How to add Honeycomb traces to your AI Slack bot (opens in new tab)

Pipa is our agent for studio operations at Lunch Pail Labs. She lives in Slack, is powered by E2B sandboxes, and uses OpenCode for the harness. When it works, it’s awesome. You ask for help. Pipa goes off, runs the tools, does the work, and comes back with the answer. When it goes wrong, it’s a complete black box. In the terminal, I can see the mess: tool calls, permission prompts, stalls, and weird little “I can’t do that” moments. In Slack, most of that disappears behind a typing indicator ...