diff --git a/plugins/chat/assets/javascripts/discourse/components/chat-message-actions-desktop.hbs b/plugins/chat/assets/javascripts/discourse/components/chat-message-actions-desktop.hbs
index 99be83b02d1..4ad120c431f 100644
--- a/plugins/chat/assets/javascripts/discourse/components/chat-message-actions-desktop.hbs
+++ b/plugins/chat/assets/javascripts/discourse/components/chat-message-actions-desktop.hbs
@@ -10,7 +10,15 @@
     }}
     data-id={{this.message.id}}
   >
-    <div class="chat-message-actions">
+    <div
+      class={{concat-class
+        "chat-message-actions"
+        (unless
+          this.messageInteractor.secondaryActions.length
+          "has-no-secondary-actions"
+        )
+      }}
+    >
       {{#if this.shouldRenderFavoriteReactions}}
         {{#each
           this.messageInteractor.emojiReactions
@@ -57,14 +65,14 @@
       {{#if
         (and
           this.messageInteractor.message
-          this.messageInteractor.secondaryButtons.length
+          this.messageInteractor.secondaryActions.length
         )
       }}
         <DropdownSelectBox
-          @class="more-buttons"
+          @class="more-buttons secondary-actions"
           @options={{hash icon="ellipsis-v" placement="left"}}
-          @content={{this.messageInteractor.secondaryButtons}}
-          @onChange={{action this.messageInteractor.handleSecondaryButtons}}
+          @content={{this.messageInteractor.secondaryActions}}
+          @onChange={{action this.messageInteractor.handleSecondaryActions}}
         />
       {{/if}}
     </div>
diff --git a/plugins/chat/assets/javascripts/discourse/components/chat-message-actions-desktop.js b/plugins/chat/assets/javascripts/discourse/components/chat-message-actions-desktop.js
index 7461fbbdf5f..45454acbe13 100644
--- a/plugins/chat/assets/javascripts/discourse/components/chat-message-actions-desktop.js
+++ b/plugins/chat/assets/javascripts/discourse/components/chat-message-actions-desktop.js
@@ -31,12 +31,10 @@ export default class ChatMessageActionsDesktop extends Component {
   }
 
   get messageInteractor() {
-    const activeMessage = this.chat.activeMessage;
-
     return new ChatMessageInteractor(
       getOwner(this),
-      activeMessage.model,
-      activeMessage.context
+      this.message,
+      this.context
     );
   }
 
diff --git a/plugins/chat/assets/javascripts/discourse/components/chat-message-actions-mobile.hbs b/plugins/chat/assets/javascripts/discourse/components/chat-message-actions-mobile.hbs
index 8b15d1e73f3..d61d03ef8fe 100644
--- a/plugins/chat/assets/javascripts/discourse/components/chat-message-actions-mobile.hbs
+++ b/plugins/chat/assets/javascripts/discourse/components/chat-message-actions-mobile.hbs
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
       </div>
 
       <ul class="secondary-actions">
-        {{#each this.messageInteractor.secondaryButtons as |button|}}
+        {{#each this.messageInteractor.secondaryActions as |button|}}
           <li class="chat-message-action-item" data-id={{button.id}}>
             <DButton
               @class="chat-message-action"
diff --git a/plugins/chat/assets/javascripts/discourse/components/chat-message-actions-mobile.js b/plugins/chat/assets/javascripts/discourse/components/chat-message-actions-mobile.js
index 064954cd44b..5f5db9660ee 100644
--- a/plugins/chat/assets/javascripts/discourse/components/chat-message-actions-mobile.js
+++ b/plugins/chat/assets/javascripts/discourse/components/chat-message-actions-mobile.js
@@ -21,13 +21,15 @@ export default class ChatMessageActionsMobile extends Component {
     return this.chat.activeMessage.model;
   }
 
-  get messageInteractor() {
-    const activeMessage = this.chat.activeMessage;
+  get context() {
+    return this.chat.activeMessage.context;
+  }
 
+  get messageInteractor() {
     return new ChatMessageInteractor(
       getOwner(this),
-      activeMessage.model,
-      activeMessage.context
+      this.message,
+      this.context
     );
   }
 
diff --git a/plugins/chat/assets/javascripts/discourse/lib/chat-message-interactor.js b/plugins/chat/assets/javascripts/discourse/lib/chat-message-interactor.js
index fb6de3f4d35..9276cef9536 100644
--- a/plugins/chat/assets/javascripts/discourse/lib/chat-message-interactor.js
+++ b/plugins/chat/assets/javascripts/discourse/lib/chat-message-interactor.js
@@ -18,6 +18,16 @@ import ChatMessage from "discourse/plugins/chat/discourse/models/chat-message";
 import { MESSAGE_CONTEXT_THREAD } from "discourse/plugins/chat/discourse/components/chat-message";
 import I18n from "I18n";
 
+const removedSecondaryActions = new Set();
+
+export function removeChatComposerSecondaryActions(actionIds) {
+  actionIds.forEach((id) => removedSecondaryActions.add(id));
+}
+
+export function resetRemovedChatComposerSecondaryActions() {
+  removedSecondaryActions.clear();
+}
+
 export default class ChatMessageInteractor {
   @service appEvents;
   @service dialog;
@@ -147,7 +157,7 @@ export default class ChatMessageInteractor {
       : this.chatChannelComposer;
   }
 
-  get secondaryButtons() {
+  get secondaryActions() {
     const buttons = [];
 
     buttons.push({
@@ -204,7 +214,7 @@ export default class ChatMessageInteractor {
       });
     }
 
-    return buttons;
+    return buttons.reject((button) => removedSecondaryActions.has(button.id));
   }
 
   select(checked = true) {
@@ -377,7 +387,7 @@ export default class ChatMessageInteractor {
   }
 
   @action
-  handleSecondaryButtons(id) {
+  handleSecondaryActions(id) {
     this[id](this.message);
   }
 }
diff --git a/plugins/chat/assets/javascripts/discourse/pre-initializers/chat-plugin-api.js b/plugins/chat/assets/javascripts/discourse/pre-initializers/chat-plugin-api.js
index fcd0d26abbf..6b977a398b8 100644
--- a/plugins/chat/assets/javascripts/discourse/pre-initializers/chat-plugin-api.js
+++ b/plugins/chat/assets/javascripts/discourse/pre-initializers/chat-plugin-api.js
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import {
 } from "discourse/plugins/chat/discourse/components/chat-message";
 import { registerChatComposerButton } from "discourse/plugins/chat/discourse/lib/chat-composer-buttons";
 import { addChatDrawerStateCallback } from "discourse/plugins/chat/discourse/services/chat-state-manager";
+import { removeChatComposerSecondaryActions } from "discourse/plugins/chat/discourse/lib/chat-message-interactor";
 
 /**
  * Class exposing the javascript API available to plugins and themes.
@@ -111,6 +112,18 @@ import { addChatDrawerStateCallback } from "discourse/plugins/chat/discourse/ser
  * );
  */
 
+/**
+ * Removes secondary actions from the chat composer
+ *
+ * @memberof PluginApi
+ * @instance
+ * @function removeChatComposerSecondaryActions
+ * @param {...string} [1] - List of secondary action ids to remove, eg: `"copyLink", "select"
+ * @example
+ *
+ * api.removeChatComposerSecondaryActions("copyLink", "select");
+ */
+
 export default {
   name: "chat-plugin-api",
   after: "inject-discourse-objects",
@@ -156,6 +169,18 @@ export default {
           },
         });
       }
+
+      if (!apiPrototype.hasOwnProperty("removeChatComposerSecondaryActions")) {
+        Object.defineProperty(
+          apiPrototype,
+          "removeChatComposerSecondaryActions",
+          {
+            value(...actionIds) {
+              removeChatComposerSecondaryActions(actionIds);
+            },
+          }
+        );
+      }
     });
   },
 
diff --git a/plugins/chat/assets/stylesheets/common/chat-message-actions.scss b/plugins/chat/assets/stylesheets/common/chat-message-actions.scss
index 53d6a24132a..6606c6902da 100644
--- a/plugins/chat/assets/stylesheets/common/chat-message-actions.scss
+++ b/plugins/chat/assets/stylesheets/common/chat-message-actions.scss
@@ -76,6 +76,15 @@
     }
   }
 
+  &.has-no-secondary-actions {
+    .reply-btn {
+      border-right: 1px solid var(--primary-300);
+      border-top: 1px solid var(--primary-300);
+      border-bottom: 1px solid var(--primary-300);
+      border-radius: 0 0.25em 0.25em 0;
+    }
+  }
+
   .more-buttons.dropdown-select-box {
     .select-kit-header {
       background: none;
diff --git a/plugins/chat/test/javascripts/unit/utility/plugin-api-test.js b/plugins/chat/test/javascripts/unit/utility/plugin-api-test.js
index 7de4ef09674..5abcd77d5d2 100644
--- a/plugins/chat/test/javascripts/unit/utility/plugin-api-test.js
+++ b/plugins/chat/test/javascripts/unit/utility/plugin-api-test.js
@@ -1,7 +1,14 @@
-import { module, test } from "qunit";
-import { withPluginApi } from "discourse/lib/plugin-api";
 import { setupTest } from "ember-qunit";
+import { module, test } from "qunit";
+import { getOwner } from "discourse-common/lib/get-owner";
+import { withPluginApi } from "discourse/lib/plugin-api";
+import User from "discourse/models/user";
+import ChatMessageInteractor, {
+  resetRemovedChatComposerSecondaryActions,
+} from "discourse/plugins/chat/discourse/lib/chat-message-interactor";
+import fabricators from "discourse/plugins/chat/discourse/lib/fabricators";
 import pretender from "discourse/tests/helpers/create-pretender";
+import { logIn } from "discourse/tests/helpers/qunit-helpers";
 
 module("Chat | Unit | Utility | plugin-api", function (hooks) {
   setupTest(hooks);
@@ -20,4 +27,52 @@ module("Chat | Unit | Utility | plugin-api", function (hooks) {
       await api.sendChatMessage(1, { message: "hello", threadId: 2 });
     });
   });
+
+  test("#removeChatComposerSecondaryActions", async function (assert) {
+    withPluginApi("1.1.0", async (api) => {
+      // assert that the api method is defined
+      assert.equal(typeof api.removeChatComposerSecondaryActions, "function");
+
+      logIn();
+      const currentUser = User.current();
+      getOwner(this).unregister("service:current-user");
+      getOwner(this).register("service:current-user", currentUser, {
+        instantiate: false,
+      });
+
+      const message = fabricators.message({ user: currentUser });
+      const context = "channel";
+      const interactor = new ChatMessageInteractor(
+        getOwner(this),
+        message,
+        context
+      );
+
+      // assert that the initial secondary actions are present
+      const secondaryActions = interactor.secondaryActions;
+      assert.ok(secondaryActions.length > 0);
+
+      try {
+        // remove the first secondary action listed
+        api.removeChatComposerSecondaryActions(secondaryActions[0].id);
+
+        const updatedSecondaryActions = interactor.secondaryActions;
+
+        // assert that the secondary action was removed
+        assert.ok(
+          updatedSecondaryActions.length < secondaryActions.length,
+          "the updated secondary actions must contain less items than the original"
+        );
+        assert.notOk(
+          updatedSecondaryActions
+            .map((v) => v.id)
+            .includes(secondaryActions[0]),
+          "the updated secondary actions must not include the removed action"
+        );
+      } finally {
+        // reset the secondary actions removed to prevent leakage to other tests
+        resetRemovedChatComposerSecondaryActions();
+      }
+    });
+  });
 });