Aurora — Spec: Slack Notifications

Aurora's Slack notification feature delivers personal alerts to team members when an action item is assigned to them, as extracted from a meeting recording. This is one of the three core MVP features defined in the project kickoff brief. [Aurora — Kickoff Brief.md]

See the Project Overview for the full project context, and Audio-to-Events Pipeline for how action items are first extracted before notifications are triggered.

The following are explicitly excluded from the MVP: [Aurora — Kickoff Brief.md]

• Mobile push notifications
• Recurring-event reminders via Slack
• External calendar sync notifications (e.g., Google Calendar, Outlook)
• Notifications for all events (only action item assignments trigger notifications) [Planning Meeting 2026-06-09.md]

• Notifications are triggered per action item assigned to a user, not for every event recorded. [Planning Meeting 2026-06-09.md]
• The notification is targeted at the individual user assigned to that specific action item.
• The notification channel is Slack; no other notification channels are in scope for MVP.
• The trigger point is the completion of the Audio-to-Events Pipeline for a given recording.

⚠️ The source document does not specify edge case handling. The items below are structural placeholders derived from the defined scope — all marked low confidence.

• Unrecognized assignee: If the extracted action item cannot be matched to a known Slack user, behavior is unspecified. [Aurora — Kickoff Brief.md]
• Duplicate notifications: If the same recording is re-processed, deduplication logic is not defined in the brief. [Aurora — Kickoff Brief.md]
• No Slack account: Handling for team members without a linked Slack account is not addressed in scope. [Aurora — Kickoff Brief.md]

Slack notifications are part of the Calendar + Slack beta, targeted for 2026-08-15, ahead of the pilot launch on 2026-09-15. [Aurora — Kickoff Brief.md]

Feature delivery owned by Dev Patel (backend) under PM Mina Park, as part of the broader Aurora team. [Aurora — Kickoff Brief.md]