diff --git a/lib/permissions/minimally-encoded-thread-permissions.js b/lib/permissions/minimally-encoded-thread-permissions.js
index a7ee37c86..b3dee9d7f 100644
--- a/lib/permissions/minimally-encoded-thread-permissions.js
+++ b/lib/permissions/minimally-encoded-thread-permissions.js
@@ -1,77 +1,129 @@
 // @flow
 
 import invariant from 'invariant';
 
+import { parseThreadPermissionString } from './prefixes.js';
 import type {
   ThreadPermission,
   ThreadPermissionsInfo,
 } from '../types/thread-permission-types.js';
 import { entries } from '../utils/objects.js';
 
-const minimallyEncodedThreadPermissions = Object.freeze({
+// `baseRolePermissionEncoding` maps permission names to indices.
+// These indices represent the 6-bit basePermission part of the 10-bit role
+// permission encoding created by `rolePermissionToBitmaskHex`.
+// The 6-bit basePermission allows for up to 2^6 = 64 different permissions.
+// If more than 64 permissions are needed, the encoding in
+// `rolePermissionToBitmaskHex` will need to be updated to accommodate this.
+const baseRolePermissionEncoding = Object.freeze({
   // TODO (atul): Update flow to `194.0.0` for bigint support
   // $FlowIssue bigint-unsupported
-  know_of: BigInt(1) << BigInt(0),
-  visible: BigInt(1) << BigInt(1),
-  voiced: BigInt(1) << BigInt(2),
-  edit_entries: BigInt(1) << BigInt(3),
-  edit_thread: BigInt(1) << BigInt(4), // EDIT_THREAD_NAME
-  edit_thread_description: BigInt(1) << BigInt(5),
-  edit_thread_color: BigInt(1) << BigInt(6),
-  delete_thread: BigInt(1) << BigInt(7),
-  create_subthreads: BigInt(1) << BigInt(8), // CREATE_SUBCHANNELS
-  create_sidebars: BigInt(1) << BigInt(9),
-  join_thread: BigInt(1) << BigInt(10),
-  edit_permissions: BigInt(1) << BigInt(11),
-  add_members: BigInt(1) << BigInt(12),
-  remove_members: BigInt(1) << BigInt(13),
-  change_role: BigInt(1) << BigInt(14),
-  leave_thread: BigInt(1) << BigInt(15),
-  react_to_message: BigInt(1) << BigInt(16),
-  edit_message: BigInt(1) << BigInt(17),
-  edit_thread_avatar: BigInt(1) << BigInt(18),
-  manage_pins: BigInt(1) << BigInt(19),
-  manage_invite_links: BigInt(1) << BigInt(20),
+  know_of: BigInt(0),
+  visible: BigInt(1),
+  voiced: BigInt(2),
+  edit_entries: BigInt(3),
+  edit_thread: BigInt(4), // EDIT_THREAD_NAME
+  edit_thread_description: BigInt(5),
+  edit_thread_color: BigInt(6),
+  delete_thread: BigInt(7),
+  create_subthreads: BigInt(8), // CREATE_SUBCHANNELS
+  create_sidebars: BigInt(9),
+  join_thread: BigInt(10),
+  edit_permissions: BigInt(11),
+  add_members: BigInt(12),
+  remove_members: BigInt(13),
+  change_role: BigInt(14),
+  leave_thread: BigInt(15),
+  react_to_message: BigInt(16),
+  edit_message: BigInt(17),
+  edit_thread_avatar: BigInt(18),
+  manage_pins: BigInt(19),
+  manage_invite_links: BigInt(20),
 });
 
+// `minimallyEncodedThreadPermissions` is used to map each permission
+// to its respective bitmask where the index from `baseRolePermissionEncoding`
+// is used to set a specific bit in the bitmask. This is used in the
+// `permissionsToBitmaskHex` function where each permission is represented as a
+// single bit and the final bitmask is the union of all granted permissions.
+const minimallyEncodedThreadPermissions = Object.fromEntries(
+  Object.keys(baseRolePermissionEncoding).map((key, idx) => [
+    key,
+    BigInt(1) << BigInt(idx),
+  ]),
+);
+
+// This function converts a set of permissions to a hex-encoded bitmask.
+// Each permission is represented as a single bit in the bitmask.
 const permissionsToBitmaskHex = (
   permissions: ThreadPermissionsInfo,
 ): string => {
   let bitmask = BigInt(0);
   for (const [key, permission] of entries(permissions)) {
     if (permission.value && key in minimallyEncodedThreadPermissions) {
       invariant(
         // TODO (atul): Update flow to `194.0.0` for bigint support
         // $FlowIssue illegal-typeof
         typeof minimallyEncodedThreadPermissions[key] === 'bigint',
         'must be bigint',
       );
       bitmask |= minimallyEncodedThreadPermissions[key];
     }
   }
   return bitmask.toString(16);
 };
 
 const hasPermission = (
   permissionsBitmaskHex: string,
   permission: ThreadPermission,
 ): boolean => {
   const permissionsBitmask = BigInt(`0x${permissionsBitmaskHex}`);
   if (!(permission in minimallyEncodedThreadPermissions)) {
     return false;
   }
   const permissionBitmask = minimallyEncodedThreadPermissions[permission];
   invariant(
     // TODO (atul): Update flow to `194.0.0` for bigint support
     // $FlowIssue illegal-typeof
     typeof permissionBitmask === 'bigint',
     'permissionBitmask must be of type bigint',
   );
   return (permissionsBitmask & permissionBitmask) !== BigInt(0);
 };
 
-export {
-  minimallyEncodedThreadPermissions,
-  permissionsToBitmaskHex,
-  hasPermission,
+const propagationPrefixes = Object.freeze({
+  '': BigInt(0),
+  'descendant_': BigInt(1),
+  'child_': BigInt(2),
+});
+const filterPrefixes = Object.freeze({
+  '': BigInt(0),
+  'open_': BigInt(1),
+  'toplevel_': BigInt(2),
+  'opentoplevel_': BigInt(3),
+});
+
+// Role Permission Bitmask Structure
+// [9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0] - bit positions
+// [b b b b b b p p f f] - symbol representation
+// b = basePermission    (6 bits)
+// p = propagationPrefix (2 bits)
+// f = filterPrefix      (2 bits)
+const rolePermissionToBitmaskHex = (threadRolePermission: string): string => {
+  const parsed = parseThreadPermissionString(threadRolePermission);
+  const basePermissionBits =
+    baseRolePermissionEncoding[parsed.permission] & BigInt(63);
+  const propagationPrefixBits =
+    propagationPrefixes[parsed.propagationPrefix ?? ''] & BigInt(3);
+  const filterPrefixBits =
+    filterPrefixes[parsed.filterPrefix ?? ''] & BigInt(3);
+
+  const bitmask =
+    (basePermissionBits << BigInt(4)) |
+    (propagationPrefixBits << BigInt(2)) |
+    filterPrefixBits;
+
+  return bitmask.toString(16).padStart(3, '0');
 };
+
+export { permissionsToBitmaskHex, hasPermission, rolePermissionToBitmaskHex };
diff --git a/lib/permissions/minimally-encoded-thread-permissions.test.js b/lib/permissions/minimally-encoded-thread-permissions.test.js
index 539e4dc2c..090c5c125 100644
--- a/lib/permissions/minimally-encoded-thread-permissions.test.js
+++ b/lib/permissions/minimally-encoded-thread-permissions.test.js
@@ -1,53 +1,90 @@
 // @flow
 
 import {
   hasPermission,
   permissionsToBitmaskHex,
+  rolePermissionToBitmaskHex,
 } from './minimally-encoded-thread-permissions.js';
 
 describe('minimallyEncodedThreadPermissions', () => {
   const permissions = {
     know_of: { value: true, source: '1' },
     visible: { value: true, source: '1' },
     voiced: { value: true, source: '1' },
     edit_entries: { value: true, source: '1' },
     edit_thread: { value: true, source: '1' },
     edit_thread_description: { value: true, source: '1' },
     edit_thread_color: { value: true, source: '1' },
     delete_thread: { value: true, source: '1' },
     create_subthreads: { value: true, source: '1' },
     create_sidebars: { value: true, source: '1' },
     join_thread: { value: false, source: null },
     edit_permissions: { value: false, source: null },
     add_members: { value: true, source: '1' },
     remove_members: { value: true, source: '1' },
     change_role: { value: true, source: '1' },
     leave_thread: { value: false, source: null },
     react_to_message: { value: true, source: '1' },
     edit_message: { value: true, source: '1' },
   };
 
   it('should encode ThreadPermissionsInfo as bitmask', () => {
     const permissionsBitmask = permissionsToBitmaskHex(permissions);
     expect(permissionsBitmask).toBe('373ff');
     expect(hasPermission(permissionsBitmask, 'know_of')).toBe(true);
     expect(hasPermission(permissionsBitmask, 'visible')).toBe(true);
     expect(hasPermission(permissionsBitmask, 'voiced')).toBe(true);
     expect(hasPermission(permissionsBitmask, 'edit_entries')).toBe(true);
     expect(hasPermission(permissionsBitmask, 'edit_thread')).toBe(true);
     expect(hasPermission(permissionsBitmask, 'edit_thread_description')).toBe(
       true,
     );
     expect(hasPermission(permissionsBitmask, 'edit_thread_color')).toBe(true);
     expect(hasPermission(permissionsBitmask, 'delete_thread')).toBe(true);
     expect(hasPermission(permissionsBitmask, 'create_subthreads')).toBe(true);
     expect(hasPermission(permissionsBitmask, 'create_sidebars')).toBe(true);
     expect(hasPermission(permissionsBitmask, 'join_thread')).toBe(false);
     expect(hasPermission(permissionsBitmask, 'edit_permissions')).toBe(false);
     expect(hasPermission(permissionsBitmask, 'remove_members')).toBe(true);
     expect(hasPermission(permissionsBitmask, 'change_role')).toBe(true);
     expect(hasPermission(permissionsBitmask, 'leave_thread')).toBe(false);
     expect(hasPermission(permissionsBitmask, 'react_to_message')).toBe(true);
     expect(hasPermission(permissionsBitmask, 'edit_message')).toBe(true);
   });
 });
+
+describe('rolePermissionToBitmaskHex', () => {
+  it('should encode `child_opentoplevel_visible` successfully', () => {
+    expect(rolePermissionToBitmaskHex('child_opentoplevel_visible')).toBe(
+      '01b',
+    );
+  });
+
+  it('should encode `child_opentoplevel_know_of` successfully', () => {
+    expect(rolePermissionToBitmaskHex('child_opentoplevel_know_of')).toBe(
+      '00b',
+    );
+  });
+
+  it('should encode `child_toplevel_visible` successfully', () => {
+    expect(rolePermissionToBitmaskHex('child_toplevel_visible')).toBe('01a');
+  });
+
+  it('should encode `child_toplevel_know_of` successfully', () => {
+    expect(rolePermissionToBitmaskHex('child_toplevel_know_of')).toBe('00a');
+  });
+
+  it('should encode `child_opentoplevel_join_thread` successfully', () => {
+    expect(rolePermissionToBitmaskHex('child_opentoplevel_join_thread')).toBe(
+      '0ab',
+    );
+  });
+
+  it('should encode `child_visible` successfully', () => {
+    expect(rolePermissionToBitmaskHex('child_visible')).toBe('018');
+  });
+
+  it('should encode `child_know_of` successfully', () => {
+    expect(rolePermissionToBitmaskHex('child_know_of')).toBe('008');
+  });
+});