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Send HQ Sync direct messages from Cowork through the host-side DM tool.
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Based on SOC occupation classification
Deploy or share generated HQ artifacts through hq-deploy.
Mark a company as HQ Pro cloud-backed and sync its team setup.
Send HQ Sync direct messages, prompts, details, or scheduled notes to teammates.
Run a full bidirectional sync for cloud-backed HQ companies.
Scaffold a new HQ company AND optionally take it all the way to operational — business-discovery interview, seeded knowledge/workers/skills/projects, brand design packs (generated from website/PDF/Drive and bound to deploys via policy), connected integrations, org groups + ACL rules, teammate invites, and optional cloud agents.
Resolve HQ Sync conflicts by choosing local, cloud, or discard.
| name | hq-cowork-dm |
| description | Send HQ Sync direct messages from Cowork through the host-side DM tool. |
| allowed-tools | mcp__hq__hq_dm |
Sends person-to-person HQ DMs from inside Cowork, where the hq CLI is
unreachable. Routes through the host-side MCP server. The recipient gets it
as an HQ Desktop App notification.
Args: $ARGUMENTS — recipient + message, plus optional flags.
| Arg | Meaning |
|---|---|
<recipient> | Email address or personUid of the teammate. Required. |
<message> | The message body. Required. |
--prompt <text> | Agent-context prompt the recipient can one-click copy into their agent. |
--details <text> | Longer detail shown in the recipient's DM detail window. |
--at <ISO8601> | Schedule delivery at an absolute time (store-and-forward). |
--in <delay> | Schedule after a relative delay: 30s, 10m, 2h, 1d. |
Before calling the tool, run the channel-aware humanize pass on the message
(and any prompt / details text) per
core/knowledge/public/hq-core/humanize-before-send.md — channel cowork-dm,
default intensity light: strip the obvious AI tells while keeping the message
terse and conversational. Never rewrite the recipient or scheduling fields.
{
"recipient": "<email-or-personUid>",
"message": "<body>",
"prompt": "<optional agent prompt>",
"details": "<optional detail body>",
"in": "30m"
}
Call mcp__hq__hq_dm. Use at OR in, not both.
/dmOnly inside Cowork or another sandboxed plugin host. On a host-side session,
prefer the unprefixed /dm (or hq dm).
hq dm authenticates with the user's Cognito session under ~/.hq, which
isn't visible from Cowork's Linux VM. The host-side MCP server runs the real
hq dm and returns its confirmation back to the sandboxed agent.