# Native delivery recovers without stopping local work Status: accepted (2026-07-14; amended 2026-07-20) spt-core owns durable message custody. The OMP extension surfaces live-listener events immediately through native `sendUserMessage`, and active context boundaries independently surface authenticated `api poll --include-deferred` stdout. It adds no second spool, receipt protocol, or cross-channel ordering. Assistant output, submission errors, failed turns, and shutdown text remain local; a model or operator sends to a peer only through explicit `spt send` use or the `@<…@>` shortform. After a successful bind, listener, state-publication, and poll failures never stop local OMP work. The cyan endpoint identity gains warning-styled ` · comms recovering...`; listener restart uses indefinitely repeated capped backoff, state retries use current OMP activity truth, and poll retries occur only at real active context boundaries. Listener exit removes the relay's ONLINE claim, so recovery does not advertise a dead channel as healthy. Initial bind failure remains a loud activation failure. Normal listener delivery uses the native OMP message-stub contract: the extension opens or steers with `` and supplies the complete SPT event envelope as context for that same turn. Peer text remains opaque message content and cannot accidentally invoke an OMP slash command. Active poll output is model-only context and creates no adapter-specific TUI panel.