Built for the Slack Agent Builder Challenge

Every workplace runs on
unwritten rules.
Write yours down.

MyManual is a Slack agent that helps you create a self-authored user manual — a guide for how to work with you. Surfaced contextually, controlled entirely by you.

The problem

Workplace communication norms are invisible and assumed. Neurotypical employees navigate them by intuition; neurodivergent employees, ESL speakers, remote hires, and anyone new are forced to reverse-engineer them — often at real professional cost.

Misread terseness becomes "difficult to work with." A preference for written feedback becomes "can't take criticism live."

Personal user manuals are an established accommodation practice — but today they live in stale Google Docs nobody finds at the moment of interaction. The moment of interaction is Slack.

How it works

Three steps to a manual that actually gets seen.

1

Guided interview

DM the MyManual agent. It runs a warm, structured interview about your communication style, feedback preferences, focus hours, and the things people misread about you.

2

Your words, your manual

The agent drafts your manual from your answers. You edit everything before it exists. Optionally, it can look at your own public messages to suggest observations — only yours, only when you ask.

3

Surfaced when it matters

Teammates run /manual @you right before giving feedback or starting a conversation. Your preferences appear at the moment of interaction — not buried in a doc.

Key features

Built around consent, self-expression, and interoperability.

Consent-first

Private by default. Publish when you're ready. Unpublish anytime. Nothing is shared without your explicit action.

No profiling

No personality types, no inference, no labels. Every line is self-authored or confirmed by you. The anti-MBTI.

Disclosure-optional

State preferences without disclosing diagnoses. A sensitive-topic guardrail helps rephrase medical disclosures as preference statements.

For agents too

MyManual runs an MCP server. Other AI agents can query your preferences — scheduling bots respect your focus hours, standup bots know you prefer written updates.

Canvas output

Your manual lives as a Slack Canvas you own. Human-readable, always accessible, easy to share.

Self-draft from messages

Optionally pre-fill your manual by analyzing your own public Slack messages. Only yours. Only when you ask. Every suggestion requires confirmation.

A user manual humans and agents read

As AI agents proliferate in Slack, your manual becomes the interface contract for how agents treat you too.

MyManual exposes your published preferences via MCP (Model Context Protocol) — the open standard for AI tool discovery.

get_manual(user_id) — Full manual for a person
get_preference(user_id, domain) — Specific preference (feedback, focus, etc.)
list_published(team_id) — All published manuals in a workspace

Privacy by design

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Ready to write your manual?

It takes five minutes. You control every word.

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