chore: Switch from vendored bolt-python to published slack-bolt from PyPI

Author: mwbrooks

.github/dependabot.yml

@@ -11,9 +11,6 @@ updates:
     labels:
       - "pip"
       - "dependencies"
-    ignore:
-      - dependency-name: "slack-bolt"
-        # Vendored from bolt-python main — managed via /project:vendor-bolt
   - package-ecosystem: "github-actions"
     directory: "/"
     schedule:

README.md

@@ -34,10 +34,4 @@ Casey also works with the [Slack MCP Server](https://docs.slack.dev/agents-ai/mo
 
 ## Local Development
 
-This repo uses a vendored (pre-release) build of `slack-bolt` from the [bolt-python](https://github.com/slackapi/bolt-python) `main` branch. The `.whl` file lives in `vendor/` and is referenced by each app's `requirements.txt`.
-
-To update the vendored bolt-python to the latest `main`, run the Claude Code slash command:
-
-```
-/project:vendor-bolt
-```
+This repo uses [`slack-bolt`](https://pypi.org/project/slack-bolt/) from PyPI.

claude-agent-sdk/pyproject.toml

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ version = "0.1.0"
 requires-python = ">=3.12"
 dependencies = [
     "slack-sdk==3.41.0",
-    # slack-bolt is installed from a vendored whl — see ../vendor/
+    "slack-bolt>=1.28.0",
     "slack-cli-hooks<1.0.0",
     "claude-agent-sdk>=0.1.36",
     "aiohttp>=3.13.3",

claude-agent-sdk/requirements.txt

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 slack-sdk==3.41.0
-../vendor/slack_bolt-1.27.0+8908885-py2.py3-none-any.whl
+slack-bolt>=1.28.0
 slack-cli-hooks<1.0.0
 claude-agent-sdk>=0.1.36
 aiohttp>=3.13.3

openai-agents-sdk/pyproject.toml

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ version = "0.1.0"
 requires-python = ">=3.10"
 dependencies = [
     "slack-sdk==3.41.0",
-    # slack-bolt is installed from a vendored whl — see ../vendor/
+    "slack-bolt>=1.28.0",
     "slack-cli-hooks<1.0.0",
     "openai-agents",
     "python-dotenv==1.2.2",

openai-agents-sdk/requirements.txt

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 slack-sdk==3.41.0
-../vendor/slack_bolt-1.27.0+8908885-py2.py3-none-any.whl
+slack-bolt>=1.28.0
 slack-cli-hooks<1.0.0
 openai-agents
 python-dotenv==1.2.2

pydantic-ai/pyproject.toml

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ version = "0.1.0"
 requires-python = ">=3.10"
 dependencies = [
     "slack-sdk==3.41.0",
-    # slack-bolt is installed from a vendored whl — see ../vendor/
+    "slack-bolt>=1.28.0",
     "slack-cli-hooks<1.0.0",
     "pydantic-ai[openai]",
     "python-dotenv==1.2.2",

pydantic-ai/requirements.txt

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 slack-sdk==3.41.0
-../vendor/slack_bolt-1.27.0+8908885-py2.py3-none-any.whl
+slack-bolt>=1.28.0
 slack-cli-hooks<1.0.0
 pydantic-ai[openai,anthropic]
 python-dotenv==1.2.2