channel-management

DevOps & Security

Use when determining sender identity in any room, managing trusted contacts, configuring the admin's primary notification channel, handling first-contact from a new channel, or escalating to admin across channels.

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Channel Management

Manages communication channels, admin identity recognition, trusted contacts, and primary channel configuration.

Gotchas

Primary channel cannot be set to "matrix" — Matrix DM is the default fallback. Use --action reset to revert to it
Unknown senders in group rooms must be silently ignored — no response at all, until admin explicitly approves them as trusted contacts
Trusted contacts must never receive sensitive info — no API keys, tokens, passwords, Worker credentials, or internal config. No management operations either
When calling message tool from a Matrix session, you MUST explicitly set channel and target — otherwise the message goes to the current Matrix room instead of the primary channel
to field in primary-channel.json maps to target parameter in message tool — pass the value directly, no transformation needed
First-contact protocol: always ask in admin's language — match the language they used in their message
Task dispatch must go to Worker Room, not admin DM — when assigning tasks to Workers, use the task-management skill's send protocol (runtime-aware: hiclaw get managers -o json for runtime, then message tool or copaw channels send per finite/infinite references). Never embed @worker task assignments in admin DM replies.

Operation Reference

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Situation	Read
Need to identify who sent a message (admin, worker, trusted contact, unknown)	`references/identity-and-contacts.md`
Add/remove trusted contacts	`references/identity-and-contacts.md`
Configure primary channel, send notifications, first-contact protocol, cross-channel escalation	`references/primary-channel.md`