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-name: "Matrix bot status command shows pipeline and agent availability"
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-
-# Story 284: Matrix bot status command shows pipeline and agent availability
-
-## User Story
-
-As a user in a Matrix room, I want to type "{bot_name} status" and get a formatted summary of the full pipeline (upcoming through done) with agent assignments, plus which agents are currently free, so that I can check project status without leaving chat.
-
-## Acceptance Criteria
-
-- [ ] Chat command "{bot_name} status" triggers a pipeline status display (bot name comes from display_name in bot.toml)
-- [ ] Output shows all stages: upcoming, current, qa, merge, done — with story names and IDs
-- [ ] Each active story shows its assigned agent name and model
-- [ ] Output includes a section showing which agents are free (not currently assigned to any story)
-- [ ] Response is formatted for readability in Matrix (monospace or markdown as appropriate)
-- [ ] Command is handled at the bot level — does not require a full Claude invocation
-
-## Out of Scope
-
-- TBD
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-# Story 285: Matrix bot help command lists available bot commands
-
-## User Story
-
-As a user in a Matrix room, I want to type "{bot_name} help" and get a list of all available bot commands with brief descriptions, so that I can discover what the bot can do without having to ask or remember.
-
-## Acceptance Criteria
-
-- [ ] Chat command "{bot_name} help" displays a list of all available bot-level commands (bot name comes from display_name in bot.toml)
-- [ ] Each command is shown with a short description of what it does
-- [ ] Help output is formatted for readability in Matrix
-- [ ] Help command is handled at the bot level — does not require a full Claude invocation
-- [ ] Help list automatically includes new commands as they are added (driven by a registry or similar, not a hardcoded string)
-
-## Out of Scope
-
-- TBD
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-# Story 273: Matrix bot sends typing indicator while waiting for Claude response
-
-## User Story
-
-As a user chatting with the Matrix bot, I want to see a typing indicator in Element while the bot is processing my message, so that I know it received my request and is working on a response.
-
-## Acceptance Criteria
-
-- [ ] Bot sets m.typing on the room as soon as it starts the Claude API call
-- [ ] Typing indicator is cleared when the first response chunk is sent to the room
-- [ ] Typing indicator is cleared on error so it doesn't get stuck
-- [ ] No visible delay between sending a message and seeing the typing indicator
-
-## Out of Scope
-
-- TBD
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+name: "Matrix bot ambient mode toggle via chat command"
+---
+
+# Story 282: Matrix bot ambient mode toggle via chat command
+
+## User Story
+
+As a user chatting with Timmy in a Matrix room, I want to toggle between "addressed mode" (bot only responds when mentioned by name) and "ambient mode" (bot responds to all messages) via a chat command, so that I don't have to @-mention the bot on every message when I'm the only one around.
+
+## Acceptance Criteria
+
+- [ ] Matrix bot defaults to addressed mode — only forwards messages containing the bot's name to Claude
+- [ ] Chat command "{bot_name} ambient on" switches to ambient mode — bot forwards all room messages to Claude (bot name comes from display_name in bot.toml)
+- [ ] Chat command "{bot_name} ambient off" switches back to addressed mode
+- [ ] Mode is persisted per-room in bot.toml so it survives bot restarts
+- [ ] bot.toml.example includes the ambient_mode setting with a comment explaining it
+- [ ] Bot confirms the mode switch with a short response in chat
+- [ ] When other users join or are active, user can flip back to addressed mode to avoid noise
+- [ ] Ambient mode applies per-room (not globally across all rooms)
+
+## Out of Scope
+
+- TBD