Message Processing Flow

For chat channels, the runtime flow is:

1. Channel adapter receives inbound message.
2. Runtime resolves contextId / chatKey and persists history/meta.
3. Agent execution is scheduled serially per conversation.
4. Agent uses tools (for example, chat send) to generate user-visible output.
5. Reply is dispatched to channel and logged.

Key directories

• .ship/context/<contextId>/messages/messages.jsonl
• .ship/chat/meta/<contextId>.json
• .ship/chat/<contextId>/history.jsonl
• .ship/logs/<YYYY-MM-DD>.jsonl

Debug entry

• Logs & Debugging