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BARK

Bark is a Discord soundbite bot with an AI brain. When someone says something that matches a configured trigger phrase, the bot plays a matching audio clip in the voice channel — but with a layer of Claude-powered intelligence deciding whether the moment is right. **Smart Brain** is the core differentiator: rather than simple string matching, Bark routes messages through Claude for contextual analysis. It understands intent, not just keywords — reducing false positives and making playback feel earned rather than mechanical. Two quality-of-life features make it usable in real servers: **Better Ears** lets you tune the detection sensitivity per trigger (no more false fires on partial matches), and **cooldown logic** prevents the same clip from playing twice in quick succession. The whole thing runs as a Windows service via NSSM, auto-starting on boot without a terminal window.