Gait detects bot and automated accounts on Discord by behavior — never by message content.
Most anti-bot tools rely on keyword filters or CAPTCHA gates. Gait takes a different approach: it scores every member 0.00–1.00 based on how they act, then alerts your mod channel when a score crosses your threshold. Message text is never read or stored.
How it worksEach account gets a trust score from four behavioral dimensions:
- Temporal (35%) — burst regularity, reply-latency consistency, typing-ratio variance. Bots run on clocks; humans don’t.
- Content (25%) — message-length variance and edit rate. Length only — the text itself is discarded after measurement.
- Lifecycle (25%) — account age at join, username entropy, avatar presence.
- Social (Phase 2) — cross-server clustering, currently neutral.
A minimum of 50 events is required before any account is scored, so brand-new members aren’t auto-flagged.
What gets sent off your server- Anonymized user IDs (HMAC-SHA-256, two-stage salted — irreversible)
- Event type (message_create, guild_join, etc.), message length, edit flag
- Account age, avatar presence, username entropy
- Message content
- Raw Discord user IDs
- DMs, voice audio, usernames, emails, IPs
- Click Add to Discord and authorize Gait for your server.
- Run
/gait setchannel #your-mod-channel— Gait posts a test alert to confirm.
That’s it. No dashboard, no API keys, no account.
Slash commands/gait setchannel— set the alert channel/gait settings threshold:0.35— adjust the alert threshold (default 0.45)/gait mode auto— auto-kick confirmed bots instead of alerting only/gait status @user— check the current trust score for any member/gait whitelist @user— permanently mark an account as human/gait suspects— list the top suspect accounts/gait my-data— let a member request their own data (GDPR)/gait forget-me— let a member request deletion (GDPR)
- Server Members (privileged) — to receive join/leave events for account-age and join-velocity signals
- Message Content (privileged) — to measure message length only; text is discarded after measurement
- Presence (privileged) — to observe online→idle→offline transitions for clockwork-presence detection
- Send Messages + Embed Links — to post alerts in your configured channel
- View Channels — to observe events in channels visible to the bot’s role
Every alert ships with one-tap Confirm bot / False positive / Restrict / Whitelist buttons. Admin clicks become training labels — Gait gets sharper with use, across every server running it.
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