The /setup wizard
/setup configures Server Assistant for your server: a short guided flow where
the bot detects sensible defaults, fills them in, and you confirm each screen.
About a minute, start to finish.
Three ways to reach it:
- Automatically: when the bot joins, it DMs whoever added it (often a Manage Server admin rather than the owner) a Welcome message that opens the wizard.
/setup: run it any time to re-open the wizard (it pre-fills your current configuration, not a blank slate).- Web portal: the wizard offers a “finish setup on the web” link to the portal if you’d rather use a browser.
Who can run it: the server owner, or an admin with Manage Server.
Quick start
The bot does the work; you just confirm. About a minute.
Add the bot
One click. It scans your server and DMs you a ready-filled wizard the instant it joins.
In your DMs
Your wizard's waiting, already filled in. Tap Looks good.
/setup
Rather do it in-server? Run it any time, or tap the Run setup button the bot shows on any command before you're set up.
Make it yours (optional)
Tweak anything in /settings, a wizard for every section, every change saves instantly.
The settings wizards
- Branding · embed colour, nickname, timezone
- Quick Presets · AutoMod / ladder / onboarding / anti-raid
- Behaviour · approval timeout, log verbosity, Threat Score
- New Members · auto-role, welcome reaction
- Verification · Reception desk & who gets held
- Channel allowlist · where the bot responds
- Role Tiers · custom tiers + approval authority
- Notifications · per-event role pings
Your server-health Pulse lives in the web portal now, not here.
Prefer one command? /autopilot opens this same wizard with every step pre-filled from your detected channels and roles, nothing saved until you finish. However you set up, wizard, /autopilot, or web portal, you land in the same place: channels and roles configured, a moderation profile matched to your community, and the free AI trial on.
Nice first touches
/onboarding/automod/timezonehelp in staff-chat for the full listStep through every screen
Here’s the wizard, screen by screen. Use Next › and ‹ Back to walk each state, including the two conditional screens (Preflight and Permission review) that only appear when the bot needs them.
Only shows if something's missing. If the bot already has what it needs, the wizard skips to Step 1. Re-check re-reads permissions after you fix them; Continue anyway proceeds with what the bot can do.
Channels. Pick the staff chat (the command listening post). A log channel is optional, your dashboard moderation log is always on, so Portal only skips it. The bot pre-fills what it detected. Looks good, pick roles moves to the four-step wizard (channels → roles → welcome desk → moderation & AI); Create for me makes fresh channels. Tags read (detected) on a new server, (current) when you re-run setup.
Roles. Choose your Admin and Moderator roles; the colour emoji mirrors each role's colour. No suitable roles yet? Create Admin + Mod generates them with sensible permissions. The owner is always full-access, so an owner role is optional.
Only shows if a tidy-up is needed. If your staff roles lack a permission they need, or @everyone has a risky one, the bot lists the exact change and waits for Approve & apply. If role hierarchy blocks a change, this becomes a Re-check after you move the bot's role up.
Welcome desk. Pick an existing verified role or tap Create Verified role to make one. Left on (recommended, and the default), Reception goes live as you finish the step: it creates a branded #reception channel (pinned to the top of your channel list), pins the greeting, and sets the verification gate to intelligent. The greeting is free to customise right here; Premium extras, a receptionist persona, a banner image and the concierge, live in /settings. Prefer not to? Skip Reception and the wizard moves on. Not in Discord? The web portal's setup wizard now has this same Welcome desk step, so you can set Reception up there too.
Community type. The bot guesses your community type from your server name and description (Gaming, Creator, Anime, Crypto, Education, DIY and more) to preset AutoMod, the punishment ladder and anti-raid. You're not asked for an AI key: the free 150k-token trial is on by default. Prefer your own key with no trial limit? Set it up any time with /ai-config.
Done. A recap of everything configured. Post welcome to staff chat drops a short “how to drive the bot” guide into your staff channel (on a re-run this becomes Re-post). From here, try /help or open /settings to fine-tune.
What if I want to change something later?
Nothing here is one-shot. Re-run /setup any time, it loads your current
configuration so you can change one thing without starting over. For per-feature
control, open the Settings hub with /settings, or use each tool’s own
command (AutoMod, onboarding and the rest, each with its own page here).
If something needs a nudge
Commands not showing yet?
Bot can't action someone?
AutoMod looks quiet?
/settings → Quick Presets → AutoMod, then flip Enabled on in /automod.Setting it up again?
/setup any time, it keeps your warnings, notes, snippets, and audit logs.See also
- Main features: everything the bot does
- Settings hub: every configuration panel
- AutoMod: auto-moderation in depth
- Wiki home: the full command reference