We built our coding agent for Slack instead of the terminal (www.mintlify.com)

Mintlify announced Mintlify Agent as a Slack-native coding agent that reads PRs or Slack threads, edits documentation, creates a pull request and shares a live preview — all from a @mintlify mention. The team built it for Slack deliberately: Slack stays open and feels low-friction compared with reopening an IDE or terminal, so documentation updates become as easy as a quick message. Mintlify says the app is already used internally (e.g., auto-generating changelogs) and is available to Pro+ customers under Products → Agent. Under the hood the agent is a looped LLM that calls a small, focused toolset (docs file ops: list/read/write/edit/delete; cross-repo ops: external_list/read, list_repositories, fetch_pull_request; site-structure read_navigation; web_fetch/web_search) plus workflow/comms tools (message_user, todowrite/todoread, review_ready). The team emphasizes minimal context (context engineering) and a simple trust loop — see → review → merge → repeat — with preview deployments so no local checkout is required. They also added an Agent API endpoint for automation (e.g., commit or release webhooks that trigger doc updates), enabling sequential “agentic” workflows. The result is a lower-cognitive-overhead path for routine doc maintenance and programmatic doc automations that integrate tightly with developer communication flows.