botkit

botkit is a Rust library for building chat bots with one handler model across multiple platforms.

The botkit crate is the facade entrypoint for the workspace. It re-exports botkit-core by default and exposes platform adapters behind explicit feature flags.

Installation

Use the facade crate when you want one dependency with opt-in platforms:

[dependencies]
botkit = { version = "0.1.0", features = ["telegram"] }

Available facade features:

• discord enables botkit::discord and the DiscordBot re-exports.
• telegram enables botkit::telegram and the TelegramBot re-exports.
• matrix enables botkit::matrix and the MatrixBot re-exports.
• full enables all platform adapters.

You can also depend on the smaller crates directly:

• botkit-core provides the shared bot abstractions, extractors, handlers, and response types.
• botkit-discord provides the Discord integration.
• botkit-telegram provides the Telegram integration.
• botkit-matrix provides the Matrix integration.

Design goals

• Reuse the same handler style across platforms.
• Keep the core abstractions transport-agnostic.
• Support async-first bot execution.
• Keep platform adapters opt-in instead of forcing heavy dependencies by default.
• Expose platform crates separately instead of hiding everything behind type erasure.

Crates

botkit

Facade crate that re-exports the core API and feature-gated platform integrations.

botkit-core

Shared building blocks:

• Bot and BotBuilder
• extractor-based handlers such as User, CommandArgs, and MessageContent
• unified Response and file response types

botkit-discord

Discord support built around gateway events and command/button handlers.

botkit-telegram

Telegram support for webhook-style handling and bot client operations.

botkit-matrix

Matrix support built on top of matrix-sdk, including encrypted room support.

Status

This project is a library workspace under active development. The API surface is still evolving.