Chatting & Triggers

TomoriBot only responds when something tells her to. This page covers the ways she can be triggered, how to chat hands-free with auto-trigger, and how to stop accidental triggers with Deliberate Trigger Mode.

How to Trigger Her

By default, she replies when you:

Mention her — @TomoriBot
Reply to one of her messages (including a persona’s webhook message)
Use a trigger word — any plain word you’ve registered, said anywhere in a message
Use /bot respond — manually prompt a reply

Trigger words are the most convenient path: once a word is registered, simply naming it activates her. In a DM, just say hi — no trigger needed.

Managing Trigger Words

/server trigger add — add a custom trigger word (also works for alter personas, so a word can summon a specific character).
/server trigger remove — remove a trigger word.

Expressions & Reactions

Once she replies, she can use your server’s custom emojis and stickers, and react to messages:

Custom emojis are used naturally in conversation with case-insensitive :name: syntax.
Stickers can accompany replies; she can also add emoji reactions.
Run /server expressions initialize to register your server’s emojis and stickers so she uses them accurately.

Situational Awareness

Beyond the message text, she’s handed a snapshot of the Discord context every time she replies — so she can talk about where and when the conversation is happening, not just what was said. This context includes:

Where she is — the current server’s name and description (or that it’s a Direct Message), and the current channel.
The current time — the server’s local time and rough time of day, based on /server timezone, plus each person’s own local time if they’ve set /personal timezone.
Who’s in the conversation — participants’ display names, how to mention them, any physical-appearance tags, and their pending reminders.
What someone’s up to (presence) — a user’s Discord activity: what they’re playing, streaming, listening to (e.g. a Spotify track and artist), watching, or their custom status.

Presence is privacy-gated: it’s only shared for users at the Minimal privacy level (the default — see /personal privacy) and only when the bot has Discord’s Guild Presences intent enabled. Users who raise their privacy, or self-hosts running without that intent, simply won’t have their activity surfaced to her.

Auto-Trigger (Hands-Free Chatting)

Auto-trigger lets her join the conversation without being named at all.

/server autotrigger channels — set the channels where she responds without a mention.
/server autotrigger threshold — set how many messages accumulate before she chimes in.
~~/natres — humanlike timing for autonomous responses~~ to be implemented

Use this in a dedicated chat channel where you want her to feel like a participant rather than a summoned assistant.

Deliberate Trigger Mode

If people say a persona’s name a lot in ordinary conversation, plain trigger words can fire her by accident. Deliberate Trigger Mode (DTM) fixes this by making plain trigger words stop counting as an explicit trigger.

When DTM is on:

@{trigger} (the trigger word prefixed like a mention) still works
Discord mentions still work
Replies still work
/bot respond still works
Plain trigger words no longer trigger her

This forces deliberate invocation instead of accidental activation.

Server and Personal Control

/server dtm — server admins toggle the server-wide behavior.
/personal dtm — each user overrides it for themselves, with three modes:
- off — always allow plain trigger words
- follow — use the server setting
- on — always require deliberate invocation

Run /help deliberate-trigger-mode for the same summary in Discord.