diff --git a/repository/gob/repository.gob b/repository/gob/repository.gob
index 5fe1e10..8337ab5 100644
Binary files a/repository/gob/repository.gob and b/repository/gob/repository.gob differ
diff --git a/repository/main.go b/repository/main.go
index 12285be..2982512 100644
--- a/repository/main.go
+++ b/repository/main.go
@@ -114,6 +114,23 @@ var Main = Packages{
 				AsserterMethod{ChildType: "Codeblocker"},
 				AsserterMethod{ChildType: "Quoteblocker"},
 			},
+		}, {
+			Comment: Comment{`
+				MessageReferencer is similar to Linker, except it references a
+				message instead of an arbitrary URL. As such, its appearance may
+				be formatted similarly to a link, but this is up to the frontend
+				to decide. When clicked, the frontend should scroll to the
+				message with the ID returned by MessageID() and highlight it,
+				though this is also for appearance, so the frontend may decide
+				in detail how to display it.
+			`},
+			Name: "MessageReferencer",
+			Methods: []Method{
+				GetterMethod{
+					method:  method{Name: "MessageID"},
+					Returns: []NamedType{{Type: "cchat.ID"}},
+				},
+			},
 		}, {
 			Comment: Comment{`
 				Linker is a hyperlink format that a segment could implement.
diff --git a/text/text.go b/text/text.go
index 213d373..816062b 100644
--- a/text/text.go
+++ b/text/text.go
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@
 // shouldn't be.
 package text
 
+import cchat "cchat"
+
 // Attribute is the type for basic rich text markup attributes.
 type Attribute uint32
 
@@ -138,6 +140,16 @@ type Mentioner interface {
 	MentionInfo() Rich
 }
 
+// MessageReferencer is similar to Linker, except it references a message
+// instead of an arbitrary URL. As such, its appearance may be formatted
+// similarly to a link, but this is up to the frontend to decide. When clicked,
+// the frontend should scroll to the message with the ID returned by MessageID()
+// and highlight it, though this is also for appearance, so the frontend may
+// decide in detail how to display it.
+type MessageReferencer interface {
+	MessageID() cchat.ID
+}
+
 // Quoteblocker represents a quoteblock that behaves similarly to the blockquote
 // HTML tag. The quoteblock may be represented typically by an actaul quoteblock
 // or with green arrows prepended to each line.