Using @KitBot in Slack
How to mention Kit's @KitBot assistant in Slack — which channel answers what, and how it routes hiring vs. security questions.
Why It Matters
Kit spans several products — hiring and your security (VDP) program — but in Slack there’s just one assistant: @KitBot. Mention it and it works out whether you’re asking about a candidate or a vulnerability report, so you don’t have to remember which bot lives where.
Mentioning the Bot
Mention @KitBot in a channel or in a thread and it replies in the thread where you mentioned it, keeping the channel clean.
One prerequisite: your Slack profile email must match your Kit account email, so KitBot knows who you are. If it can’t match you, it sends a private note explaining how to connect your accounts instead of sharing data. See Slack Permission Levels.
Which Channel Answers What
| Where you mention @KitBot | What answers |
|---|---|
| A candidate channel | The hiring assistant, scoped to that candidate |
| A thread under a security/VDP notification | The security assistant, scoped to that report |
| A general, hiring, or security channel | Whatever you ask — a hiring question gets a hiring answer, a security question gets a security answer |
| Any channel, if your account has one module | That module always answers |
In other words: in a dedicated channel or a report thread, KitBot already knows the context. In a shared channel, your question decides.
When It Asks You to Clarify
If you ask a top-level question in a mixed channel and it’s genuinely unclear whether you mean hiring or security, KitBot asks which one you mean rather than guessing. Just reply with the specifics and it picks up from there.
What Each Assistant Can Do
Hiring
- Summarize a candidate thread (saved as a note on the application)
- Look up candidate status, stage history, interviews, reviews, and applications
- In a candidate channel, take actions like advancing or rejecting (it confirms first)
Security (VDP)
- Report status, summary, timeline, and SLA state
- Duplicate checks, severity context, and how a bounty compares to your matrix
- Read-only — it links you into Kit for any action
See Asking KitBot About Reports.
Current Limitation
Outreach has no Slack assistant yet — @KitBot answers hiring and security questions only.
Tip: Route Notifications to the Right Channels
KitBot is most useful where your notifications already land. Routing each type of notification to the right channel also helps KitBot answer faster, since the channel itself signals the topic. Configure team and hiring channels under Integrations → Slack, and your VDP channel in Program Settings. See Slack Permission Levels.
Quick Checklist
- Your Slack profile email matches your Kit account email
- Mention @KitBot in a candidate channel to test a hiring answer
- Mention @KitBot in a thread under a report notification to test a security answer
- Ask a security question in a shared channel and confirm it routes correctly
- Remember: Outreach isn’t covered in Slack yet