Reference

Every tool the channel exposes, every state file, and the schedules that run without being asked.

Live.

Tools

Tool	What it does
`reply`	send a message: text or voice, with optional files, buttons, priority and topic
`react`	put an emoji reaction on one of their messages
`edit_message`	rewrite a message Otto already sent, with no new notification
`read_history`	read the conversation back from the history log
`download_attachment`	pull a photo, document or voice note into the local inbox
`brief`	the rolling snapshot of the day
`recall`	search the notes store and durable memories together
`remember`	write a note or a durable memory
`forget`	delete a durable memory
`consolidate_memory`	force the nightly distillation pass out of band
`create_trigger`	arm a cron or email trigger
`update_trigger`	change an armed trigger
`delete_trigger`	disarm one
`list_triggers`	what is armed, and when each next fires
`snooze`	hold non-urgent messages until a time
`proactivity_report`	per source: sent, engaged, silent streak
`set_email_state`	move the email scan checkpoint

Send parameters worth knowing

priority is urgent or normal. Normal may be held; urgent never is.

topic is a stable slug naming what a message is about. Two proactive sends under one topic within a few hours collapse to the first unless the content materially changed. Omit it and the send is keyed by its trigger, which already catches the restart burst.

voice overrides the channel's default for one send. Omit it and the channel speaks whenever they last spoke.

Files

File	Holds
`access.json`	allowlist, quiet hours, voice policy, chunking
`triggers.json`	armed triggers
`email-state.json`	scan checkpoints
`notes.json`	facts, loops, saved items, write log
`queue.json`	held messages
`topics.json`	what was said recently, per topic
`history.jsonl`	both directions, with attribution
`runtime.json`	session runtime state
`digests/`, `inbox/`	composed digests, downloaded attachments

All of it is machine-local, mode 0600, written atomically. Durable memories are markdown under the Claude memory directories.

Schedules

When	What
every hour	email scan, suppressed during quiet hours
08:57	morning brief
04:00	memory consolidation
short cycle	brief rebuild
on the hold lifting	queue flush, coalesced

Conventions in the code

Decision logic is pure and tested; plumbing lives at the edges. Files are written to a temp path and renamed, so a crash mid-write cannot truncate state. A corrupt file is moved aside with a note on stderr, never deleted and never silently ignored. There are no external dependencies: Bun and the standard library only.

Tools added by the later waves

Beyond the core list above, the channel also exposes the substrate tools: delegate and jobs for background work, record_money and spending, record_trip and trips, note_contact and who, projects, body, forge, self_edit_check, self_test, watchdog_report, capability_log and revert_capability.

Scheduler ticks cover the rest: the calendar poll, the nightly repo scan, the repetition miner, the watchdog probes and the loop escalation sweep.