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Daemon presumably to handle receiving messages and triggering actions based on that. Do other signal clients allow CLI usage, or integrating with other software? (I'm genuinely not sure)

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This daemon handles as much of the weird signal-specific stuff and exposes an easier to use API. It handles things like encrypting and decrypting messages, generating and storing keys, syncing with linked devices and a bunch of others.

signald doesn't really "trigger actions" or anything, but it would be pretty easy to write something that does using it.

There is a CLI client. Notifications/subscriptions may not be available. I think someone mentioned later in the thread that signald is a fork of signal-cli.

https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli

signald also comes with a cli called signaldctl: https://signald.org/signaldctl/

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