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Runtime behavior

Discord Gateway

Section titled “Discord Gateway”

GATEWAY

Section titled “GATEWAY”
  • Type: boolean string; 1, true, and yes are truthy
  • Default: false
  • Use: Enables the Discord Gateway WebSocket client and resource subscriptions. When off, the server is REST-only and does not import discord.js.
  • Example: GATEWAY=true

discord-mcp serve --gateway is equivalent to GATEWAY=true. Use the environment variable when the MCP client config can set env but not command arguments.

Logging

Section titled “Logging”

LOG_LEVEL

Section titled “LOG_LEVEL”
  • Type: enum
  • Allowed: fatal, error, warn, info, debug, trace
  • Default: info
  • Use: Sets the embedded Pino logger level. debug and trace expose verbose middleware information for development.
  • Example: LOG_LEVEL=debug

Logs use stderr because stdout is reserved for stdio JSON-RPC.