Comments overview

Comments and chats are how teams converse inside Blue. A single, polymorphic Comment attaches to a record (a Todo), a project chat, or a status update via a category + categoryId pair — so the same createComment / editComment / deleteComment mutations and the commentList query cover every comment surface. Chats are standalone, project-scoped conversation threads with their own create/update/delete mutations and queries. This section also covers emoji reactions on comments and the real-time subscriptions (new comments, typing indicators, chat changes) that power live collaboration.

The polymorphic comment model

There is one Comment type and one set of comment mutations. A comment doesn’t have a separate “todo comment” or “chat comment” type — instead, every comment names its target with two fields:

category — a CommentCategory enum: TODO, DISCUSSION, or STATUS_UPDATE.
categoryId — the ID of the target. Its meaning depends on the category: the record (Todo) ID for TODO, the Chat ID for DISCUSSION, or the StatusUpdate ID for STATUS_UPDATE.

Together they answer “what is this comment attached to?”. You pass the same pair to write a comment (createComment) and to read a target’s comments (commentList). Once you understand this targeting, the rest of the section is just the same operations applied to three surfaces.

# A comment on a record, a chat, and a status update —
# same mutation, only category + categoryId differ.
mutation CommentOnRecord {
  createComment(
    input: { category: TODO, categoryId: "todo_123", html: "<p>On it.</p>", text: "On it." }
  ) {
    id
  }
}

The Comment type

Comment is the shape returned by createComment, editComment, and every element of CommentList.comments.

Field	Type	Description
`id`	`ID!`	Unique identifier for the comment.
`uid`	`String!`	Short reference identifier.
`html`	`String!`	The comment body as sanitized HTML. Blanked to `""` when the comment is soft-deleted.
`text`	`String!`	The comment body as plain text. Blanked to `""` when the comment is soft-deleted.
`category`	`CommentCategory!`	Which surface this comment belongs to: `TODO`, `DISCUSSION`, or `STATUS_UPDATE`.
`createdAt`	`DateTime!`	When the comment was created.
`updatedAt`	`DateTime!`	When the comment was last edited.
`deletedAt`	`DateTime`	When the comment was soft-deleted, or `null` if it is still live. The row is kept even after deletion.
`deletedBy`	`User`	The user who soft-deleted the comment, or `null`.
`user`	`User!`	The author. Select `id`, `fullName`, `email`.
`activity`	`Activity`	The activity-feed entry this comment generated, if any.
`todo`	`Todo`	The parent record, when `category` is `TODO`; otherwise `null`.
`chat`	`Chat`	The parent chat, when `category` is `DISCUSSION`; otherwise `null`.
`statusUpdate`	`StatusUpdate`	The parent status update, when `category` is `STATUS_UPDATE`; otherwise `null`.
`isRead`	`Boolean`	Whether the calling user has read this comment.
`isSeen`	`Boolean`	Whether the calling user has seen this comment in the feed.
`aiSummary`	`Boolean`	Whether the comment was generated as an AI summary.
`parentId`	`String`	The ID of the comment this one replies to, or `null` for a top-level comment.
`parent`	`Comment`	The parent comment when this is a threaded reply; `null` for top-level comments.
`replies`	`[Comment!]!`	Direct replies to this comment.
`replyCount`	`Int!`	Number of direct replies.
`reactions`	`[ReactionGroup!]!`	Emoji reactions on this comment, grouped by emoji. See Reactions.
`files`	`[File!]`	Files attached to the comment.

Threaded replies

Comments thread one level deep. A reply is an ordinary comment created with a parentId pointing at the comment it answers; from the parent’s side you read replies and replyCount. Top-level comments have parentId: null. The commentList query returns only top-level comments — fetch a thread’s replies through the replies field on each comment.

Read state and soft deletion

isRead and isSeen are evaluated per calling user, so the same comment can come back read for one member and unread for another. Deletion is a soft delete: deleteComment blanks html/text and stamps deletedAt + deletedBy rather than removing the row, which keeps reply chains and thread structure intact.

The CommentList type

CommentList is returned by the commentList query — a page of top-level comments for one target, plus pagination metadata.

Field	Type	Description
`comments`	`[Comment!]!`	The top-level comments on this page.
`pageInfo`	`PageInfo!`	Cursor/offset pagination metadata for the result.
`totalCount`	`Int!`	Total number of top-level comments matching the query.

The CommentCategory enum

CommentCategory is the discriminator that makes the comment model polymorphic. Its value pairs with categoryId to identify the comment’s target.

Value	`categoryId` refers to	Surface
`TODO`	a `Todo` (record) ID	A comment on a record. See Records › Add a comment.
`DISCUSSION`	a `Chat` ID	A reply inside a project chat.
`STATUS_UPDATE`	a `StatusUpdate` ID	A comment on a status update.

Pages in this section

Page	What it covers
Create, edit & delete comments	`createComment`, `editComment`, and the soft-delete `deleteComment` — the write lifecycle on any surface, with mentions and permissions.
Query comments	The `commentList` query: scope to a record, chat, or status update with `category` + `categoryId`, paginate, and order results.
Create, update & delete chats	`createChat`, `updateChat` (title only), and the hard-delete `deleteChat` for project-scoped threads.
Query chats	The three read paths: `chat(id)`, the offset-paginated `chats`, and the project-scoped cursor list `chatList`.
Reactions	`addReaction` / `removeReaction` for emoji reactions on a comment, returning the full `[ReactionGroup!]!` set.

Live updates for comments and chats — new comments, typing indicators, and chat changes — are documented with the rest of the real-time API in Comments, Chats & Chat subscriptions.

Product nouns to schema types

Use the UI word in prose and the schema name in code. The mapping for this section:

UI / docs word	Schema type / field
Comment	`Comment`
Chat	`Chat`
Status update	`StatusUpdate`
Record	`Todo`
Workspace / Project	`Project`
Comment target kind	`CommentCategory` + `categoryId`
Reaction (grouped)	`ReactionGroup`

Create, edit & delete comments
Query comments
Create, update & delete chats
Reactions
Add a comment to a record
Comments, Chats & Chat subscriptions
Inbox & Messaging overview — the unified feed that surfaces record comments, workspace chats, and direct messages/group chats together.