Introduction

To put it simply, Seabird is an overengineered chat framework. It comes with a broker service, chat backends, and plugins. The goal is to provide a unified interface for linking channels together and interacting with messages.

History

The first version of Seabird was an IRC bot written to learn Go. It has since been rewritten countless times and eventually turned into the project you see today.

What is Seabird?

These days, Seabird is a combination of seabird-core (an RPC service acting as a broker for other components), chat backends (which act as plumbing for hooking up a chat network like Discord), and plugins (which most closely resemble the original bot functionality).

What Should I Look At?

Looking to run a Seabird instance of your own? Check out the Administrator Guide, probably starting with dependencies.

Hoping to contribute or write a plugin? Check out the Developer Guide, starting with the contributing page.