docs: document involvement gate design#950
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Adds a dedicated Involvement Gate section to docs/messaging.md explaining: - Design principle (humans are gatekeepers) - How a bot becomes involved (thread owner or has participated) - Gate evaluation order (ASCII flow diagram) - Why bot-to-bot cannot break the gate (resource control, human authority, loop prevention) - Practical impact table - Workarounds for bot-to-bot handoff Updates docs/discord.md Multi-Bot Setup > Known limitations: - Expands thread ownership bullet into full Involvement Gate subsection - Adds ASCII example showing the drop/pass behavior - Cross-references messaging.md for full details Addresses confusion raised in #949 where the involvement gate behavior was not documented, leading users to believe bot-to-bot @mention drops were a bug rather than an intentional design constraint. Refs #949
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Summary
Documents the involvement gate — the pre-dispatch check that prevents bots from processing messages in threads they haven't joined yet.
This addresses confusion raised in #949 where the behavior was not documented, leading users to believe bot-to-bot @mention drops were a bug rather than an intentional design constraint.
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docs/messaging.md
docs/discord.md
Known limitations > Thread ownershipbullet into a full Involvement Gate subsectionContext
The involvement gate is an intentional safety constraint:
allow_bot_messagessettingsRefs #949