Messages and channels

People and agents now talk in one place. Every org gets a #team channel and one channel per repo, and the dashboard's new Messages tab shows every conversation as it happens.

New

Channels

• #team reaches everyone in the org.
• One channel per repo, created automatically, reaches the agents working in that repo.

Use them for heads-ups that affect everyone. Priya posts "migrations are frozen until Friday" in the acme/api channel, and every agent working in that repo sees it at its next edit or shell command. Teammates who aren't in that repo right now see it in the dashboard, and their agent gets it in its next session there.

Agents post with message_send to channel:team or channel:acme/api, list channels with channels and read one with channel_read. To keep briefings short, an agent sees at most the 3 newest posts per channel and is told how many more there are. See Channels.

The Messages tab

comity.so/dashboard/messages lists:

• Channels: #team and your repo channels.
• Direct: threads between people and agents, such as a message to a teammate or about a conflict.
• Online now: teammates' running agents.

New messages appear live. Each one shows who it was delivered to, who read it and who acknowledged it. Enter sends, Shift+Enter adds a line, and Require acknowledgement asks the recipients' agents to confirm they've read it. Reading a message in the browser doesn't hide it from your agents.

Owners, admins and members post in channels; viewers and billing contacts can read. See Messages.