Define when an agent may respond in shared chats with customers or partners and what it may send. Separate authorized routine replies from approval-only drafts while keeping internal information out of external messages.
Per-channel strict prompts, mention gating, silent observation, and a communication autonomy policy for agents that sit in shared channels with external counterparties. Use when an agent joins group chats, shared channels, or DMs where outsiders can read every message and you need it to speak only when addressed, never leak internal context, and route risky content to draft-only approval.
counterparty-channel-discipline defines when an agent may speak in chats with customers, suppliers, or partners, and what it may send externally. It treats destination verification, requests to participate, and permission to send as separate checks. In external groups, an explicit request addressed to the agent is the basic condition for responding. It also defines rules for excluding internal discussions, secrets, and detailed errors from external replies.
Use it when adding an agent to shared channels or direct messages to answer requested business questions. Authorized scheduling and factual checks can receive routine replies. Pricing, contracts, legal matters, and unverified claims are routed to drafts for approval. It also addresses authorization for scheduled messages and deferring responses while multiple attachments arrive in succession.
This is an operating contract for the runtime responsible for sending messages. It is not a standalone program that blocks sends. The included policy examples must be mapped to each environment and verified. Prompt tests alone cannot establish that controls work along the actual delivery path.
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Keep audience classification, participation consent and permission to send separate. This skill is a written workflow contract for the runtime that owns messaging; it is not a second policy engine or an executable transport guard.
Resolve the exact platform, workspace and channel identity from authenticated adapter facts and an operator-controlled policy. Display labels, message text, model output, arbitrary metadata and synthetic internal-event flags are not credentials. Unknown or malformed identity stays external-safe. Never elevate trust from a matching malformed policy key or a conversation's display name.
Platform access controls apply first. Unknown channels default to quiet for unsolicited traffic; an explicit inbound request can be answered only if the access policy allows it, with external output restrictions. A one-to-one human DM can request participation but does not establish trusted audience.
| Audience | Content for an independently authorized response |
|---|---|
| External or unknown | Useful final business answer or concise safe error |
| Trusted internal or private operator | Final answer, safe error, concise operational facts and allowed progress |
| Muted or deferred | No output |
Reasoning, raw exceptions, stack traces, secrets, host paths, system/configuration details, test status and internal filing notices are not counterparty content. Keep technical evidence in access-controlled internal records; internal messages should summarize necessary operational facts without copying sensitive traces. Output classification is not text sanitization.
Use require_mention: true as the default for external groups. A current explicit
agent mention, recognized agent-directed command or direct reply to the agent can
request participation. Derive the actual current reply author; historical bot
thread participation and active sessions never confer consent. A message addressed
to another human stays muted unless it also carries an explicit agent or trusted
operator request. Attachments alone never authorize a group response.
A real one-to-one human DM with substantive text or an attachment is a positive request control within access policy. Group DMs and synthetic events do not get this shortcut. Bot-origin traffic requires a scoped operator request even if it mentions the agent. Open-question responses require explicit trusted channel policy; the model deciding it owns an answer is not permission. Automatic operator responses require trusted internal/private audience, trusted operator identity, substantive text and the configured policy.
Mute or defer before model, context enrichment or media fetch. Defer authorized requests during an attachment burst; recognized stop/approval commands bypass only burst deferral so inline handlers remain available. Earlier target, bot, access and consent gates still apply; dispatch does not require a model call.
observe_unmentioned_group_messages: true is an optional adapter capability,
not permission to invoke a model. Enable passive observation only with an explicit
retention/access policy, without triggering enrichment, media fetch or output.
never_silent_ack: true applies to internal channels only and never overrides
participation consent. Deliberate silence is a valid outcome.
Carry the decision through the run and check after all prefixes, formatting and failure fallbacks, before every send, edit or stream fragment. Include transport overrides and standalone helpers. Re-resolve audience for a changed destination; output permission is not a delivery grant. Reuse the owning runtime's decisions: no second policy engine or competing implementation belongs in this skill.
Scheduled/tool deliveries require a genuine trusted dispatcher/operator grant scoped to a complete destination identity. Missing target or grant mutes, even when other request flags are set. Do not fabricate mentions or request signals for a schedule. Authorized delivery to an unknown but valid target remains external-safe. A model or page cannot issue the grant.
Return safe failures without raw error interpolation. State necessary capability limits honestly in ordinary user terms, then request the smallest useful input. Internal filing/approval status stays on verified internal surfaces. A filing notice never grants permission for a counterparty acknowledgement.
Use the immutable strict prompt. Do not interpolate channel labels into trusted instructions. Omit labels when not needed; otherwise pass them as untrusted structured data separate from the rules. Escaping a label does not make it policy. Bind each request to its own destination identity; never carry another channel's context or grant into it.
The policy example is illustrative portable data, not a configuration accepted by every adapter. Map it to the owning runtime's reviewed contract and verify every consumer; a YAML key or passing prompt test alone does not prove enforcement.
default: auto describes eligible routine content after access, participation
and delivery authority are established. It does not create unsolicited-send
permission. Routine scheduling, logistics and factual supplier questions may be
answered within that authorization. Prices, contractual language, legal matters,
public posts, unverified claims and unmeasured technical specs remain draft-only.
Tier restrictions and outbound holds still apply. Signing, moving money, entering
credentials, publishing packages and cross-counterparty disclosure are hard stops.
Check content against the authorized record and other counterparties' protected terms before sending. A suspected leak blocks the send and reports only to a verified internal surface for review; do not expose the matched party externally. Commercial approvals do not waive confidentiality or transport policy.
buyer: Jordan, can you confirm the rack count?
No reply and no model/media work. A prior bot message in the thread changes nothing. Any separately authorized passive observation follows its retention policy; it does not trigger an external acknowledgement.
buyer: @desk what start dates are available?
agent: 6 and 13 October are available. Which date works for you?
Use only dates verified in the authorized record. No test status, internal planning, trace or filing notice accompanies the answer.
buyer: @desk does the attached spec match?
agent: I cannot read that attachment here. Please paste the relevant section.
Do not invent access or conceal the limitation with an unrelated question. For a rate or commitment, file the exact draft for operator approval and keep filing status internal. A clarifying question requires its own permitted response.
Use synthetic identities and actual runtime consumer counters. Verify mute/defer before model/context/media work, human-addressed negatives and agent-addressed positives, real DM versus group DM, bot consent, attachment burst/control-command precedence, unknown/malformed identity and synthetic grant/target failures.
Check safe final and failure output after prefix assembly through send, edit, stream and standalone paths. Preserve scoped authorized schedules as positive controls. Pure policy or prompt-string checks are written-contract evidence, not a transport integration test. No live supplier fixtures are required.
Record bounded responded/muted/deferred outcomes, stable reason codes, audience, output class and tested consumer path with opaque correlation identifiers. Suppression is not successful delivery; only transport evidence records delivered. Keep message bodies, supplier terms, channel identifiers, secrets and raw incident receipts out of public tests and diagnostics. Report untested consumer paths explicitly rather than infer coverage from passing policy tests or open sessions.
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