Can an assistant thinking state be canceled?

[GxDesign]

@slack/bolt version:

4.2.0

Your App and Receiver Configuration

  const slackApp = new bolt.App({
    receiver: new bolt.ExpressReceiver({...}),
  });

  slackApp.assistant(new Assistant(...))

Node.js runtime version

v20.18.0

Question

When the assistant receives a message in userMessage, a loading state is shown in Slack. However, my app forwards the message to a service that will post asynchronously. I think the best UX is to always respond even after a delay, but I wanted to confirm whether the loading state could be canceled?

[seratch]

Hi @GxDesign, thanks for writing in. I might not yet fully understand what your question is, but calling setStatus("") can delete typing indicator in the assistant DM thread UI. If this is not an answer to your question, please share more details such as code examples, screenshots to help us better understand what you're trying to do.

[GxDesign]

Thanks for the reply, I was referring to the loading skeleton thats displayed. I saw that setStatus changes the text below the skeleton but havent yet tried whether the above cancels the skeleton as well.

[GxDesign]

My use case is that we are forwarding messages to an LLM service. We will not get an immediate response and the async responses will often not be within 3 seconds. We've exposed an endpoint from our slack integration service for the LLM to respond to when its done processing. Can we acknowledge from the userMessage handler without actually sending a message?