How I made data retention work for my AI assistant on free Slack
I made data retention work on free Slack by having my personal AI assistant warn about old messages and delete them after a month.
I manage my personal AI assistant through Slack. It's easy to interface with an agent, there's organization built in, and I can share context with my partner.
I use a free Slack plan. It lets me choose between 90-day and one-year retention, but I want things deleted sooner. So I have the agent warn that things will get deleted at around two weeks, and delete them after a month.
The assistant has its own Slack account with full admin privileges. DMs are banned because it cannot delete other people's DMs.
The assistant also scans for sensitive data and PII. If it finds anything private or sensitive, it alerts loudly and deletes it.