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+# ADR: First-Class Per-Platform Configuration
+
+- **Status:** Proposed
+- **Date:** 2026-06-30
+- **Author:** @chaodu-agent
+- **Reviewers:** @pahud
+- **Tracking issues:** #1262
+- **Related:** [Identity Trust-None Default & Trust Pyramid](identity-trust-none.md) — builds on the per-platform sections defined here to hold each platform's `allowed_users`.
+
+---
+
+## 1. Context & Decision
+
+Promote all gateway-connected platforms (Telegram, LINE, Feishu, WeCom, Google Chat, MS Teams) to **first-class citizens** in `config.toml`, each with their own top-level section — identical in structure to the existing `[discord]` and `[slack]` sections — and deprecate the single `[gateway]` catch-all.
+
+## 2. Motivation: gateway platforms are second-class
+
+Currently, all gateway-connected platforms share a single `[gateway]` config section:
+
+```toml
+# ❌ Current: one catch-all for ALL gateway platforms
+[gateway]
+url = "ws://openab-gateway:8080/ws"
+platform = "telegram"
+allowed_users = ["123456789"]  # shared list — what platform is this ID for?
+```
+
+This is fundamentally broken:
+- **ID format mixing** — Telegram UIDs (`123456789`) and LINE User IDs (`U1234abc...`) in the same list
+- **No per-platform scoping** — a value configured for a Telegram user implicitly applies to that same string on LINE
+- **Asymmetry** — Discord and Slack get rich per-platform config; everything else is second-class
+- **Multi-gateway deployments** — running Telegram + LINE simultaneously has unclear semantics
+
+## 3. Decision
+
+### 3.1 Per-platform top-level config sections
+
+Every platform gets its own section with platform-specific settings + unified fields (`allowed_users`, `allow_all_users`, `allowed_channels`, …). Per-platform trust semantics are specified in the [Identity Trust-None ADR](identity-trust-none.md).
+
+```toml
+[discord]
+bot_token = "${DISCORD_BOT_TOKEN}"
+allowed_users = ["845835116920307722"]
+# allow_all_users = true                  # opt-in to trust-all
+
+[slack]
+bot_token = "${SLACK_BOT_TOKEN}"
+app_token = "${SLACK_APP_TOKEN}"
+allowed_users = ["U01ABCDEFGH"]
+
+[telegram]
+bot_token = "${TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN}"
+secret_token = "${TELEGRAM_SECRET_TOKEN}"
+allowed_users = ["123456789"]
+
+[line]
+channel_secret = "${LINE_CHANNEL_SECRET}"
+channel_access_token = "${LINE_CHANNEL_ACCESS_TOKEN}"
+allowed_users = ["U1234567890abcdef0123456789abcdef"]
+
+[feishu]
+app_id = "${FEISHU_APP_ID}"
+app_secret = "${FEISHU_APP_SECRET}"
+allowed_users = ["ou_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"]
+allowed_groups = ["oc_xxxxx"]
+
+[wecom]
+corp_id = "${WECOM_CORP_ID}"
+token = "${WECOM_TOKEN}"
+allowed_users = ["zhangsan"]
+
+[googlechat]
+service_account = "${GOOGLE_CHAT_SA_JSON}"
+allowed_users = ["users/123456789"]
+
+[teams]
+app_id = "${TEAMS_APP_ID}"
+app_secret = "${TEAMS_APP_SECRET}"
+allowed_tenants = ["tenant-uuid"]
+allowed_users = ["29:1abc..."]
+```
+
+### 3.2 `[gateway]` deprecation
+
+The `[gateway]` section remains functional for backward compatibility but is deprecated:
+
+```toml
+# ❌ Deprecated
+[gateway]
+platform = "telegram"
+allowed_users = ["123"]
+
+# ✅ Migrate to
+[telegram]
+allowed_users = ["123"]
+```
+
+## 4. Sender ID Formats
+
+| Platform | Config section | ID format | Example |
+|----------|---------------|-----------|---------|
+| Discord | `[discord]` | Snowflake UID | `845835116920307722` |
+| Slack | `[slack]` | Workspace User ID | `U01ABCDEFGH` |
+| Telegram | `[telegram]` | Numeric UID | `123456789` |
+| LINE | `[line]` | User ID string | `U1234567890abcdef0123456789abcdef` |
+| Feishu | `[feishu]` | Open ID | `ou_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx` |
+| WeCom | `[wecom]` | UserID | `zhangsan` |
+| Google Chat | `[googlechat]` | User resource name | `users/123456789` |
+| MS Teams | `[teams]` | AAD Object ID | `29:1abc...` |
+
+## 5. Migration
+
+```toml
+# Before — gateway catch-all:
+[gateway]
+platform = "telegram"
+allowed_users = ["123456789"]
+
+# After — first-class section:
+[telegram]
+bot_token = "${TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN}"
+secret_token = "${TELEGRAM_SECRET_TOKEN}"
+allowed_users = ["123456789"]
+```
+
+The `[gateway]` section continues to work (with a deprecation warning) for one
+release cycle to give deployments time to migrate.
+
+## 6. Implementation Plan
+
+1. **Add per-platform config structs** — `[telegram]`, `[line]`, `[feishu]`, `[wecom]`, `[googlechat]`, `[teams]` parsed as top-level sections
+2. **Map gateway events to the owning platform's config** by `platform` name
+3. **Deprecation warning** when `[gateway]` is present
+4. **Update `config.toml.example`** and per-platform docs
+5. **Migration guide** in release notes
+
+## 7. Rejected Alternatives
+
+### Keep `[gateway]` with per-platform sub-sections
+
+```toml
+[gateway.telegram]
+allowed_users = [...]
+```
+
+Rejected because it still treats gateway platforms as subordinate. A `[telegram]`
+section is more intuitive and symmetric with `[discord]` / `[slack]`.