RocketChat

· #110 most-used

The open-source team chat your agent lives inside

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RocketChat is the world's most-deployed open-source communication platform — trusted by banks, governments, and 12 million users who need full data control over their conversations. Once connected, your agent can post alerts to channels, spin up incident war rooms, provision users, fetch message histories, and respond to live chat sessions across the entire workspace. Keep every team informed, every handoff documented, and every customer conversation captured — without switching tabs.

Average time saved
10 hours
per person · per month
1 workdays back

Eliminates manual work. Eliminates manual channel posting, user provisioning, and message-routing tasks that agents handle automatically for every workflow event.

Schedule

What your RocketChat agent runs on autopilot

A week of scheduled jobs your Actionist agent will execute on your behalf.

28Scheduled jobs
7Agents at work
24/7Always on
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Agents
Multi-app workflows

RocketChat × every other app you use

End-to-end automations that span multiple apps — each one a real business outcome.

6Workflows
9Apps spanned
~46 hrsSaved / week
6Personas served
customer-success★ FeaturedSaves 45m saved · runs ~40× /week

Omnichannel chat to resolved ticket in 60 seconds

When a visitor opens an omnichannel live chat session, your agent looks them up in the CRM, reads their account tier, and routes high-value customers directly to a senior agent with a pre-populated context card — name, last purchase, open issues. If it's off-hours, the agent posts an acknowledgement, creates a support ticket in the helpdesk, and syncs the conversation to the customer's timeline. Median response time drops by 73%.

Trigger: When a new omnichannel live chat session starts in RocketChat
Step 1 trigger
Gmail
Detect inbound customer email as session trigger
Step 2 read
Rocketchat
Read open omnichannel session and visitor info
Step 3 write
Rocketchat
Post personalised reply with ticket reference number
Step 4 write
Slack
Notify assigned CSM with session summary
Step 5 write
Google Calendar
Schedule follow-up call if issue unresolved
Zero dropped customer conversations
Savings

What this looks like for your team

The comparison strip shows real manual tasks your agent replaces. The calculator translates that into your team's numbers.

Without Actionist
With RocketChat agent
  • Sales
    Manual deal-room setup
    Sales reps spend 18 minutes per closed deal creating the RocketChat channel, inviting the right people, and posting the contract brief.
    18 min/week
    Sales Agent
    Agent creates the room at deal close
    The agent creates the channel, adds all stakeholders, and posts the brief in under 60 seconds — reps are already on to the next deal.
  • Marketing
    Campaign broadcast copy-paste
    Marketing coordinators manually copy campaign briefs and paste them into 3–4 RocketChat channels every launch day.
    13 min/week
    Marketing Agent
    Agent broadcasts at campaign activation
    The agent posts formatted launch briefs to every relevant channel the moment the campaign goes live in HubSpot.
  • Customer Support
    Manual omnichannel ticket creation
    Support agents manually create tickets for every inbound RocketChat live chat, typing out the visitor's details and first message each time.
    18 min/week
    Customer Support Agent
    Agent converts chat to ticket instantly
    The agent reads the chat, creates the ticket, and notifies the CSM — all before the agent types their first reply.
  • Human Resources
    New-hire channel invitations
    HR coordinators spend 7 minutes per new hire manually inviting them to the correct RocketChat channels and sending welcome messages.
    7 min/week
    Human Resources Agent
    Agent handles provisioning on hire
    The agent adds new hires to all relevant channels and sends a personalised welcome DM the moment HR marks them active.
  • Finance
    Budget overage email chains
    Finance analysts email department heads about budget overages and then follow up to confirm the message was seen — 13 minutes per incident.
    13 min/week
    Finance Agent
    Agent posts alerts to the right channel
    The agent posts an itemised overage notice to the department's RocketChat channel with the budget owner tagged — no email, no chase.
  • Operations
    Weekly digest assembly and posting
    Operations managers spend 25 minutes each Monday pulling data, formatting the update, and posting it to multiple RocketChat channels.
    25 min/week
    Operations Agent
    Agent assembles and posts the digest
    The agent pulls live data, formats the structured digest, and broadcasts it to every stakeholder channel before the team arrives.
  • Legal
    Manual compliance message archiving
    Legal coordinators export and file RocketChat messages from sensitive channels on a monthly basis — 6 minutes of manual export work per channel.
    6 min/week
    Legal Agent
    Agent archives on a fixed schedule
    The agent exports messages from compliance channels on the last business day of each month and appends them to the audit log automatically.

+ 100s of other automations your agent handles

Average monthly savings
10 hours / person
ROI calculator

See what your team gets back

Team size
10 people
Fully-loaded rate
$20 / hour
Hours / week
25
Hours / year
1,250
Annual ROI
$25,000

Baseline: 2.5 hrs saved per person per week, across the full RocketChat automation set.

Connect

How to plug RocketChat into Actionist

Pick the connection method that suits your environment.

The fastest path — install RocketChat's MCP server in the Apps tab and your agent reaches every channel, user, and message through a permissioned handshake. No tokens to rotate, no API keys to expire.

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Open the Apps tab

Find RocketChat in the Apps library and click Connect. MCP is selected by default.

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Authorise in RocketChat

In your RocketChat workspace, go to Administration → Apps → Marketplace, install the Actionist integration, and approve the requested permissions for channels, messages, and users.

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Test the connection

Actionist runs a read-only call to verify the handshake — it lists your channels and confirms message access. You're ready when the status shows Connected.

Read the RocketChat docs →
Actions

15 actions your agent can call

Read and write operations available to your Actionist agent.

Triggers

7 events your agent can react to

Events your agent watches for, and the actions it kicks off in response.

Skills

Skills that pair with RocketChat

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FAQs

Questions about RocketChat + Actionist

How does Actionist connect to my RocketChat workspace?
Connect via the MCP server in the Apps tab — it handles authentication through your RocketChat workspace's integration permissions. For self-hosted instances or environments where MCP isn't available, generate a Personal Access Token under Account → Personal Access Tokens and paste your User ID and Auth Key into the API token method.
What permissions does Actionist need in RocketChat?
For the MCP method, the integration requests read access to channels and messages, plus write access to post messages, create channels, and manage user memberships. For the API token method, your personal token inherits your own account permissions — if you're an admin, the agent has admin-level reach.
Can the agent post to private channels and direct messages?
Yes — the agent can post to any channel or DM it has been granted access to. For private channels, the connected account must be a member of that room. The agent cannot post to rooms it isn't a member of, which mirrors normal RocketChat permissions.
Can I use Actionist with a self-hosted RocketChat instance?
Yes. RocketChat is designed for self-hosting and Actionist supports it. For the API token method, point the credential at your instance's domain. For MCP, your instance needs to be reachable from the internet or via a secure tunnel. The agent's capabilities are identical regardless of hosting model.
What happens if a channel or user doesn't exist when the agent tries to post?
The agent will receive a 404-style error from the RocketChat API. Build your workflows to check channel existence with a 'Get channel info' step first, or handle the error by creating the channel before posting. The validate step in Actionist surfaces these mismatches before the workflow runs in production.
Can agents respond to incoming messages automatically?
Yes — use the 'New channel message' or 'New direct message' triggers to fire a workflow whenever a message arrives. The agent can read the message content, query other tools for context, and reply using the post-message action. This is how you build a help-desk bot or an alert responder entirely within RocketChat.
Are there rate limits I should know about?
RocketChat's API rate limits vary by endpoint and server configuration, but the default for self-hosted instances is 200 requests per minute per user. For cloud-hosted plans, check your workspace's admin panel. Actionist respects these limits automatically and queues retries with exponential backoff when a limit is hit.
How do I handle omnichannel live chat differently from regular channels?
Omnichannel live chat sessions appear as a separate resource in RocketChat's API. Use the 'New omnichannel live chat' trigger to fire workflows on visitor sessions, and use the post-message action with the omnichannel room ID to reply within the session. The visitor sees your reply as a standard chat response without knowing it was agent-generated.