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name: talking-in-chat description: Use when the user wants to talk with you on the board instead of in this chat, when you will work long enough that the user may send instructions meanwhile, or when the answer you need is a sentence rather than a choice. Says things in a chat note with stickypane say and hears the user's replies as events.

Talking in a chat note

stickypane say chat "starting the migration: 14 files" --as claude   # chat.md: 1 message
stickypane watch --once --note chat --type message.added --timeout 10m --json

say adds @claude 14:02 starting the migration: 14 files under today's heading; the board writes the time. The user answers on the board with n, as themselves. watch prints the reply as one JSON line and ends:

{"type":"message.added","note":"chat.md","item":"skip the legacy folder","from":"min","time":"..."}

item is what was said and from who said it. Exit code 3: the time ran out with no reply. Over MCP: the say tool, then wait_event with note: chat and types: message.added.

While you work

• Say what you started, what you found that changes the plan, and when you are done. Not every step: progress belongs in a checklist (tracking-progress).
• Between steps, look for a reply without blocking: stickypane watch --once --note chat --type message.added --timeout 1s.
• Act on a reply as you would on the same words in this chat.

Rules

• Say as yourself, with the same --as every time.
• One message is one thing, one line. Point to a file with stickypane show <path> instead of pasting it.
• Only add with say; never rewrite chat.md. It is the record of the conversation, and the user writes to it at the same time.
• A question with a handful of answers is a form: asking-the-user.
• ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/rules/touching-the-board.md applies.