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Behavioral bot detection for Discord. Catches automated accounts by how they act, never by what they say.

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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 works

Each 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
What never leaves your server
  • Message content
  • Raw Discord user IDs
  • DMs, voice audio, usernames, emails, IPs
Setup (2 steps, ~5 min)
  1. Click Add to Discord and authorize Gait for your server.
  2. 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)
Permissions Gait asks for
  • 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
Feedback loop

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.

Privacy policy: https://usegait.dev/privacy
Terms of service: https://usegait.dev/terms
Website: https://usegait.dev

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