Why

This Signal Deck decision was approved/investigated and should become durable repo-native work rather than remaining only in the Signal Deck database or action log.

Signal Deck card

• Card ID: ops-ops-channel-directory-failed-to-list-slack-channels-for-team-the-request-to-the-slack-api-
• Work item ID: ops-ops-channel-directory-failed-to-list-slack-channels-for-team-the-request-to-the-slack-api-:approve:2026-05-01T17:07:57.543Z:work
• Decision: approve at 2026-05-01T17:07:57.543Z
• Project: Hermes / Ops Reliability
• Target repo path used by processor: /home/emmett/.hermes/hermes-agent

User feedback / approval

No additional approval comment.

Context

Recurring error/warning appeared 83 times recently: Channel directory: failed to list Slack channels for team : The request to the Slack API failed. (url: https://slack.com/api/users.conversat

Scope

Approve a bounded investigation/fix only if this improves Hermes reliability or reduces future agent friction.

Acceptance criteria

• Inspect the target repo/source evidence directly before making changes.
• Produce a concrete local artifact, branch, or PR that addresses the approved scope.
• Link any implementation PR back to this issue and close it on merge.
• If the investigation shows the card is not actionable, document why and close as not planned.
• Preserve the Signal Deck card ID in commits/PR description for traceability.

Evidence

• No explicit evidence attached; card context is the evidence source.

Out of scope / risk gates

• Do not deploy, publish publicly, spend money, touch credentials, contact clients, or send Slack/Telegram/Discord messages from this issue alone.
• Risk gates: deploy, live/public posting, spend, Stripe/payment, credentials/tokens/secrets, Slack/API messaging, and client-facing changes require separate explicit approval before execution.
• Keep any code implementation on a branch and PR linked to this issue.