Fail to send a message to a team with a restricted bot

[tdeheurles]

Hi,

I fail to send messages to a team with a restricted bot.

TL-DR:
I answer directly to my post, as I found my error. I hope it can help others as I didn't find the information in the documentation.

The issue was to use a channel definition and not a proper Conversation ID. You can find the conversation ID by using the keybase CLI:

 keybase chat conv-info teamname.subteam
ConversationName: teamname.subteamname#general
ConversationID: 000abcd...acb0251    # fake
ConvIDShort: 00...c452               # fake

whereas a channel definition is an object like this:

{
       name: teamname.subteamname,
       membersType: "team",
       topicType: "chat",
       topicName: "general",
       public: false
}

The valid code is:

const botpaperkey = "..."
await bot.init('botname', botPaperkey);
const team = "teamname.subteamname"
await bot.chat.send("000abcd...acb0251", { body: `Hello` });

To Keybase-bot team: maybe put a comment on what is exactly a ConversationID (as it's not present in the UI, we can think it's something like the name of the channel).

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The issue I did have:

My understanding is a restricted bot can only read specific messages (the one defined by configuration) and is allowed to send messages to a team (standard or big team). I'm trying without success to send messages to my team with a restricted bot while I succeed in sending messages with a non-restricted bot.

const botpaperkey = "..."
await bot.init('botname', botPaperkey);
const team = "teamname.subteamname"
await bot.chat.send({
         name: team,
         membersType: "team",
         topicName: "general",
         topicType: "chat",
         public: false
}, {
   body: `Hello`,
});

membersType

I tried with and without the membersType. Without, I have a unknown user assertion.

Topic Name

I tried with and without this.
If I use general, it results in Restricted bots are unable to create conversations or decrypt channel names. Use an existing conversation via conversation ID.

Conversation ID

I tried different patterns for the conversation ID. team, team.subteam, team.subteam#general without success.
I also checked in the UI to find the conversation ID
--> this was my error, conversation ID can be found with the Keybase CLI

For reference
I did create my bot with:

keybase bot token create
keybase --standalone --home=/tmp/bot bot signup --username="${botname}"  --token="${token}"