chat / adapter-twitch
vercel/chat/packages/adapter-twitch/AGENTS.md
Follow the repository-level AGENTS.md plus these package-specific rules. This package integrates Twitch channel chat and whispers through EventSub webhooks and the Helix API. It runs as a Twitch "cloud chatbot": a dedicated bot account, an app access token from the client credentials grant, and one-time authorizations from the bot and each broadcaster. It uses the EventSub webhook transport only, so it works on serverless platforms. - Factory: createTwitchAdapter - Adapter name: twitch - Thread IDs: twitch:{broadcasterUserId} (chat room) and twitch:whisper:{userId}…
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- AGENTS.md for @chat-adapter/twitch
- Scope
- Contracts
- Tokens
- Platform constraints
- Testing
# AGENTS.md for `@chat-adapter/twitch`
Follow the repository-level `AGENTS.md` plus these package-specific rules.
## Scope
This package integrates Twitch channel chat and whispers through EventSub
webhooks and the Helix API. It runs as a Twitch "cloud chatbot": a dedicated
bot account, an app access token from the client credentials grant, and
one-time authorizations from the bot and each broadcaster. It uses the
EventSub webhook transport only, so it works on serverless platforms.
## Contracts
- Factory: `createTwitchAdapter`
- Adapter name: `twitch`
- Thread IDs: `twitch:{broadcasterUserId}` (chat room) and
`twitch:whisper:{userId}` (whisper). A chat thread ID is also its channel ID.
- Lock scope: `channel`
- Handled EventSub types: `channel.chat.message` v1, `user.whisper.message` v1
- Required env vars: `TWITCH_CLIENT_ID`, `TWITCH_CLIENT_SECRET`,
`TWITCH_WEBHOOK_SECRET`, and `TWITCH_BOT_USERNAME` or `TWITCH_BOT_USER_ID`
## Tokens
- App access token (client credentials): EventSub subscriptions, Send Chat
Message, Delete Chat Messages, Get Users. Cached in memory and at
`twitch:app-token:{clientId}`; a 401 deletes both and retries once.
- User access token (`user:manage:whispers`): Send Whisper only. Static,
provider function, or managed refresh persisted at
`twitch:oauth:{clientId}:{botUserId}`. The stored record carries a SHA-256
`seed` of the configured refresh token and is ignored when it doesn't match.
A configured access token is used until a 401. A 401 retries once for
managed and provider tokens. Re-read state before refreshing, since another
instance may have rotated the refresh token.
## Platform constraints
- Chat messages are plain text, one line, at most 500 characters.
- Whispers are at most 500 characters to users who haven't whispered the bot
and 10,000 otherwise; the sender needs a verified phone number. Inbound
whisper senders are recorded at `twitch:whispered:{botUserId}:{userId}`.
- Shared chat copies (`source_broadcaster_user_id` set to another channel)
are ignored; only the source channel's copy is handled.
- Never call Delete Chat Messages without `message_id`: Twitch clears the
whole chat room.
- Send Chat Message can return 200 with `is_sent: false`; surface
`drop_reason` as an error.
- Chat events carry no timestamp; use `Twitch-Eventsub-Message-Timestamp`.
- Reject notifications older than 10 minutes. Chat SDK dedupes retries by
message ID.
- No edits, reactions, typing indicators, uploads, or history API.
`fetchMessages` returns `[]` so Chat SDK reads the history it persists
(`persistThreadHistory`); don't add an in-memory message cache.
## Testing
Mock `fetch`; unit tests must not call Twitch. Add payloads to
`sample-messages.md` when adding an event shape.
```bash
pnpm --filter @chat-adapter/twitch test
pnpm --filter @chat-adapter/twitch typecheck
pnpm --filter @chat-adapter/twitch build
```
Never log access tokens, refresh tokens, client secrets, the webhook secret,
or webhook signatures.
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CLAUDE.md
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- packages/adapter-teams/CLAUDE.md
- packages/adapter-telegram/CLAUDE.md
- packages/adapter-web/CLAUDE.md
- packages/adapter-whatsapp/CLAUDE.md
- packages/catalog/CLAUDE.md
- packages/create-chat-sdk/CLAUDE.md
- packages/create-chat-sdk/_template/CLAUDE.md
- packages/state-ioredis/CLAUDE.md
- packages/state-memory/CLAUDE.md
- packages/state-pg/CLAUDE.md
- packages/state-redis/CLAUDE.md
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- chat-sdkskills/chat/SKILL.md
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