Empowia Project Pulse
An open-source skill that turns your own AI agent into a project tracker for Slack. It works with Claude and Codex.
Made to work with Empowia for Slack. The skill reads your Slack through Empowia's local backup and its MCP server, so it needs Empowia installed. Empowia for Slack is a free download: https://empowia.com/slack-backup/download
It reads your Slack, as backed up on your computer by Empowia for Slack, and helps you with four things:
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Find your projects. It spots the projects running in your channels and DMs, and proposes them to you.
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Set each one up with you. A short brainstorm agrees the workflow stages, owners, milestones and a Gantt chart. Workflows are saved so the next similar project can reuse them.
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Keep track. Each update reads only what is new and records:
- tasks, and who owes what to whom;
- decisions, and those still pending;
- blockers;
- stage moves.
Every item links back to the message it came from.
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Warn and suggest. Overdue work, quiet projects, unanswered blockers and slipping milestones show up as alerts. Each project gets a few concrete next steps.
You can ask your agent at any time ("How is the Acme project going?", "What do I owe this week?"), or open the HTML report it keeps up to date.
Slack ──► Empowia (backup on your computer) ──► MCP ──► your agent + this skill
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~/empowia-pulse/ ◄──────┘
├── report.html (open in a browser)
├── data/ (projects, commitments, settings)
└── workflows/ (your reusable workflows)
What you need
- Empowia for Slack (Windows or Mac), with your workspaces connected and backing up. The free edition backs up up to 20 conversations of your choice.
- An agent that supports skills and MCP:
- Claude Code, in the terminal, the Claude desktop app or your IDE. It needs a paid Claude plan (Pro, Max, Team or Enterprise);
- or Codex.
- Optional, for automatic updates: a scheduler in your agent app, such as scheduled tasks in the Claude desktop app or automations in Codex.
Install
First install Empowia for Slack and connect your workspaces. Then:
Claude Code: install as a plugin
claude plugin marketplace add Jinqiuxia/empowia-project-pulse
claude plugin install empowia-project-pulse@empowia
Then connect Empowia's MCP server (step 2 below) and restart Claude Code.
Any agent: ask it to install
In Claude Code or Codex, say:
Install the empowia-project-pulse skill from https://github.com/Jinqiuxia/empowia-project-pulse and connect the Empowia MCP server. Here is the command from Empowia → Settings → MCP server: …
Then restart the agent app.
By hand
1. Copy the skill folder (skills/empowia-project-pulse/, the one containing SKILL.md) into your agent's skills folder.
| Agent | Skills folder |
|---|
| Claude Code | ~/.claude/skills/ |
| Codex | ~/.agents/skills/ |
git clone https://github.com/Jinqiuxia/empowia-project-pulse.git
cp -r empowia-project-pulse/skills/empowia-project-pulse ~/.claude/skills/ # Claude
cp -r empowia-project-pulse/skills/empowia-project-pulse ~/.agents/skills/ # Codex
On Windows (PowerShell):
Copy-Item -Recurse empowia-project-pulse\skills\empowia-project-pulse $HOME\.claude\skills\ # Claude
Copy-Item -Recurse empowia-project-pulse\skills\empowia-project-pulse $HOME\.agents\skills\ # Codex
No git? Download the ZIP from the latest release and copy the same folder.
2. Connect Empowia's MCP server. Empowia → Settings → MCP server shows the exact command for your computer:
| Edition | Command |
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| Windows, Microsoft Store | %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\WindowsApps\empowia.exe --mcp |
| Windows, portable | the full path to Empowia-for-Slack.exe, then --mcp |
| Mac | the path shown in Settings, then --mcp |
Claude Code:
claude mcp add --scope user empowia -- "<path to Empowia>" --mcp
Codex, either by command:
codex mcp add empowia -- "<path to Empowia>" --mcp
or in ~/.codex/config.toml:
[mcp_servers.empowia]
command = "C:\\Users\\<you>\\AppData\\Local\\Microsoft\\WindowsApps\\empowia.exe"
args = ["--mcp"]
Restart the agent app afterwards.
3. Keep Empowia backing up.
- In Empowia → Settings, set the backup to every 15 minutes to 1 hour.
- On Windows, leave Empowia running in the tray; "Start with Windows" helps.
- On Mac, keep Empowia open.
First run
Tell your agent:
Set up Empowia Project Pulse.
It asks four short questions: your Slack name, your role, your language and time zone. It then reads the last week of messages and proposes the projects it found. Pick the ones to track, and the brainstorm for each takes a few minutes.
Day to day
| You say | It does |
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| "Find my projects" | proposes projects it sees in your Slack |
| "Set up the Acme project" | brainstorms the workflow, milestones and Gantt chart with you |
| "Update" | reads what's new and refreshes everything |
| "How is Acme going?" | answers from the project, with sources |
| "What do I owe this week?" / "Who owes me something?" | lists your commitments, and others' to you |
| "What's at risk?" | lists alerts and slipping milestones |
| "Move the launch to 2 December" | changes the plan and the Gantt chart |
| "Close Acme" | holds a short retrospective, and offers to improve the workflow for next time |
Automatic updates
Create a scheduled task in your agent app (Claude desktop app: scheduled tasks; Codex: automations).
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