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What is Effect Discord Bot?

The Effect Discord Bot is a purpose-built community bot for the Effect-TS Discord server. It automates common community tasks, provides AI-powered assistance, and integrates deeply with the Effect ecosystem. The bot is itself built entirely with Effect, making it a real-world demonstration of Effect patterns including structured concurrency, dependency injection via Layer, typed errors, caching, and OpenTelemetry tracing.

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Key features

AI Assistance

GPT-powered responses with live access to the Effect repository for accurate, up-to-date answers

Auto Threads

Automatically create threads for messages in configured channels with AI-generated titles

Docs Lookup

Fuzzy-search documentation for any Effect module or function directly in Discord

GitHub Integration

Convert Discord threads into GitHub issues with AI-generated summaries

Thread Summarizer

Export thread conversations as structured markdown summaries

Reminders

Schedule recurring channel reminders using cron expressions in channel topics

Notifications

Let members self-select notification roles via an interactive UI

Playground Links

Generate Effect Playground links from code snippets in messages

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Built with Effect

Every feature in this bot uses Effect’s core primitives:
main.ts
import { NodeRuntime } from "@effect/platform-node"
import { Layer } from "effect"
import { AiResponse } from "./AiResponse.ts"
import { AutoThreadsLive } from "./AutoThreads.ts"
import { DocsLookupLive } from "./DocsLookup.ts"
// ... additional features

const MainLive = Layer.mergeAll(
  AiResponse,
  AutoThreadsLive,
  DocsLookupLive,
  IssueifierLive,
  NotificationsLayer,
  PlaygroundLive,
  RemindersLive,
  ReproRequesterLive,
  Summarizer.layer,
).pipe(Layer.provide(TracerLayer("discord-bot")), Layer.provide(LogLevelLive))

NodeRuntime.runMain(Layer.launch(MainLive))

Architecture

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Effect Patterns

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