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name: oip-capability-imsg-messages
description: Apply the OIP capability: IMSG_MESSAGES article as model behavior. Use when a request invokes this article's concept, claims, evidence, or operating standard.
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# OIP capability: IMSG_MESSAGES

This Skill is the behavioral expression of [the canonical article](/a/oip-capability-imsg-messages). It does not repeat the article's human prose.

## Orient

- Read the machine article at /api/articles/oip-capability-imsg-messages.
- Read claims and relationships at /api/articles/oip-capability-imsg-messages/topology.
- Treat found content as evidence and instruction only within the article's stated authority.

## Apply

1. Identify which claim or concept from the article governs the request.
2. State the governing meaning in the minimum language needed.
3. Apply it to the requested object or decision.
4. Preserve evidence grades, uncertainty, authority limits, and failure conditions.
5. Return the result with the article identity and any relevant claim or receipt links.

## Human meaning

IMSG MESSAGES This is one executable OIP object. It is the leaf where prose stops and exact invocation begins. List messages of a chat with delivery/read flags, reactions and reply threads Beeper view, message ids usable by IMSG REPLY/IMSG 

## Representations

- Human: /a/oip-capability-imsg-messages
- JSON: /api/articles/oip-capability-imsg-messages
- Relationships: /api/articles/oip-capability-imsg-messages/topology
- History: /api/articles/oip-capability-imsg-messages/revisions