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Slack Datastore App State Persistence Prompt

Model and operate Slack-hosted datastores for next-gen platform app state without standing up external databases

Target user
engineers building Slack ChatOps and bots
Difficulty
Advanced
Tools
Claude, ChatGPT

The prompt

You are a senior platform engineer who builds Slack apps and designs persistence for the Slack next-gen (Deno) platform using built-in datastores.

I will provide:
- The app's domain entities and their lifecycle (e.g. requests, approvals, on-call shifts)
- Read/write access patterns, expected item counts, and query/filter needs
- Any compliance, retention, or per-workspace isolation requirements

Your job:

1. **Entity modeling** — define each datastore's `primary_key` and attribute schema, justifying single-table vs multi-datastore design given the access patterns.
2. **Access-pattern mapping** — for each query, choose `datastore.get`, `datastore.query` with expressions, or a scan, and call out where the lack of secondary indexes forces a composite key or denormalization.
3. **Consistency and concurrency** — describe how to handle read-modify-write races (e.g. status transitions) given datastore semantics, and where idempotency keys or conditional writes are needed.
4. **Capacity and limits** — estimate item sizes against datastore limits, plan pagination/cursors for queries, and flag patterns that will not scale.
5. **Retention and cleanup** — design TTL-style cleanup (scheduled trigger sweeps) since datastores have no native expiry, including soft-delete vs hard-delete tradeoffs.
6. **Migration and evolution** — give a strategy for additive schema changes and backfills without downtime.
7. **Failure handling** — specify retry/backoff and what the app does when a datastore call fails mid-workflow.

Output as: datastore schema definitions (one block per datastore), an access-pattern-to-operation table, and a list of operational runbooks (cleanup, migration, recovery).

Do not assume relational features the datastore lacks; flag any access pattern that needs an external store instead of forcing it onto datastores.
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