--- title: "Helen Mireille (@helen-mireille) | Hashnode" description: "Tech ops. AI agents and Slack automation. Read the latest articles by Helen Mireille on Hashnode." url: "https://hashnode.com/@helen-mireille" --- @helen-mireille # Helen Mireille @helen-mireille · London · Joined March 2026 Tech ops. AI agents and Slack automation. ### [Your OpenClaw Slack Agent Shouldn't Be Allowed to Do That Without Asking](https://helen-mireillehelenmireilletech.hashnode.dev/your-openclaw-slack-agent-shouldn-t-be-allowed-to-do-that-without-asking?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed) Last month our agent closed a Linear ticket, merged the PR, and deployed to staging. Nobody asked it to deploy. The engineer who triggered the workflow said "ship it" in a thread, meaning "the code lo 8 min read · [helen-mireillehelenmireilletech.hashnode.dev](https://helen-mireillehelenmireilletech.hashnode.dev/your-openclaw-slack-agent-shouldn-t-be-allowed-to-do-that-without-asking?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed) [Mar 9](https://hashnode.com/posts/your-openclaw-slack-agent-shouldn-t-be-allowed-to-do-that-without-asking/69af1b49af06a097c3c53bee) ### [We Built an On-Call Agent in Slack. It Caught an Outage Before PagerDuty Did.](https://helen-mireillehelenmireilletech.hashnode.dev/we-built-an-on-call-agent-in-slack-it-caught-an-outage-before-pagerduty-did?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed) We Built an On-Call Agent in Slack. It Caught an Outage Before PagerDuty Did. Three weeks ago our monitoring fired at 2:47am. The OpenClaw agent in our #incidents channel had already posted a summary: 7 min read · [helen-mireillehelenmireilletech.hashnode.dev](https://helen-mireillehelenmireilletech.hashnode.dev/we-built-an-on-call-agent-in-slack-it-caught-an-outage-before-pagerduty-did?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed) [Mar 9](https://hashnode.com/posts/we-built-an-on-call-agent-in-slack-it-caught-an-outage-before-pagerduty-did/69af0d3daf06a097c3bebc68) ### [Your OpenClaw Slack Agent's System Prompt Is Probably Wrong](https://helen-mireillehelenmireilletech.hashnode.dev/your-openclaw-slack-agent-s-system-prompt-is-probably-wrong?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed) Your OpenClaw Slack Agent's System Prompt Is Probably Wrong We rewrote our agent's system prompt four times in six weeks. Each rewrite cut our error rate, reduced costs, and improved response quality. 7 min read · [helen-mireillehelenmireilletech.hashnode.dev](https://helen-mireillehelenmireilletech.hashnode.dev/your-openclaw-slack-agent-s-system-prompt-is-probably-wrong?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed) [Mar 9](https://hashnode.com/posts/your-openclaw-slack-agent-s-system-prompt-is-probably-wrong/69aef114af06a097c3aff559) ### [OpenClaw 2026.3.8 Dropped Today. Here's What Matters for Your Slack Agent.](https://helen-mireillehelenmireilletech.hashnode.dev/openclaw-2026-3-8-dropped-today-here-s-what-matters-for-your-slack-agent?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed) OpenClaw 2026.3.8 Dropped Today. Here's What Matters for Your Slack Agent. OpenClaw shipped v2026.3.8 this morning. Twelve security patches, a new backup tool, ACP provenance for agent identity, and a 7 min read · [helen-mireillehelenmireilletech.hashnode.dev](https://helen-mireillehelenmireilletech.hashnode.dev/openclaw-2026-3-8-dropped-today-here-s-what-matters-for-your-slack-agent?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed) [Mar 9](https://hashnode.com/posts/openclaw-2026-3-8-dropped-today-here-s-what-matters-for-your-slack-agent/69aed50faf06a097c3a2caa0) ### [Slack Just Shipped Its Own MCP Server. Now What?](https://helen-mireillehelenmireilletech.hashnode.dev/slack-just-shipped-its-own-mcp-server-now-what?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed) Last month Slack made the Model Context Protocol server and Real-Time Search API generally available. If you're running an OpenClaw agent in Slack, this changes more than you think. I'll be honest: wh 7 min read · [helen-mireillehelenmireilletech.hashnode.dev](https://helen-mireillehelenmireilletech.hashnode.dev/slack-just-shipped-its-own-mcp-server-now-what?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed) [Mar 9](https://hashnode.com/posts/slack-just-shipped-its-own-mcp-server-now-what/69aebae609af683389c1c518)