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Chronicles / Helldivers 2 War Room

Pivot: from chat bot to war room

Decision

The project began as a Discord bot that would answer questions with Claude. Reading the consumer terms closed that door on day one. It became a war room instead: live Helldivers 2 campaign status, Major Orders, and liberation rates, posted to a server.

The Super Earth sigil, one of four faction marks drawn for the bot's cards.
The Super Earth sigil, one of four faction marks drawn for the bot's cards.

The first idea was a bot that let a Discord server chat with Claude. A reading of the consumer terms made clear that this was not a use the subscription covered, and the project was renamed and re-aimed the same day.

The new aim

Helldivers 2 has a galactic war that changes hourly: planets under attack, liberation percentages, Major Orders with deadlines. The community API exposes all of it. A bot that watches the war and reports to a server is useful, has a clear scope, and needs no model at all.

The scaffold

The first pull request set the shape everything else kept:

  • Signature-verified interactions. Discord’s interaction webhook, verified on every request, with no gateway connection to maintain.
  • Two commands, /mo for the current Major Order and /feed to subscribe a channel.
  • A dispatch poller on a cron trigger that reads the war state and posts changes.
  • Cursor before post. The poller writes its position before posting, so a crash mid-post cannot double-post.
  • Tokens redacted from every log line.

Where it runs

Cloudflare Workers, chosen over Lambda for the free cron triggers and the KV store that came with it, and without a Discord framework, since interactions over HTTP need only a signature check and a JSON body.