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inbox.message_received · Planned: built in order of demand

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What it is

Private: from accounts you connect, delivered only to you.

  • Example: New Instagram DM: Is the blue one still available?
  • Standard envelope; a typed payload schema comes with its first source
  • Not collected yet: ask for it and it moves up the list

Used for

Example event, standard format
{
  "specversion": "1.0",
  "id": "evt_01M5EV0NM0GQ3WHJKANZQZ9JS9",
  "type": "inbox.message_received",
  "source": "/sources/examples/inbox",
  "time": "2026-10-21T09:00:00Z",
  "observed_at": "2026-10-21T09:00:42Z",
  "dataschema": "https://schemas.worldsignals.dev/inbox.message_received/1.json",
  "datacontenttype": "application/json",
  "visibility": "private",
  "tenant": "tnt_example",
  "subject": {
    "kind": "message",
    "name": "Direct message",
    "ws_id": "ent_01M5EV0NM0T1X12XCN9ERZ7KBR"
  },
  "entities": [
    {
      "kind": "account",
      "role": "inbox",
      "name": "@yourbrand on Instagram"
    }
  ],
  "title": "New Instagram DM: Is the blue one still available?",
  "data": {
    "channel": "instagram_dm",
    "text": "Hi, is the blue one still available?"
  },
  "provenance": {
    "source_id": "example",
    "source_name": "Example data",
    "url": "https://example.com/worldsignals/inbox.message_received",
    "licence": "Example only, not a real record",
    "method": "example"
  },
  "confidence": 0.95,
  "personal_data": true,
  "revision": 1,
  "tags": [
    "example"
  ]
}

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