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AI-ready backtraces in Slack error notifications

When errors happen, your AI coding assistant can only help if it has the context it needs. To give you a hand, Honeybadger now includes full backtraces in Slack error notifications.

The backtrace appears as formatted code in Slack, making it easy to copy/paste or forward to your favorite AI debugging assistant like Cursor, Windsurf, or Copilot. Or, if you use Cursor's Background Agents, you can install their Slack integration to ask Cursor to fix the error without leaving Slack!

Screenshot of a Honeybadger error notification in Slack at 12:24 showing a NoMethodError for an undefined 'charge' method in the Monolith project's production environment. The error occurred on line 103 of the order.rb file in the charge_payment method. Below the error details is a chat interface where someone is asking '@Cursor fix this error' with an option to 'Also send to # alerts', demonstrating how developers can quickly escalate Honeybadger errors for AI-assisted debugging and team notification.

If you already have a Slack integration in Honeybadger, this feature is enabled automatically. Check out our Slack integration docs for more info, and our Working with LLMs guide for best practices and to super charge your AI-development workflow with Honeybadger's Model Context Protocol (MCP) server.

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