Flock API

Name: Flock API API
Brand: Flock API
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✓ Official Vendor SpecCommunicationsChat MessagingapiKey11 EndpointsREST

For Agents

Send messages, fetch chat history, create channels, manage channel membership, and look up users on the Flock team-messaging platform.

Connect the Flock API to your agent

Jentic One is a self-hosted execution layer for AI agents. It lets your agent call the Flock API, or any other public or private API you need. You set the rules, the agent never sees your credentials, and every call is logged.

Install Jentic One Beta (Self-Hosted)

Jentic One Host machine

# On the machine that will host your Jentic One instance:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jentic/jentic-one/main/tools/install.sh | sh

Agent machine

# On the machine where your agent runs (keep this separate from the instance):
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jentic/jentic-one/main/tools/install.sh | sh
jentic register       # connects your agent to your Jentic One instance

Jentic One is in public beta. The setup above keeps your agent separate from the instance, which is what you want before using real credentials: an agent running as the same OS user as Jentic One can read its stored keys directly. Just evaluating? A single local install is fine to start. See the secure deployment guide for the tiers.

Capabilities

What an agent can do with Flock API API.

Send a chat message to a Flock channel or direct user

Fetch the recent message history of a channel for analysis or display

Create a new channel with a name and a list of initial members

Add or remove members from an existing channel

GET STARTED

Start building with Flock API API

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Use Cases

Patterns agents use Flock API API for, with concrete tasks.

★ Workflow notifications into team channels

Internal tools and automations call /chat.sendMessage to post structured updates into Flock channels - deployment notices, alert summaries, or daily digest messages. The same endpoint handles both channel and direct messages, so a single integration covers personal and team notifications.

Send a deployment-success message with the build ID to channel #engineering

Channel and membership management

HR and ops tools create per-project channels, seed them with the right members, and clean up when the project ends. /channels.create, /channels.addMembers, and /channels.removeMembers cover the full lifecycle, while /channels.listMembers backs audit dashboards that confirm who currently has access to each space.

Create channel #project-launch and add five named user IDs as members

Conversation history analysis

Analytics and search tools call /chat.fetchMessages to pull recent message history for a channel and feed it into summarisation, search, or compliance pipelines. Combined with /users.getInfo and /roster.listContacts, the API provides enough context to attribute each message to a named team member.

Fetch the last 100 messages from channel C123 and resolve each sender ID to a display name

AI agent team assistant

An AI assistant uses Flock through Jentic to answer natural-language requests such as 'summarise the engineering channel today' or 'invite Alice to the launch channel'. Jentic returns the right Flock method per intent so the agent does not need to learn the FlockOS POST-with-query-token convention before issuing calls.

Fetch today's messages from channel C123, summarise them, and post the summary back into the same channel

Key Endpoints

11 endpoints — the flock api exposes the team-messaging surface of the flock workplace chat platform.

METHOD

PATH

DESCRIPTION

POST

/chat.sendMessage

Send a message to a channel or user

POST

/chat.fetchMessages

Fetch recent messages from a channel

POST

/channels.list

List channels accessible to the token

POST

/channels.create

Create a new channel

POST

/channels.addMembers

Add members to a channel

POST

/channels.removeMembers

Remove members from a channel

POST

/users.getInfo

Look up a user's profile information

POST

/chat.sendMessage

Send a message to a channel or user

POST

/chat.fetchMessages

Fetch recent messages from a channel

POST

/channels.list

List channels accessible to the token

POST

/channels.create

Create a new channel

POST

/channels.addMembers

Add members to a channel

Why though Jentic?

Three things that make agents converge on Jentic-routed access.

Credential isolation

Flock API tokens are stored encrypted in the Jentic vault and appended to the request as the 'token' query parameter at execution time, so the raw token never enters the agent context.

Intent-based discovery

Agents search Jentic by intent such as 'send a message to a Flock channel' and Jentic returns the matching FlockOS method with its input schema, so the agent does not need to learn the POST-with-query-token convention before issuing calls.

Time to first call

Direct Flock integration: half a day to a day for FlockOS method calling, query-token handling, and pagination of message fetches. Through Jentic: under 1 hour to search, load the schema, and execute.

Related APIs

Alternatives and complements available in the Jentic catalogue.

Alternative

Slack Web API

Slack is the dominant team-messaging API with a much larger surface than Flock

Pick Slack when the team already uses it; pick Flock when the workspace is on Flock and the agent must work within FlockOS conventions

Alternative

Discord API

Discord is community-focused chat that overlaps with Flock for messaging primitives

Choose Discord for community spaces; choose Flock for internal team messaging on the Flock platform

Alternative

Mattermost API

Mattermost is a self-hosted alternative for team messaging

Pick Mattermost when the deployment is self-hosted; pick Flock when the workspace runs on Flock's cloud

FAQs

Specific to using Flock API API through Jentic.

What authentication does the Flock API use?

The Flock API uses an API token passed as a 'token' query parameter on each POST request. Through Jentic the token is held in the encrypted vault and appended at execution time, so the raw token never enters the agent context.

Can I send a message to a channel with the Flock API?

Yes. POST to /chat.sendMessage with the channel ID and message text. The same endpoint handles direct messages by passing a user ID instead of a channel ID.

How do I create a new Flock channel and add members?

Call POST /channels.create with the channel name to create the channel, then POST /channels.addMembers with the channel ID and an array of user IDs to seed it with the right members.

What are the rate limits for the Flock API?

Flock does not document a fixed global rate limit in the spec. Limits are applied per token. Treat 429 responses as the source of truth and back off using the Retry-After header.

How do I post a Flock message through Jentic?

Search Jentic for 'send a Flock message', load the schema for /chat.sendMessage, and execute the call with the channel ID and text. Install with pip install jentic and sign up at https://app.jentic.com/sign-up.

Can I fetch message history with this API?

Yes. POST to /chat.fetchMessages with a channel ID and pagination cursor to retrieve recent messages.