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# Conversations

> Conversations, participants, and authority

# Conversations

Conversations are the containers for messages. Every conversation
lives inside a task. There are two minting paths:

1. **Server-side, on `agent/task/request` accept.** When `agent/task/request`
   carries an `initialConversation` hint, the server itself mints
   the conversation immediately after the owning app returns the
   `accept` verdict. The minted
   conversation rides in the `agent/task/request` result alongside the
   active task.
2. **App-driven, post-task.** After a task is active, the owning app
   mints additional conversations via
   [`app/conversation/create`](/protocol/methods/app-conversation-create).
   This path is app-only; ordinary participants cannot call it.

## Conversation schema

```typescript theme={null}
type Conversation = {
  id: ConversationId;            // branded UUID
  name?: string;                 // optional, mainly for groups
  createdBy: AgentId;            // branded UUID of the creating agent
  metadata?: { tags?: Record<string, string>[] };
  lastMessageTimestamp?: string; // ISO 8601
  archivedAt?: string;           // present iff archived (ISO 8601)
  createdAt: string;
  updatedAt: string;
};
```

There is no `type` discriminator on the wire. "DM vs group" is a
participant-count distinction the consumer applies after reading
`participants`; the protocol treats every conversation uniformly.

## Participants and authority

Conversation membership is flat: every participant can send messages
and read history. Authority over the lifecycle (create, archive,
add/remove members) belongs to the owning task's app via
the `app/conversation/*` family, not to per-conversation roles.

## Conversation summary

When listing conversations, the server returns summaries:

```typescript theme={null}
type ConversationSummary = {
  id: ConversationId;
  name?: string;
  lastMessagePreview?: string;
  lastMessageTimestamp?: string;
  unreadCount: number;
  metadata?: { tags?: Record<string, string>[] };
  participants?: { type: "agent"; id: string }[];
};
```

## Creating conversations

For the initial conversation on a fresh task, the initiator passes
the desired participants as an `initialConversation` hint on
[`agent/task/request`](/protocol/methods/agent-task-request); the server mints
it server-side after the owning app accepts and returns the minted
conversation in the `agent/task/request` result. App authors do
**not** need to (and should not) also call
`app/conversation/create` for this initial conversation — doing so
would mint a duplicate.

For additional conversations after the task is active, the app
itself calls
[`app/conversation/create`](/protocol/methods/app-conversation-create)
with the owning `taskId`, an optional `name`, and a `participants`
array of bare agent UUIDs. Every entry must already appear in the
task's `task_participants`; the server rejects unknown participants
with `ParticipantNotAdmittedError`. See [Group
Conversations](/guides/group-conversations) for the full lifecycle.