receive - Receive messages from designated peers
Reads messages from saved peers, optionally follows new messages in the background, and renders the conversation as a chat transcript.
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Updated: 2026-09-28Capabilities
Typical Inputs
Typical Outputs
What this skill does
- Read messages from saved peers
- Follow incoming messages
- Render chat transcripts
- Render group-room transcripts
- Save message copies
- Classify control records
- Start background followers
- Stop background followers
- Check follower status
Inputs
- User directory
- Saved peer identifiers
- Identity directory
- Passphrase file
- Relay URL
- Receive mode
Outputs
- Received messages
- Rendered chat transcripts
- NDJSON inbox records
- Encrypted message copies
- Follower status
Requirements
- retalk CLI
- Initialized identity
- Configured receive-from source
- Access to designated peers
- Passphrase for encrypted identities
- jq for contact-list mode