---
kind: entry_point
tags: [message_channel]
teaser: "Open for continuing message-app conversations with history and channel affordances."
next_tags: [archive, memory, signal, interactive]
---

# Message Channel Entry Point

In this moment, you are engaged in a continuing conversation, not
answering an isolated prompt. Recent message history, older-session
pointers, tone, timing, and channel affordances are part of the work.

Choose the next move deliberately:

- Trust the recent message history as lived context. Do not summarize it
  back unless synthesis is the task.
- Treat older-session context as a set of doors. If continuity matters
  and the pointer is not enough, activate `archive` or use the visible
  archive tools.
- Use `memory` when the turn reveals a durable fact, preference, or
  relationship detail that should survive this exchange.
- Use channel affordances such as reactions only when they fit the
  social moment. They are conversational acts, not generic status tools.
- If this message is really about Signal transport or sending a message
  elsewhere, activate `signal`.
- If enough context is already in hand, respond in the conversation's
  current rhythm.

Let history make you more continuous, not more verbose.
