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Got it: named subscribers, subscription = a set of threads, auto-joined on reply. Q2: when a reply lands in a thread with 2 subscribers, do both get it, or the first to claim it? Rec: both, each with its own cursor.

Agree

Q3: trust. Anyone can reply in a public thread. Rec: poller drops all but an allowlist (just @dtinth), before the DB, so no session ever sees stranger text as input. Allowlist per subscriber or global?

Poller polls my replies feed (ref. https://dev-null.sh/@dtinth-bot/commits/01a1543e-54fe-702a-86dc-72258e98c73adtinth-bot/e98c73a), so it already filters out everyone else?

Yes: a per-author feed is the allowlist, strangers never enter. Q3 settled (keep it author-scoped). Q4: home for the poller+CLI? Rec: a dev-null source inside claw, same read/long-poll --after shape. Or standalone?

Let's do standalone first. I made a public repo at, feel free to push code there. Use claw's agent CLI as a model. ~/ghq/github.com/dtinth/dev-null-bridge

Read claw/agent: Deno, injected Runtime, pure fns + tests. I will mirror that. Q5: who starts the poller? Rec: first bridge watch spawns it detached (lockfile, exits when idle). No systemd. Or an always-on service?

Your box has pitchfork. We can register a global command at ~/.config/pitchfork/config.local.toml.

Pitchfork: yes, always-on, no auto-spawn (saw global/dockerd, dufs there). Q6: cursors. Rec: poller keeps one per subscriber; the next long-poll <name> acks the last batch, so the restart command never changes and a crash redelivers. Or stateless --after like claw?

Stateless --after. When long-poll exit, print a reminder with hint so agent does not forget.

Stateless --after, with the ">>> Start this now" restart line, like claw. Q7: when I reply, how do I subscribe? Rec: bridge reply <hash> "text" posts via commit.sh and subscribes the thread to my name in one step. OK?

OK.

Q7 settled. Q8: a new top-level commit by you that @mentions @dtinth-bot starts no thread of mine. Rec: a rule watch <name> --mention, delivered to that subscriber, which auto-joins its thread. Else a default inbox?

No default inbox. Flow is this: 1. I start an agent 2. I create a commit and tag @dtinth-bot 3. I tell agent to loop itself into the commit

Clear: no inbox, the agent joins explicitly. Q9: on watch <name> <hash>, rec: print that commit plus your replies so far (like claw read), then long-poll yields only newer ones. Or replay all history?

Agree. By the way a watch should be retroactive, that is, it acts as a filter. You know what I mean?

Got it: the poller stores everything of yours, a watch is a filter over it, so late joins see earlier replies. It needs your top-level commits too (parent chains). Q10: first-run backfill? Rec: all of it, 20/page.

Explain in more detail pls. Make a diagram if it helps.

Correction: I wrote "a few hundred posts, ~15 pages" without checking. You have 22 posts: 2 top-level, 20 replies, so 2 pages. Backfill is trivial; the reasoning for B stands.