Calendar AI Bot: Manage Google Calendar from Slack

The workflow

Calendar AI Bot connects a Slack conversation to Google Calendar. Users can create an event, ask about existing events, or check availability in ordinary language.

How it works

• A Python Slack service receives messages and manages the Google OAuth connection.
• GPT-4o interprets requests and calls the appropriate calendar tools.
• Google Calendar remains the system of record for reads and writes.
• An RQ job queue handles work that cannot finish within Slack's acknowledgement window.

Engineering focus

Slack expects applications to acknowledge an incoming event quickly, while calendar and model operations can take longer. Moving that work into a background queue keeps the bot responsive and prevents duplicate processing.

Result

The assistant brings common calendar actions into the place where teams are already coordinating. The same pattern can be extended to other tools while preserving explicit permissions and a clear system of record.