How commands work

Arclo registers its commands with Discord globally, so they appear in every server it is in. What each one is allowed to do, and by whom, is decided per server on the dashboard.

Three kinds of command

• Slash commands — typed with /. Most have subcommands: /voice rename, /backup create, /counter social add.
• Message context commands — right-click a message → Apps. Report Message, Stick Message, Remind Me, Add Emojis.
• User context commands — right-click a member → Apps. Moderation History, Warn Member, Report Member.

Per-command settings

Every command can be configured from Command Info, or from the Commands section at the bottom of its own system's page. Both edit the same record.

Enabled

Switching a command off removes it from your server. Arclo registers each server's commands from its own settings, so a command you have switched off — or one belonging to a system you have not enabled — is not in the slash menu at all. Your settings are kept: switch it back on, or enable the system, and it returns within about a minute.

Role restrictions

Only members with one of the roles you name may run it. Empty means the command follows whatever Discord's own permissions allow.

Channel restrictions

Limit a command to specific channels — the usual home for /rank in a bot-commands channel.

Required Discord permissions

Require one or more real Discord permissions. All of them are needed, not any. Administrators and the server owner bypass this.

Cooldown

A per-member wait between uses. Applies to the command, not to the system.

Private response

The reply is visible only to whoever ran the command. Some commands default to this — /help and the lookup commands do.

Redirect output

Send the reply to a channel you choose instead of the one it was typed in, with a mention of whoever ran it. Handy for keeping long output out of chat. Private replies are never redirected — that would publish something meant to be private.

Custom replies

Rewrite what the command says. See the message editor.

Commands that ignore all of that

A handful of commands are administrator-only inside the handler, whatever the dashboard says — /backup load, the XP-editing commands and the reset verbs among them. Their permission controls are locked, and the page says so. A command that can destroy a server should not be one dropdown away from being handed to a role.

Bulk changes

The Command Info page has a Select multiple mode: pick any set of commands and enable, disable, edit settings or reset them in one go. Enable all / Disable all per system is a single button. Resetting a command deletes its settings row, which returns it to its defaults rather than to off.

If a command is not working

• It may be switched off, or restricted to a role you are not in — check Command Info.
• Its system may be off. A command belonging to a disabled system refuses politely.
• Discord may not have synced. Reload the client with Ctrl + R.
• The reply may be older than fifteen minutes. Buttons on Arclo's own posted messages last forever; components attached to a reply to your command stop responding after Discord's fifteen-minute editing window. Run it again.

The full list of commands is at Command reference.