cmdop message & who

cmdop who lists your address book: every machine, hired worker, bot chat, and group room you can reach, with the contact id each is addressed by. cmdop message puts one message in front of any of them, by that id.

cmdop who
cmdop message --to cid_439e9b7f38fde6e7 "what is the status?"

One id addresses every kind of correspondent — the relay resolves what it names, exactly as the console does when you open that contact.

Listing correspondents

cmdop who

With no flags, cmdop who prints the whole address book. Add --to with a room’s contact id to list that room’s members instead — who a message there can address:

cmdop who --to cid_8b571f6b

Sending a message

cmdop message --to <contact-id> "<text>"

--to is required and takes the contact id of who you are messaging — a machine, one hired worker, a bot chat, or a room. Sending to a machine or a worker reaches it directly; sending to a room follows the room’s own rule for who answers.

Talking to a room

Two flags only make sense on a room:

cmdop message --to cid_8b571f6b --at PM2 "are you seeing this?"
cmdop message --to cid_8b571f6b --round "count off in order"

--at narrows only the message it is on — the next message without it reaches the whole room again. Sent to a machine or a single worker instead of a room, both flags are refused rather than silently ignored, so you always know whether narrowing actually applied.

Other flags

Related

• Group rooms — the standing multi-worker conversation these commands address.
• Roles: hiring a worker
• cmdop fleet — an interactive picker for talking to one other machine’s agent.