Transport-Agnostic Chat Contract R package chat.api version 0.1.0 A transport-agnostic contract for chat-room connectivity: connect, poll, and send against one interface, with adapters for 'Matrix' <https://spec.matrix.org/>, 'Slack' <https://api.slack.com/>, 'Telegram' <https://core.telegram.org/bots/api>, and Internet Relay Chat (IRC). An in-memory adapter supports local testing. Capability flags describe support for threads, markup dialects, encryption, and per-message identity. Platform clients are supplied by optional packages; the core interface uses only base R. Software Depends: R (>= 4.0) Suggests: httr, mx.api, mx.client (>= 0.2.1), mx.crypto (>= 0.2.2), slackr, telegram, tinytest Troy Hernandez <troy@cornball.ai> Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) Troy Hernandez [aut, cre] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0009-0005-4248-604X>), cornball.ai [cph] Apache License (>= 2) 2026-09-27 application/tgz https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=chat.api doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.chat.api