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Firstly, thank you so much!

Secondly, I think this is incredibly important moving forward with the proliferation of messaging channels. I want to be able to use one program for all of my different chat sessions. Whether that be adium or pidgin or mIRC or even weechat/bitlebee in a docker container. It would be great if there would be common plugins for common chat clients provided off the shelf. :D

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We didn't design Keybase's chat API to match any messaging standard, but the number of calls into it are very few and flexible, and we're open to change.

As it is right now, I imagine it would be very easy to write a library that acts as a bridge to other interfaces, if that's of interest.

There are calls to see into your "inbox" which is the set of conversations, read messages, even peek at unread messages. And of course send messages, too.

Two approaches that could get you very far without O(N) effort:

• a Matrix gateway server

• a libpurple plugin

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