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Mike Swanson dc5c09b40b sync: auto-sync from GURU-5070 at 2026-06-15 09:41:53
Author: Mike Swanson
Machine: GURU-5070
Timestamp: 2026-06-15 09:41:53
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discord-dm Send a Discord message to an org member's DMs or to a team channel via the ClaudeTools bot. Use this whenever you need to hand a person something copy-paste-friendly that the terminal would wrap or mangle — consent links, long single-line commands, URLs, tokens-to-rotate notices — or to ping someone directly. Prepopulated with every org member's user ID and the team channel IDs, so you address people by name (mike/howard/rob/winter) not raw snowflakes. Invoke on: "DM me/<person> in discord", "send <person> a discord message", "message <person> on discord", "discord DM", "send that link to my discord", "ping <person>". For one-line [SYNCRO]/[RMM] status alerts to the alert channels, prefer post-bot-alert.sh; use this for direct/person-targeted delivery.

discord-dm — direct Discord messaging to the org

Thin wrapper over the Discord bot API. The engine is .claude/scripts/discord-dm.sh; this doc is the usage contract.

When to use

  • Wrapped command lines — Mike's standing rule: any wrapped/long single-line output (M365 consent links, long CLI one-liners, URLs with query strings) gets DM'd to him in Discord so it's cleanly copy-pasteable, not mangled by terminal wrapping. Default target for that is mike.
  • Pinging a specific teammate with something actionable.
  • Posting to a team channel when you want to choose the channel explicitly (#bot-alerts / #dev-alerts).

For routine one-line [SYNCRO] / [RMM] status alerts, keep using post-bot-alert.sh (it auto-routes by prefix). This skill is for person-targeted DMs and deliberate channel posts.

Usage

bash .claude/scripts/discord-dm.sh <recipient> "message text"
echo "message text" | bash .claude/scripts/discord-dm.sh <recipient>
bash .claude/scripts/discord-dm.sh list          # print known users + channels

<recipient>:

Form Effect
mike howard rob winter opens/uses that user's DM channel
#bot-alerts / bot posts to #bot-alerts (whole team)
#dev-alerts / dev posts to #dev-alerts (Howard + Mike, private)
chan:<id> posts to an arbitrary channel by ID
<17-19 digit id> treated as a user DM

Prepopulated directory (from .claude/users.json + post-bot-alert.sh)

Name Discord user ID Channel ID
mike 264814939619721216 #bot-alerts 624710699771232265
howard 624667664501178379 #dev-alerts 1509998508198068484
rob 261978810713505792
winter 624666486362996755

Keep this table and the USERS/CHANNELS maps in the script in sync with .claude/users.json when people are added/removed.

Implementation notes / gotchas

  • Bot token resolves from the SOPS vault (projects/discord-bot/bot-token.sops.yaml field credentials.bot_token), falling back to projects/discord-bot/.env DISCORD_TOKEN. Works from any machine, not just BEAST.
  • DMs require opening the user's DM channel first (POST /users/@me/channels {recipient_id}) then posting to that channel id.
  • Multiline payloads: always build JSON with jq -nc --arg and feed curl via printf '%s' "$payload" | curl ... --data-binary @-. Passing the JSON directly with -d "$(...)" mangled multiline content and returned Discord error 50109 invalid JSON body (hit 2026-06-15 sending the CryoWeave consent link).
  • Not soft-fail: unlike post-bot-alert.sh, a send failure exits non-zero — a requested DM is load-bearing, so surface the error.
  • The bot must share a server with the user and the user must allow DMs from server members, or the DM-channel open / send can 403.