The message editor

Welcome messages, ticket panels, verification panels, giveaway announcements, log embeds, suggestion cards, alert posts, reminders, tags — anything Arclo says out loud is written in the same editor. Learn it once.

Plain message or embed

Every editor can produce either. Which one you should reach for is not a style question:

• Plain message — text, mentions, emoji, and a normal-looking message. Mentions in a plain message ping, which is often the point. Tags and sticky messages default to this.
• Embed — a bordered card with a title, description, fields, images, an author line, a footer and a color. Everything Arclo announces defaults to this.
• Components V2 — Discord's newer layout: containers, sections, separators and media, with components arranged inside the card rather than under it. Used by verification panels, ticket panels and the Information Channel, where an embed cannot express the layout.

What you can set

Title & description

The description is the body of the message and takes markdown, line breaks, emoji and placeholders.

Color

The left-hand stripe. Leaving it on Arclo's built-in light blue means no color was chosen, and it is replaced at send time by your server's default embed color if you set one — see Server defaults.

Author

A small line above the title, with an optional icon. {avatar} and {server_icon} are the usual icon values.

Fields

Named blocks under the description, optionally side by side.

Image & thumbnail

A large image at the bottom, and a small one top-right. Upload your own or point at a generated banner.

Footer & timestamp

The bottom line, with an optional icon and an optional live timestamp.

Buttons

Link buttons open a URL. Response buttons reply with a message you wrote. Both come with the usual five Discord styles.

Dropdown

A select menu whose options each carry their own response.

The preview is the message

The panel beside the editor is not an approximation. It is drawn from the same payload builder the bot sends with, so if the preview shows a color, a line break or a truncated field, that is what Discord shows. Sample values fill placeholders so you can judge the length of the real thing rather than of {username}.

Custom command replies

Commands are edited in the same way, with one important property: the editor contains the real text Arclo sends, not a description of it.

• The default design in the editor is the exact sentence the bot replies with today, with the variable pieces as named placeholders.
• Editing it replaces that reply outright. Nothing hidden is appended underneath, so the editor never lies about the message.
• Commands with more than one failure mode expose an Error variants row — one numbered pill per outcome, each with its own editable text — so “that member outranks you” and “that duration is too long” can read differently.
• Restore defaults on any editor puts the original text back.

Limits worth knowing