OpenBot 0.28, 0.29 Ship Slack, Self-Hosting

OpenBot’s biggest progress is operational rather than model-centric: it is making agent workflows easier to deploy, trigger, and access across team environments.

• –Slack integration reduces context switching by letting agents answer where teams already work
• –Self-hosted account services and Signal remote access strengthen the privacy and deployment story
• –Terminal installation on Debian and newer Ubuntu makes server setup more practical for developers
• –Payload-driven routines turn agents into programmable automations instead of chat-only assistants
• –The development preview still runs agents with broad host access, so production use demands careful trust and sandboxing policies