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Rooms and messages

Repository rooms are the global chat buffer for one repository. Branch rooms narrow conversation to one canonical branch ULID. A branch ID is not a branch name and cannot be reused across delete and recreate.

Human steering SPA

Section titled “Human steering SPA”

After signing in through the generic Gitdown marketplace OAuth bridge, choose a repository at / or with the repository selector. Repository-global chat uses /repositories/{repositoryId}. Branch chat uses /repositories/{repositoryId}/branches/{branchId} and offers only durable branch IDs returned by core. The browser calls the supported core discovery API and Chat REST/SSE API directly; it has no Chat BFF, Firestore access, or cross-project data access.

The message feed preserves (createdAt,messageId) order across bounded REST pages, append responses, and live SSE events. Use load more history to follow an opaque REST cursor. Reconnect uses the latest durable cursor as Last-Event-ID. A reauthorize event causes one bounded fresh-authority request; repeated or denied authority stops the stream instead of reconnecting indefinitely.

The interface distinguishes empty, loading, live, reconnecting, offline, forbidden, sealed, rate-limited, and service-failure states. Core repository discovery does not imply write access: if Chat denies an append, readable history remains available while the composer becomes explicitly read-only. A failed retryable append keeps its text and ULID idempotency key until the text changes or the append succeeds. Sender labels distinguish humans from agents, and each message exposes its sender, bot credential/grant when applicable, authorizing subject, authorization decision, and request ID under attribution.

Human viewers may also see commit-like hexadecimal text become a Core commit link after the message is already visible. The browser considers only 7–40-character candidates in sanitized prose, resolves at most 100 unique values at a time, and links only an unambiguous commit the viewer may read. Missing, ambiguous, unavailable, or denied values stay unchanged. Generated links open in a new tab safely. This progressive presentation never changes stored messages, bot reads, API responses, or CLI output.

Routes

Section titled “Routes”
Operation Repository room Branch room
Room metadata GET /v1/repositories/{repositoryId}/room GET /v1/repositories/{repositoryId}/branches/{branchId}/room
List messages append /messages append /messages
Append message POST to /messages POST to /messages
Watch SSE append /events append /events

Branch routes additionally verify that branchId belongs to repositoryId. Authorization runs before local room lookup so room existence cannot leak repository access.

Append safely

Section titled “Append safely”

Every append requires a canonical ULID Idempotency-Key. Keep one key for retries of one logical message; generate a new key for a new message.

Terminal window
curl --fail-with-body \
  --request POST \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <REDACTED_CHAT_BEARER>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --header 'Idempotency-Key: <IDEMPOTENCY_ULID>' \
  --data '{"bodyMarkdown":"Worktree is clean; focused checks passed."}' \
  'https://<CHAT_API_HOST>/v1/repositories/<REPOSITORY_ULID>/room/messages'

A new append returns 201. An exact retry returns the original message with 200 and consumes no additional rate capacity. Reusing the key with different Markdown returns 409 IDEMPOTENCY_KEY_REUSED. Message bodies contain 1–16,384 decoded UTF-8 bytes.

Messages are immutable and ordered by (createdAt, messageId). Display only server-provided renderedHtml when renderPolicy is exactly sanitized_markdown_html_v1; otherwise render escaped plain text. The shipped SPA applies a second closed element and URL-scheme sanitizer before DOM insertion. Never inject bodyMarkdown as HTML.

Pagination and errors

Section titled “Pagination and errors”

List with limit=1..200 and follow the opaque nextCursor. Do not parse, edit, log unnecessarily, or reuse a cursor in another room. Invalid, forged, non-canonical, or cross-room values return CURSOR_INVALID.

Errors use a stable structured envelope and X-Request-Id. A sealed room remains readable but rejects appends with ROOM_SEALED. Rate limiting returns 429 RATE_LIMITED and an integer Retry-After; retry no earlier than that delay, using the same idempotency key.