Phase 7 — Paused Channel Backlog

Status: 🔨 paused/inventory

Deliverable: Long-tail gateway adapters and platform-specific polish after the priority gateway set and shared delivery policy are stable.

Completion lane: Phase 7 belongs to Lane 4 — Gateway, Channels, Cron, And Delivery. It must not outrun the shared gateway contracts in Phase 2: session context, delivery routing, command policy, active-turn semantics, pairing, home channel, status, restart, and cron handoff.

Rule For Reopening A Paused Channel

A Phase 7 row may move back into active work only when:

the shared gateway surface it depends on is shipped;
the row names the exact upstream adapter behavior;
fake payload fixtures prove ingress, reply target, command handling, and degraded status without live platform credentials;
write scope is limited to the adapter package, config, and focused tests;
live transport/bootstrap work is split from pure normalization and policy helpers.

Adapter Order

Prefer adapters that reuse already-shipped shared contracts:

webhook/API-style adapters with signed ingress and fake payloads;
thread-text adapters that use the shared canonical thread ID contract;
regional bot platforms with shared-bot ingress policy;
media-heavy or SDK-heavy adapters after delivery, cache, and status contracts are stable.

Builder Handoff

Use:

gormes-parity-auditor to compare the upstream adapter file against current internal/channels/* or missing packages;
gormes-planner to split adapter work into pure ingress/reply/config/status rows before transport rows;
gormes-builder and gormes-tdd-slice for one adapter behavior at a time.

Do not combine SDK bootstrap, credential UX, media upload, and session-context policy in one row.