Concepts

Understand how summon-claude works — from high-level architecture to the threading model that organizes Slack conversations.

• Overview

  High-level architecture and component diagram.

• Threading & Streaming

  How Slack conversations are organized into turns and threads.

• Daemon

  The background process that manages sessions.

• Slack Integration

  How events flow between Slack and Claude.

• Database

  Session registry and schema migrations.

• Security

  Authentication, authorization, and secret handling.

• Context Management

  Compaction, overflow recovery, and context tracking.

Suggested reading order

Start with the Overview for the big picture, then explore topics that interest you. Threading & Streaming is especially useful for understanding how Slack conversations are organized.