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# Ask Studio in Slack

The company's Slack app and the Ask Studio app are different. Ask Studio in Slack answers as you and does not apply changes. Test in Slack appears only where that app is offered.

Open **Connections**, then **Slack**, for your company's own Slack app. That page says people tag it in Slack to reach their agents. That app is not Ask Studio. Set it up in [Set up Slack](https://falcon.com/docs/set-up-slack).

## Your Slack account

**Your settings**, then **Slack**, is titled **Slack** and says **How Slack reaches your agents.** Under **Your Slack account**: **Connected. When you tag the app, it knows it's you.** If it is not connected yet, the line is **Not connected yet. Tag the app in Slack and open the link it sends you.** After the link works, the page says **Your Slack account is connected.**

## The Ask Studio app

The app named **Ask Studio** is separate. Where it is connected, a message to it is answered in that thread as you, and only with what you are allowed to do. It does not show **Apply**. To change something, open the Ask Studio panel and apply it there.

## Test in Slack

- Where an agent shows **Slack testing**, **Test in Slack** opens the Ask Studio app. The note says **Opens the Ask Studio app in Slack. Type** `/test`, the agent's name, **and your message.** That talks to the agent's draft in a test. It does not change the Live agent.
- If you do not see **Test in Slack**, this server is not offering the Ask Studio app. Ask in the panel, and use the agent's **Test** page. That page says nothing there reaches anybody real.
- When the button is shown but off, **Add the Ask Studio app to your Slack workspace to test this agent there** means the app is not connected. Nothing opens in Slack.
- **Choose an agent before testing it in Slack** means the agent has no name yet.
- **Testing a workflow in Slack isn't available yet.**

## What a Slack reply can say

- If your Slack account is not connected, the private reply tells you to connect it in Studio first. Nothing was run. Open the link it sends.
- If your account needs recovery first, the reply says to finish recovery in Studio before Ask Studio can answer in Slack.
- If a limit stops it, the reply says Ask Studio is not answering because usage controls stopped it, and to check usage limits. See [Ask Studio limits](https://falcon.com/docs/ask-studio-limits).
- If the safety check held the message, it was not answered. Ask in the panel instead. If the safety check is unavailable, try again later or ask in the panel.
- If the thread's context is unavailable, start a new question or a `/test` command, or open Studio.

## Related

- [Open Ask Studio](https://falcon.com/docs/open-ask-studio)
- [What Ask Studio can do](https://falcon.com/docs/what-ask-studio-does)
- [Ask Studio limits](https://falcon.com/docs/ask-studio-limits)
- [Ask Studio settings](https://falcon.com/docs/ask-studio-settings)
- [Ask Studio](https://falcon.com/docs/ask-studio)
- [Set up Slack](https://falcon.com/docs/set-up-slack)
- [What a Slack message does](https://falcon.com/docs/slack-messages)