Claude Code How to use Discord Bot with Claude Code
You want Discord Bot inside Claude Code so it can triage unanswered Discord questions, summarize active Discord discussions, draft and publish team announcements, and moderate and organize Discord messages — without you copy-pasting between tabs. Here is the whole setup, once.
Create your Discord Bot gateway
The gateway is the thing Claude Code connects to, and it is where you decide which Discord Bot tools an agent may use. You create it once and every client reuses it.
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Create an Arcade account
Sign up and open the dashboard. The free tier is enough to follow this through.
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Create an MCP Gateway and select your Discord Bot tools
In the dashboard, create a gateway and pick the Discord Bot tools you want to expose. The gateway is what your client connects to, and it is where tool access is decided.
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Copy your gateway URL
Every client below needs it.
https://api.arcade.dev/mcp/<YOUR-GATEWAY-SLUG>
Connect the gateway to Claude Code
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Add the gateway as a remote HTTP MCP server
claude mcp add arcade --transport http "<YOUR_ARCADE_GATEWAY_URL>"
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Verify it was added
claude mcp get arcade claude mcp list
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Try it out
Open Claude Code in your project and ask it to use one of your Discord Bot tools.
Full Claude Code guide in the docs steps verified 2026-08-13
Get started with these Discord prompts
Claude Code can now act on your Discord Bot account. Click a prompt to copy it.
Use permissions to control whether an agent can post, pin, edit, or delete Discord messages. Pair it with Contextual Access policies so an agent can search conversations without being allowed to send or delete anything.
