cometchat-flutter-v6-core

Ground truth: cometchat_chat_uikit@6 (6.1.0) + cometchat_sdk@^5.0.6. Every CometChat* symbol here is in catalogs/flutter-v6.json — compiler-verified against the published package. Signatures marked [verified] were compiled because the docs were wrong, or (for initFromSettings) deliberately silent (DOCS-BACKLOG.md PART 4): trust this file for those, fetch the rest via references/docs-map.md. THIN map loaded every run; depth in references/*.

Use this skill when

"add chat to my Flutter app", "integrate CometChat in Flutter", "set up CometChat credentials", "show a conversations + messages screen". An unscoped "add chat" means a production-ready core surface — a CometChatConversations screen pushing a message screen, with threaded replies and search wired, in Scaffold/SafeArea, keyboard-safe, every screen popping back — NOT a two-widget demo, NOT the whole tab-based app (see the golden path). It grows on request → cometchat-flutter-v6-placement.

Install

flutter pub add cometchat_chat_uikit

Pin the major in pubspec.yaml — cometchat_chat_uikit: ^6.1.0 (a bare any can resolve across majors). The Chat SDK (cometchat_sdk) comes transitively and is re-exported by the kit barrel — do NOT add it separately unless you import SDK-only paths. Voice/video calling = a settings flag + native config (cometchat_calls_sdk is already a transitive kit dependency — see below) → cometchat-flutter-v6-calls.

Platform minimums — Android minSdk = 26 in android/app/build.gradle.kts; iOS platform :ios, '15.1' in ios/Podfile. The getting-started page says 24 / 13.0 and both are too low (DOCS-BACKLOG D7). The kit's own AAR allows 21, but transitive deps set the real floor and this one is not optional: cometchat_chat_uikit depends on cometchat_calls_sdk unconditionally — it sits in the main dependencies: block — and that package pins minSdkVersion 26 / platform :ios, '15.1' (5.0.7). Gradle and CocoaPods take the maximum across the graph, so a lower value is a build error whether or not the app uses calling.