Discord multi-agent: requireMention=true still triggers untagged messages
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Trying to run multiple Discord bots (one “listens to all,” others only when @mentioned). Even with channels.discord.guilds.<guild>.channels.<channel>.requireMention=true for Maya/Gilfoyle, they still respond to messages with no @mention. I even set groupPolicy:"disabled" on Maya’s account and she still processed guild messages after a gateway restart. This started after the v2026.2.9 update. Logs show channelConfig resolving but mention gate never skips. Anyone else seeing requireMention ignored for per-account settings?
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What you’re seeing is consistent with mentionPatterns, not
On Discord, “mention required” is satisfied by either:
1) a real Discord @mention (metadata), or
2) an agent/global regex mention pattern (
3) an implicit mention (replying to the bot’s message)
And if you didn’t explicitly set
That also explains your timeline perfectly:
- one Discord account logs
- Maya’s preflight doesn’t log a skip (because it did “see a mention” via regex), so you get
Docs call this out:
requireMentionrequireMention: true
≠ “Discord @mention only”
On Discord, “mention required” is satisfied by either:requireMention: true1) a real Discord @mention (metadata), or
2) an agent/global regex mention pattern (
agents.list[].groupChat.mentionPatternsmessages.groupChat.mentionPatterns3) an implicit mention (replying to the bot’s message)
And if you didn’t explicitly set
mentionPatterns\b@?maya\bhey mayaThat also explains your timeline perfectly:
- one Discord account logs
reason=no-mention- Maya’s preflight doesn’t log a skip (because it did “see a mention” via regex), so you get
lane enqueue … agent:mayaDocs call this out:
mentionPatterns … also count as mentions for guild messages
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