Steward

Getting a group into an online game from Discord is usually a copy-pasted link and a lot of "who's in?" Steward is a Discord game-platform bot: a library of games launchable with one slash command, personal seat links so every player lands in the right chair, and per-server stats and leaderboards once the results come back.

One Node process: the discord.js gateway bot plus a small HTTP server for result webhooks, over Postgres with Drizzle. The game registry is a static config module rather than a table, because a new game is a code change anyway.

The heart of it is a documented game-adapter contract. Steward launches a match with a bearer token and a per-match callback. The match embed carries a Join button that mints a seat token bound to the clicker's Discord ID and replies with their private link. When the game ends it posts a signed result webhook, Steward credits the seats, posts the result embed, and updates stats. Meridian was the first game to implement the contract, and any game that does can join the library.

Identity binds at join, not at launch. Seat tokens are minted when a player clicks Join, so late joiners work naturally and there is no second sync call between Steward and the game. Bare-code joins still play, they just earn no stats.

Idempotent results. Seats upsert by token, and the first transition to completed wins. A retried webhook can't double-credit anyone.

Disposable process. All state lives in Postgres, so the bot can be restarted or redeployed at any time. Slash commands register themselves on startup.

Tests run without Discord or a database server. Database tests run on in-process Postgres via PGlite and Discord interactions are mocked, so the full suite runs on any machine in seconds.