KIRBot — Keepin it real since 2023

A Discord bot for quote-editing messages and tracking karma-style scores for phrases and people.

Local Development

1. Install Node.js
2. Clone this repo and install dependencies:

   npm ci

3. Create a .env file in the project root:

   TOKEN=your_discord_bot_token_here
   ALLOW_CONFIG_DUMP=true
   DREAD_INACTIVITY_HOURS=0.01  # optional: set low to test the existential dread feature

4. Start the bot (auto-restarts on file changes):

   npm start

5. Run the test suite:

   npm test

See CLAUDE.md for a full description of commands, architecture, and environment variables.

Contributing

• Open a PR against main
• Ping steel to deploy to the prod bot server