I'm all in with the idea, if it can be implemented.
I tried something similar in response to a related discussion. Unfortunately, the _msgid may not be stable, so the solution is not really universal.
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Have you found a way around this? My example is not completely artificial, since for example, the core split node assigns all new id's to messages in the sequence it generates.
