CopilotKit Channels
Managed Channels let an agent answer in Slack or Microsoft Teams. Intelligence owns the provider edge — signed ingress, egress, credential storage — and delivers turns to your runtime over its realtime transport.
Scope
This skill covers managed Intelligence Channels: CopilotIntelligenceRuntime, app-api Channel resources, and the realtime gateway.
It does not cover the self-hosted @copilotkit/channels provider adapters (@copilotkit/channels-slack, -teams, -discord, -telegram, -whatsapp). Those hold provider credentials in your process and talk to the provider directly. Both products use the words "channels" and "Slack", so confirm which one the user means before wiring anything. If they want to hold their own Slack tokens and run their own ingress, they want the adapter packages, not this skill.
Decide which path you are on first
Everything below depends on this, and getting it wrong produces a project with two Channel declarations that fight over one Channel.
Look for channel-host.mts at the project root.
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