, publishes or unpublishes it to the organisation, archives it, or deletes it for everyone
- 05When asked and granted, files a post under a topic or takes it out, and creates, renames, moves or deletes a topic
- 06When asked and granted, changes a post's link sharing or a topic's privacy, including public, which exposes it outside the company
Acts when asked
When you ask it to
These tools change something in Slab. The model is told to use them only when you ask for exactly that, and an administrator grants each one by name to the teams that may use it; a personal connection acts only after its owner allows it.
- 01Create a blank draft post with a title, optionally in a topic
- 02Publish a draft post to the organisation, or unpublish it
- 03Archive or unarchive a post
- 04Change who can open a post by link, including a public link
- 05File a post under a topic
- 06Take a post out of a topic
- 07Delete a post
- 08Create a topic, optionally under a parent, with a privacy level
- 09Rename, move or change the privacy of a topic
- 10Delete a topic
In practice
Ask it like you would a colleague
Once Slab is connected, these are the kinds of things people ask. Plain questions, no syntax. If the answer lives partly in another system you have connected, Memtro looks there too.
Slab + Memtro
What does our handbook say about working abroad?
Who owns the incident review post, and when was it updated?
Which posts are in the Engineering topic?
Is there a post about the expenses policy?
Publish the Acme onboarding plan draft and file it under Clients
Tidying the handbook
Priya Sharma asks Memtro to archive the old 2024 expenses post and publish the new draft she has written. Memtro archives the old post, which can be brought back, and publishes the draft, so everyone who can see the People topic now reads it.
Teams
Where it fits
The teams that lean on Slab most, a question each of them asks, and what they connect beside it.
- OperationsMonitors and digests that run themselvesOperations lead, Analyst, Team manager, Administrator“List my jobs”Used alongside Help Scout, Stripe, Xero, Postgres, ShipEngine and 8 more.
- ProductHear what customers actually ask forProduct manager, Researcher, Designer, Head of product“Which customers asked for SSO this quarter, and what is their combined ARR?”Used alongside Help Scout, HubSpot, Linear, Jira, Slack and 6 more.
- People and onboardingThe answers a new hire would otherwise ask around forNew starter, Manager, People lead, Hiring manager“How do I request a laptop, and who approves it?”Used alongside Confluence, Notion, Google Drive, Slack, Google Calendar and 5 more.
Better together
Works with
A record in Slab is rarely the whole story. Connect the systems that hold the rest and Memtro checks them together, then remembers what it learned so the next question starts further along.
- Work managementSlab with JiraJQL search, issue details and projects from Jira Cloud.
- Work managementSlab with Clio ManageAsk the matter: its client, its fee earner, the time on it and what is still unbilled.
- Work managementSlab with LinearIssues, projects and teams, synced hourly into memory.
- Email, calendar and chatSlab with GmailSearch and read mail so the last thread with a customer is one question away, and send the reply when you ask.
- Email, calendar and chatSlab with SlackSearch messages, read channel history and threads, post when you ask, and answer when mentioned.
- Email, calendar and chatSlab with Google CalendarMeetings in a window, event details, and the next two weeks synced into memory, and events it can create, change or cancel when you ask.
- Engineering and operationsSlab with GitHubIssues, pull requests, code and commits, searchable by anyone who can ask a question.
- Engineering and operationsSlab with AWS CloudWatchLogs, metrics and alarms from AWS, answered in plain English with the query that found them.
- Engineering and operationsSlab with SentryAsk what is breaking in production and get the stack trace, not a dashboard.
Also in Documents and wikis
Using something else for the same job, or both? Each connector has its own tools; connect as many as you like.
Setup
How to connect
Connect withAPI token
- 1
Slab's API may need a Business or Enterprise plan, and a Slab admin creates the token under Settings → Developer Tools (some workspaces show Settings → API)
- 2
The token belongs to a bot user that sees only what it can see, so add the bot to any private topics you want read or changed
- 3
Paste the API token into Connections → Slab in Memtro and connect
- 4
Ask what the handbook says about parental leave
Also works from
Chat in the dashboard, the OpenAI-compatible API, scheduled jobs, and any MCP client: Claude Code, OpenCode, Cursor, Claude Desktop. The Slab tools are the same everywhere.
FAQ
Questions
Can Memtro change anything in Slab?+
Only when you ask, and only what it has been granted: create a blank draft post with a title, optionally in a topic; publish a draft post to the organisation, or unpublish it; archive or unarchive a post; change who can open a post by link, including a public link; file a post under a topic; take a post out of a topic; delete a post; create a topic, optionally under a parent, with a privacy level; rename, move or change the privacy of a topic; delete a topic. Every other tool reads, searches or lists. The Connections page labels the tools that act, an administrator grants each one by name to the teams that may use it, and a personal connection acts only after its owner allows it.
Who can use a Slab connection?+
A personal connection serves only your own requests. A shared connection serves the organisation: everyone, or only the teams an admin chooses. Admins can always add shared connections; other members need the permission.
Does Memtro store my Slab data?+
Credentials are encrypted at rest. Tool results are cached briefly so agent loops do not repeat identical calls, and the facts the model extracts are saved to your organisation's memory with provenance (system, record and link) so they can be checked and superseded.
How do I connect Slab?+
API token. Slab's API may need a Business or Enterprise plan, and a Slab admin creates the token under Settings → Developer Tools (some workspaces show Settings → API).
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