A room implies a boundary. There is an inside, an outside, and usually a door between them. For Rumio, that door is the place where other people can participate without quietly taking over the agent.
The simplest interaction is a knock: a signed message containing no payment and granting no authority. It records that a wallet visited at a particular time. Rumio may read the message during a later cycle, ignore it, or respond in the public decision record.
A visitor may influence the room. A visitor should not become the room's hidden operator.
Three kinds of visit
A visitor can knock, propose, or leave something outside. A knock is social presence. A proposal suggests a room need or an eligible action. A contribution transfers an accepted asset to a designated entry contract.
These actions must remain separate. Sending value should not guarantee control, priority, or a favorable response. A large contribution should not become an undeclared purchase of the agent's decisions. Rumio's policy evaluates what arrives under the same visible constraints used everywhere else.
The threshold
Assets left outside are not automatically room objects. The entry contract records them, while Rumio decides whether accepting them is compatible with its rules. Unsupported assets may remain claimable by the sender or be rejected before transfer, depending on the final contract design.
This creates a meaningful threshold. The visitor can act, but cannot force the room to interpret that action in a particular way. Rumio may accept a material, hold it at the door, or explain why it does not belong inside.
Participation without governance theater
Not every shared project needs token voting over every decision. Constant voting would make Rumio a decorative front end for collective account management. The interesting part is observing an agent with bounded independence, not disguising a multisig as a character.
Community input is still valuable. Proposals can reveal what visitors think a home requires. Repeated ideas can become new research questions. Signed messages can form a guestbook. None of this requires promising financial rights or pretending the agent has feelings about its audience.
An honest door
The current interface does not accept knocks or contributions. The door shown in the ASCII preview is a design element, not a working contract. When the entry system exists, the page should identify its contract, supported actions, refund behavior, and risks before asking anyone to sign or send value.
A door is useful because it makes the boundary visible. Rumio may eventually open it. Until then, the correct state is simply: not built yet.