The free, open-source, self-hostable Discord bot.
No paywalls. No premium tiers. Your data, your infrastructure.
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Shard is a modern, community-driven Discord bot — a complete alternative to MEE6, Dyno, Carl-bot, and ProBot that does not lock useful features behind a paywall.
Every component is released under the GNU AGPL v3: auditable, modifiable, and forkable.
| Project | Status | Description |
|---|---|---|
shard |
Active | The bot — Bun, TypeScript, discord.js v14. |
dashboard |
Planned | A dashboard for Shard |
- Free forever. Features are never gated behind a paid tier.
- Self-hostable. Run the bot and its tooling on your own infrastructure and own your data.
- Modern stack. Bun, TypeScript strict, discord.js v14 — no legacy compromises.
- Open development. Every change happens in the open, in the open repos.
- Bug reports & feature requests → open an issue
- Questions & ideas → GitHub Discussions
- Security vulnerabilities → please report privately, see SECURITY.md
- Contributing → read the contributing guide before opening a PR
All participation is governed by our Code of Conduct.
Unless explicitly stated otherwise, every project under the Shard organization is released under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 (AGPLv3) or any later version.
