Slack is where decisions get made, context gets buried, and institutional knowledge quietly evaporates. Slackslaw fixes that by archiving your entire workspace to a local SQLite database using slackdump under the hood — no admin rights, no third-party cloud, no data leaving your machine. One command to sync, one command to search.
The CLI tool is built for developers and power users who want to actually own their Slack history. Search with full-text queries, filter by channel or author, run arbitrary SQL against the archive, or pipe newline-delimited JSON straight into an LLM prompt. It handles incremental syncs via slackdump’s resume feature, so daily runs stay fast regardless of workspace size.
Slackslaw is part of the openclaw project — a small family of tools for archiving the communication platforms you live in. Its sibling discrawl does the same for Discord. The name is exactly what it sounds like: your Slack, shredded into something digestible.