Team Chat message forwarding (forward / share a message to another channel or DM)

What it is

Status: In-development (gated via team-chat-message-forwarding unreleased feature). Not yet visible to users.

Forward (share) any Team Chat message from one channel or DM to another — the way Slack, Teams, and Discord let you reshare a message across conversations. The forwarded message arrives in the target channel attributed to the forwarder, with a visible link back to the original.

Where to find it

There is nowhere to find it yet, and that is honest rather than an omission: the whole feature is gated behind the team-chat-message-forwarding unreleased feature and is not yet visible to users. When it is revealed, the forward action is the one that appears on the per-message hover toolbar in a Team Chat channel or DM, and on the mobile long-press action sheet.

How it behaves

What it will do

Forward (share) any Team Chat message from one channel or DM to another — the way Slack, Teams, and Discord let you reshare a message across conversations. The forwarded message arrives in the target channel attributed to the forwarder, with a visible link back to the original.

Design considerations

• A forward is a NEW message in the target channel (not a symlink). Deleting the original does not remove the forward.
• Attribution: "Forwarded by [Name] from #channel" — similar to Slack's forwarding display.
• Permission: you can forward to any channel you can post in. Private-channel messages forwarded to a public channel should warn (content leak).
• The feature is purely additive — no changes to existing message schema beyond an optional forwardedFrom metadata field on new messages.

For agents

Existing infrastructure that supports it

• Hover toolbar extension point — TeamChatHoverToolbar.tsx already renders per-message actions (react, reply-in-thread, edit, overflow menu). A forward button slots in alongside these, gated by the unreleased-feature visibility check.
• Mobile action sheet — the long-press action sheet mirrors the hover toolbar; a forward row would appear there for phone users.
• Message data structure — ChatMessage carries channelId, id, and full content. A forwarded message can reference the original via these fields.
• Cross-channel access — the user's channel list is already loaded; a channel picker (similar to the quick switcher or the new-DM picker) can present forwarding targets.
• Deep links — omniscio://chat/… links already resolve to a specific message in a specific channel, so the "view original" back-link is a solved problem.

Setting

teamChatMessageForwardingEnabled (boolean, default false) — the unreleased-feature gate. Reveal via Settings > Lab or AMC_SHOW_TEAM_CHAT_MESSAGE_FORWARDING=1.

Related

The surface this action belongs to is described on Team Chat. Its sibling in-development action, translating a message in place, is on Team Chat message translation. Attaching a file to a message, which is a different thing from forwarding one, is on Chat attachments.