---
name: seedcord
description: Build a Discord bot with seedcord, a TypeScript framework for gateway and http bots, typed end to end. Covers picking a transport, declaring slash commands with generated option types, replying, components, gates, events, plugins, the CLI, and building for a server or Cloudflare Workers.
license: Apache-2.0
compatibility: TypeScript projects on Node 24.11 or newer, or Bun 1.4.2 or newer.
metadata:
    documentation: https://preview.seedcord.org/guide
    reference: https://seedcord.org/docs
    llms_txt: https://preview.seedcord.org/guide/llms.txt
---

# Building a bot with seedcord

## 1. Read the rules

Fetch https://preview.seedcord.org/guide/llms.txt. It holds every rule that stops you inventing seedcord, and the index of every page. seedcord is absent from training data, so anything you recall about it is invented.

## 2. Scaffold the project

Run `pnpm create seedcord`. It asks where the project goes, which transport, and your bot token. Then it installs, formats, runs codegen, and makes a git commit.

## 3. Write a command

A command file declares the command. A handler class replies to it. Read https://preview.seedcord.org/guide/commands.md, then the page for whatever else you are adding.

## 4. Run codegen

Run `seedcord codegen` after you add or change a command. The handler generics read the tables it writes.

## 5. Check every claim before you write it

Fetch the page for the surface you are using. Every page answers at its own url plus `.md`, so https://preview.seedcord.org/guide/checks/gates.md is the Gates page.

## 6. Build for production

Read https://preview.seedcord.org/guide/build.md before you run `seedcord build`. It covers a node server and Cloudflare Workers.