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# Send lifecycle

# Send lifecycle

Providers

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Owns the whole dispatch and feedback loop as one lifecycle: provider setup, routing, the send handoff, delivery events, and ingestion of what comes back.
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- **Used when**
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— When a provider adapter, a send workflow, delivery-feedback processing or response ingestion is being built for a message channel.
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- **Loads first**
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- The communication-activity skill, for the lifecycle contract.
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- The shared engineering guidelines.
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- **Returns**
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- The provider and routing configuration.
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- The execution-artifact and send-payload schema.
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- The provider-correlation and status-persistence plan.
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- The event contract, where provider outcomes are consumed asynchronously.
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- The criteria that close an activity's lifecycle.
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- **Hands off**
- Audience selection — audience selection
- Template inventory — template management
- Channel assembly — runtime scoring

## Others in Providers

- File sync
- Marketing stack
- Roster workflow