SlackBotRedux

A bot that integrates with Slack via the RTM API.

Currently on hold until summer because Robert's finally back to making his bot not crap.

Roadmap (WIP)

Bot Infrastructure

• Connecting to Slack via RTM API
• Ping heartbeat
• Rate-limit output queue
• Sending and receiving different Slack messages
• Log everything (but censor anything said in private groups/DMs)
• Usable console proxy

Modules

Quotes

• remember command (remember stuff people say)
• quotes command (lists all quotes for a given user)

Variables

• Allow circular references
• Allow referencing of other variables, including the same variable
• Allow protection of variables
• Magic/special variables (such as $band, $tla, $item, $who, etc)
• add variable command
• remove variable command
• add value command
• remove value command
• list values command
• list vars command
• Variable types (noun, verb, var)

Factoids

• Allow referencing variables
• Allow protection of factoids
• Magic/special factoids (such as "don't know", "band name reply", etc)
• X <verb> Y command (including <action>)
• list factoids command (aka literal X)
• Triggering a specific factoid (aka X ~= /text here/)
• Substitution editing (aka X ~= s/text to replace/new text/)
• what was that command
• undo last command (only the one who made the last change can do this)
• alias command
• merge command
• delete command
• delete id command
• forget that command
• lookup command

Inventory

• various gives item command
• delete item command
• list items command

People

• Gender commands/variables
• Keeping track of recently speaking users
• Muting users/commands
• Permissions (op vs non-op)

Commands

• say command
• shut up command

TLAs

• Detecting TLAs

Config

• set/get commands
• Various configuration variables (band_name, band_var, etc)