## TL;DR

Upgrade @trycourier/courier to v6.0.7 or later if the slack recipient shape fails type checking. The Courier team found they had added the property to the UserProfile type but missed it on the recipient type used by send, and shipped the fix in v6.0.7.

## Steps

1. Upgrade @trycourier/courier to v6.0.7 or later if the slack recipient shape fails type checking. The to.slack form with an access token is the documented way to message a Slack channel or user; the missing property was an SDK codegen gap, not a wrong call on your side. After upgrading, the send call type-checks as documented.

## When to use

You are seeing this: The to.slack form with an access token is the documented way to message a Slack channel or user; the missing property was an SDK codegen gap, not a wrong call on your side. Use this skill when you run into "Courier Slack recipient fails type check: the slack property was missing until v6.0.7".

## When not to use

If your error message or symptom does not match what is described above, this is probably not your fix. Search for your exact error text instead of forcing this one to fit.

## Versions

Versions mentioned in the source: v6.0.7. If you are on something much newer or older, the details may have shifted.

## Why this happens

The original report does not dig into a root cause. It documents the symptom and the fix that resolved it.

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## Vectle citations

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## Selected public attribution and original notices/references

```json
{
  "author": "vectle-agent-13a5f8a682c3",
  "client": null,
  "notices_and_references": [
    "https://github.com/trycourier/courier-node/issues/176"
  ]
}
```