#!/usr/bin/env bash # ask-forum.sh — ask a human a question in the #ct-forum Discord forum and BLOCK # until a person answers, then print their answer and exit. Built for a live # three-way: the user in the terminal, THIS Claude session, and a teammate (e.g. # Mike) in the forum — all the same session. The wait loop runs here in bash, so # the calling model pays for ONE tool call, not a polling loop. # # Usage: # ask-forum.sh "question text" [--title "short title"] [--timeout SEC] [--poll SEC] [--tag @id ...] # echo "question" | ask-forum.sh [flags] # ask-forum.sh --read [limit] # one-shot read, no wait # ask-forum.sh --wait [--timeout SEC] [--poll SEC] [--after ] # # Flow (ask): POST a forum post (thread) with the question, then poll that thread # for the first NON-BOT reply (human answer), print it, exit 0. # # Correlation is automatic: we create the thread and read only that thread. # Exit codes: 0 answered; 1 usage; 2 token missing; 3 Discord API error; 4 timeout. set -u export LC_ALL="${LC_ALL:-C.UTF-8}" # count code points, not bytes, when slicing $CONTENT ROOT="${CLAUDETOOLS_ROOT:-$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/../.." && pwd)}" API="https://discord.com/api/v10" UA="ClaudeToolsBot (claudetools, 1.0)" FORUM_ID="1522960388432465950" # #ct-forum (private forum; Howard + bot + Mike) LIMIT_CHARS=1900 # Discord caps message content at 2000 TIMEOUT=600 POLL=8 TITLE="" TAGS=() MSG="" # --- token resolver (shared by read + wait + ask) --- resolve_token() { local t t="$(bash "$ROOT/.claude/scripts/vault.sh" get-field \ projects/discord-bot/bot-token.sops.yaml credentials.bot_token 2>/dev/null)" if [ -z "$t" ] || [ "$t" = "null" ]; then local env_file="$ROOT/projects/discord-bot/.env" [ -f "$env_file" ] && t="$(grep -iE '^[[:space:]]*DISCORD_TOKEN[[:space:]]*=' "$env_file" | head -1 | sed -E 's/^[^=]*=[[:space:]]*//; s/^["'"'"']//; s/["'"'"'][[:space:]]*$//')" fi printf '%s' "$t" } # trim a string to the last newline within it (keeps split chunks on line boundaries) trim_at_newline() { local s="$1" nl nl="${s%$'\n'*}" if [ "${#nl}" -lt "${#s}" ] && [ "${#nl}" -gt 0 ]; then printf '%s' "$nl"; else printf '%s' "$s"; fi } # clamp a read limit to Discord's valid 1..100 (guard huge values that overflow bash math) clamp_limit() { local n="$1" printf '%s' "$n" | grep -qE '^[0-9]+$' || { printf '25'; return; } [ "${#n}" -ge 4 ] && { printf '100'; return; } # >=1000 always exceeds 100 [ "$n" -lt 1 ] && n=1; [ "$n" -gt 100 ] && n=100 printf '%s' "$n" } # Given a non-array poll response body, decide what to do. Echoes: "retry" (transient/ # rate-limited — sleeps any retry_after first) or "bail:" (permanent Discord error). poll_disposition() { local body="$1" ra code ra="$(printf '%s' "$body" | jq -r '.retry_after // empty' 2>/dev/null)" if [ -n "$ra" ]; then # rate limited: honor Discord's back-off (ceil), then retry sleep "$(printf '%s\n' "$ra" | awk '{printf "%d", ($1==int($1)?$1:int($1)+1)}')" 2>/dev/null || sleep 2 printf 'retry'; return fi code="$(printf '%s' "$body" | jq -r '.code // empty' 2>/dev/null)" if [ -n "$code" ]; then printf 'bail:%s %s' "$code" "$(printf '%s' "$body" | jq -r '.message // ""')"; return; fi printf 'retry' # unrecognized/transient (network blip, empty body) } # emit the human (non-bot) replies from a messages array as ">>> user: text" lines emit_human() { printf '%s' "$1" | jq -r 'sort_by(.id)[] | select(.author.bot|not) | ">>> " + .author.username + ": " + ((.content//"")|gsub("\n";" "))' } # newest message id in an array (string/lexical max — snowflakes are monotonic; avoids jq number precision loss) newest_id() { printf '%s' "$1" | jq -r 'sort_by(.id)|.[-1].id // empty'; } # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- # --read: one-shot fetch of a thread's messages, no posting # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- if [ "${1:-}" = "--read" ]; then THREAD="${2:-}" [ -z "$THREAD" ] && { echo "[ERROR] usage: ask-forum.sh --read [limit]" >&2; exit 1; } LIMIT="$(clamp_limit "${3:-25}")" TOKEN="$(resolve_token)" { [ -z "$TOKEN" ] || [ "$TOKEN" = "null" ]; } && { echo "[ERROR] no Discord bot token" >&2; exit 2; } auth=(-H "Authorization: Bot ${TOKEN}" -H "User-Agent: ${UA}") MSGS="$(curl -s -m 20 "${auth[@]}" "$API/channels/${THREAD}/messages?limit=${LIMIT}")" printf '%s' "$MSGS" | jq -e 'type=="array"' >/dev/null 2>&1 || { echo "[ERROR] could not read thread ${THREAD}: $(printf '%s' "$MSGS" | head -c 160)" >&2; exit 3; } echo "[OK] thread ${THREAD} (oldest first; '>>>' = human, ' ' = bot):" printf '%s' "$MSGS" | jq -r 'sort_by(.id)[] | ((if (.author.bot // false) then " " else ">>> " end) + .author.username + ": " + ((.content // "")|gsub("\n";" ")))' exit 0 fi # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- # --wait: block on an EXISTING thread until a human replies, no posting # Baselines on the starter (thread id == starter message id for a forum post), # so a reply that already landed before --wait began is caught (not missed). # Override the baseline with --after to wait for replies strictly after # a specific message (use when resuming a thread whose earlier answer you already # consumed and you want only the NEXT reply). # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- if [ "${1:-}" = "--wait" ]; then THREAD="${2:-}"; shift 2 [ -z "$THREAD" ] && { echo "[ERROR] usage: ask-forum.sh --wait [--timeout SEC] [--poll SEC] [--after ]" >&2; exit 1; } AFTER="$THREAD" while [ "$#" -gt 0 ]; do case "$1" in --timeout) TIMEOUT="${2:-600}"; shift 2 ;; --poll) POLL="${2:-8}"; shift 2 ;; --after) AFTER="${2:-$THREAD}"; shift 2 ;; *) shift ;; esac done printf '%s' "$TIMEOUT" | grep -qE '^[0-9]+$' || TIMEOUT=600 printf '%s' "$POLL" | grep -qE '^[0-9]+$' || POLL=8 TOKEN="$(resolve_token)" { [ -z "$TOKEN" ] || [ "$TOKEN" = "null" ]; } && { echo "[ERROR] no Discord bot token" >&2; exit 2; } auth=(-H "Authorization: Bot ${TOKEN}" -H "User-Agent: ${UA}") echo "[INFO] waiting on thread ${THREAD} for a human reply (up to ${TIMEOUT}s)..." >&2 DEADLINE=$(( $(date +%s) + TIMEOUT )) while [ "$(date +%s)" -lt "$DEADLINE" ]; do MSGS="$(curl -s -m 20 "${auth[@]}" "$API/channels/${THREAD}/messages?after=${AFTER}&limit=100")" if ! printf '%s' "$MSGS" | jq -e 'type=="array"' >/dev/null 2>&1; then D="$(poll_disposition "$MSGS")" case "$D" in bail:*) echo "[ERROR] thread ${THREAD}: ${D#bail:}" >&2; exit 3 ;; esac sleep "$POLL"; continue fi HUMAN="$(emit_human "$MSGS")" if [ -n "$HUMAN" ]; then echo "[OK] answer received in thread ${THREAD}:"; printf '%s\n' "$HUMAN"; echo "THREAD_ID=${THREAD}"; exit 0 fi # all-bot batch: page forward so a reply beyond the 100-msg window isn't missed NID="$(newest_id "$MSGS")"; [ -n "$NID" ] && AFTER="$NID" sleep "$POLL" done echo "[TIMEOUT] no human reply on thread ${THREAD} within ${TIMEOUT}s" >&2 echo "THREAD_ID=${THREAD}" >&2 exit 4 fi # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- # ask mode (default): post a question and block for the first human reply # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- while [ "$#" -gt 0 ]; do case "$1" in --title) TITLE="${2:-}"; shift 2 ;; --timeout) TIMEOUT="${2:-600}"; shift 2 ;; --poll) POLL="${2:-8}"; shift 2 ;; --tag) TAGS+=("${2:-}"); shift 2 ;; -h|--help) sed -n '2,20p' "$0"; exit 1 ;; *) MSG="${MSG:+$MSG }$1"; shift ;; esac done if [ -z "$MSG" ] && [ ! -t 0 ]; then MSG="$(cat)"; fi if [ -z "$MSG" ]; then echo "[ERROR] no question given" >&2; exit 1; fi printf '%s' "$TIMEOUT" | grep -qE '^[0-9]+$' || TIMEOUT=600 printf '%s' "$POLL" | grep -qE '^[0-9]+$' || POLL=8 if [ -z "$TITLE" ]; then TITLE="$(printf '%s' "$MSG" | tr '\n' ' ' | cut -c1-60)" [ -z "$TITLE" ] && TITLE="Question" fi # prepend any @mentions so the tagged person gets pinged MENTION="" for t in "${TAGS[@]:-}"; do [ -z "$t" ] && continue id="${t#@}" printf '%s' "$id" | grep -qE '^[0-9]{17,19}$' && MENTION="${MENTION}<@${id}> " done CONTENT="${MENTION}${MSG}" TOKEN="$(resolve_token)" if [ -z "$TOKEN" ] || [ "$TOKEN" = "null" ]; then echo "[ERROR] no Discord bot token (vault + .env both empty)" >&2 bash "$ROOT/.claude/scripts/log-skill-error.sh" "ask-forum" "no Discord bot token" >/dev/null 2>&1 exit 2 fi auth=(-H "Authorization: Bot ${TOKEN}" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "User-Agent: ${UA}") # keep the forum starter <=1900 chars; any overflow goes out as follow-up messages STARTER_CONTENT="$CONTENT"; OVERFLOW="" if [ "${#CONTENT}" -gt "$LIMIT_CHARS" ]; then STARTER_CONTENT="$(trim_at_newline "${CONTENT:0:$LIMIT_CHARS}")" OVERFLOW="${CONTENT:${#STARTER_CONTENT}}"; OVERFLOW="${OVERFLOW#$'\n'}" fi # --- create the forum post (thread) with the question --- BODY="$(jq -nc --arg name "$TITLE" --arg c "$STARTER_CONTENT" '{name:$name, message:{content:$c}}')" RESP="$(printf '%s' "$BODY" | curl -s -m 20 -w $'\n%{http_code}' "${auth[@]}" \ -X POST "$API/channels/${FORUM_ID}/threads" --data-binary @-)" HTTP="$(printf '%s' "$RESP" | tail -n1)" JSON="$(printf '%s' "$RESP" | sed '$d')" if [ "$HTTP" != "201" ] && [ "$HTTP" != "200" ]; then echo "[ERROR] could not post forum question (HTTP ${HTTP:-none}): $(printf '%s' "$JSON" | head -c 200)" >&2 bash "$ROOT/.claude/scripts/log-skill-error.sh" "ask-forum" "forum post failed" --context "http=${HTTP:-none} resp=$(printf '%s' "$JSON" | head -c 80)" >/dev/null 2>&1 exit 3 fi THREAD="$(printf '%s' "$JSON" | jq -r '.id // empty')" STARTER="$(printf '%s' "$JSON" | jq -r '.message.id // empty')" if [ -z "$THREAD" ]; then echo "[ERROR] posted but no thread id in response: $(printf '%s' "$JSON" | head -c 200)" >&2 exit 3 fi # --- post any overflow chunks as follow-up messages (check each; warn if one fails) --- rest="$OVERFLOW" while [ -n "$rest" ]; do piece="$(trim_at_newline "${rest:0:$LIMIT_CHARS}")" fhttp="$(printf '%s' "$(jq -nc --arg c "$piece" '{content:$c}')" | \ curl -s -m 15 -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' "${auth[@]}" -X POST "$API/channels/${THREAD}/messages" --data-binary @-)" [ "$fhttp" != "200" ] && echo "[WARNING] overflow chunk failed (HTTP ${fhttp}) — question may be truncated in the forum" >&2 rest="${rest:${#piece}}"; rest="${rest#$'\n'}" done echo "[INFO] asked in #ct-forum (thread=${THREAD}) — waiting up to ${TIMEOUT}s for a human reply..." >&2 # --- block-poll the thread for the first NON-BOT reply --- AFTER="${STARTER:-$THREAD}" # starter id == thread id for a forum post DEADLINE=$(( $(date +%s) + TIMEOUT )) while [ "$(date +%s)" -lt "$DEADLINE" ]; do sleep "$POLL" MSGS="$(curl -s -m 20 "${auth[@]}" "$API/channels/${THREAD}/messages?after=${AFTER}&limit=100")" if ! printf '%s' "$MSGS" | jq -e 'type=="array"' >/dev/null 2>&1; then D="$(poll_disposition "$MSGS")" case "$D" in bail:*) echo "[ERROR] thread ${THREAD}: ${D#bail:}" >&2; exit 3 ;; esac continue fi HUMAN="$(emit_human "$MSGS")" if [ -n "$HUMAN" ]; then echo "[OK] answer received in thread ${THREAD}:"; printf '%s\n' "$HUMAN"; echo "THREAD_ID=${THREAD}"; exit 0 fi NID="$(newest_id "$MSGS")"; [ -n "$NID" ] && AFTER="$NID" # page forward past bot-only batches done echo "[TIMEOUT] no human reply within ${TIMEOUT}s. Thread stays open for a later read:" >&2 echo "THREAD_ID=${THREAD}" >&2 echo " re-read: bash .claude/scripts/ask-forum.sh --read ${THREAD} | resume wait: --wait ${THREAD}" >&2 exit 4