discli

Rohit Kushwaha built discli because he got tired of the same old boilerplate-heavy Discord bot frameworks. One binary. Any language. Zero boilerplate. That's the pitch, and it actually delivers. discli is an MIT-licensed open source CLI tool that turns Discord into an agent-ready platform—your AI model receives events on stdout and sends actions on stdin through a clean JSONL protocol. No wrappers, no dependencies, just pure stdin/stdout action.

What makes discli actually interesting is the philosophy: every Discord action is a single CLI command. You can pipe into jq, chain with &&, or run from cron. Events flow out as JSON lines—messages, reactions, member joins, slash commands. Actions flow in the same way. It's terminal-native in a way that most "CLI tools" only pretend to be. Security is baked in with permission profiles, audit logs, and rate limiting built-in.

The quick start takes 15 lines of Python to go from zero to a working agent that echoes messages. You can build AI support agents with Claude or GPT, moderation bots that auto-detect spam, thread-based support systems, or channel loggers. It's minimal, it's open source, and it's exactly the kind of tool that makes you wonder why no one built this before.