Remote Actions 🛠️
Remote Actions Basics
Alice extends its functionality through Remote Actions that create automation bridges with other platforms via webhook technology. By linking Alice to applications like Slack, users can define customized skills that send data to external systems through webhook URLs and receive structured JSON responses. This seamless integration allows users to perform tasks in other applications directly from the Alice chat interface, with confirmation messages returning to verify successful execution.
Creating remote actions in Alice lets you run automations on other platforms.
Remote actions connect Alice to other applications through webhooks, allowing systems to exchange data.
Steps to create a Slack messaging remote action:
Define a skill in Alice - a pre-built prompt for a specific task
Configure the skill to send data to a webhook URL (the receiving application's address)
Create a webhook response
When your remote action is set up, users can type messages in Alice that get sent to Slack. Alice can then confirm the message delivery back to the user.
Using Make and Zapier
Using Make or Zapier does not require anything else than passing the webhook address from this platform to Remote Action
Using other Automation Platforms
If you use other platforms, make sure you pass ?alice parameter at the end of a webhook address.
Pass response to Alice
To return message back to Alice, please use Webhook response module or similar, and react to status 200 with the correct message.
Advanced response passing as JSON
We always recommend to pass responses to Alice with the dedicated JSON module, before the actual webhook response module. This way you make sure, that even more complex structures get transmitted to Alice properly. There are times when you won't get the results you want, especially when there are some calculations performed directly in the JSON of the response webhook. This is why it's safer and better to create this response beforehand in the dedicated module:
And then, pass the result of this module to the Webhook response module:
Creating remote actions in Alice lets you run automations on other platforms.
Remote actions connect Alice to other applications through webhooks, allowing systems to exchange data.
Steps to create a Slack messaging remote action:
Define a skill in Alice - a pre-built prompt for a specific task
Configure the skill to send data to a webhook URL (the receiving application's address)
Create a webhook response
When your remote action is set up, users can type messages in Alice that get sent to Slack. Alice can then confirm the message delivery back to the user.
Using Make and Zapier
Using Make or Zapier does not require anything else than passing the webhook address from this platform to Remote Action
Using other Automation Platforms
If you use other platforms, make sure you pass ?alice parameter at the end of a webhook address.
Pass response to Alice
To return message back to Alice, please use Webhook response module or similar, and react to status 200 with the correct message.
Advanced response passing as JSON
We always recommend to pass responses to Alice with the dedicated JSON module, before the actual webhook response module. This way you make sure, that even more complex structures get transmitted to Alice properly. There are times when you won't get the results you want, especially when there are some calculations performed directly in the JSON of the response webhook. This is why it's safer and better to create this response beforehand in the dedicated module:
And then, pass the result of this module to the Webhook response module:
Remote Actions 🛠️
Remote Actions Basics
Alice extends its functionality through Remote Actions that create automation bridges with other platforms via webhook technology. By linking Alice to applications like Slack, users can define customized skills that send data to external systems through webhook URLs and receive structured JSON responses. This seamless integration allows users to perform tasks in other applications directly from the Alice chat interface, with confirmation messages returning to verify successful execution.
Creating remote actions in Alice lets you run automations on other platforms.
Remote actions connect Alice to other applications through webhooks, allowing systems to exchange data.
Steps to create a Slack messaging remote action:
Define a skill in Alice - a pre-built prompt for a specific task
Configure the skill to send data to a webhook URL (the receiving application's address)
Create a webhook response
When your remote action is set up, users can type messages in Alice that get sent to Slack. Alice can then confirm the message delivery back to the user.
Using Make and Zapier
Using Make or Zapier does not require anything else than passing the webhook address from this platform to Remote Action
Using other Automation Platforms
If you use other platforms, make sure you pass ?alice parameter at the end of a webhook address.
Pass response to Alice
To return message back to Alice, please use Webhook response module or similar, and react to status 200 with the correct message.
Advanced response passing as JSON
We always recommend to pass responses to Alice with the dedicated JSON module, before the actual webhook response module. This way you make sure, that even more complex structures get transmitted to Alice properly. There are times when you won't get the results you want, especially when there are some calculations performed directly in the JSON of the response webhook. This is why it's safer and better to create this response beforehand in the dedicated module:
And then, pass the result of this module to the Webhook response module: