Mediabot v3 — Runtime Safety and Timer Consistency Pass

Context

This pass continued the defensive cleanup of Mediabot v3, with a focus on the paths that run continuously or during important runtime events:

• authentication checks;
• autologin updates;
• channel object database method…

Exact Lookups and DB Safety Pass

Context

This pass continued the cleanup work on Mediabot v3 after the previous output-pagination and LIKE-escaping work.

The focus this time was more internal:

• replacing accidental SQL LIKE lookups with exact = lookups where the value is an i…

Mediabot v3 — Async eval, botNotice hardening, help filtering (May 2026)

Context

Audit of snapshot 20260503. Six modules touched. The main story is the completion of the async .eval pipe read, a missing truncation in botNotice, a repeated prepare() in the ban list loop, two stra…

Mediabot v3 — Command Output Polish, Safer Matching, and Runtime Hardening

Context

This development pass focused on improving Mediabot v3 without changing its spirit.

The main goals were simple:

• make long IRC outputs readable instead of truncated;
• avoid accidental SQL wildcard …

📜 Revelio Pages: Paginated searchcmd Results and MariaDB-Safe LIKE Matching

This Mediabot v3 update improves an existing user-facing command:

searchcmd

The goal was to make command search output more readable and to fix a real MariaDB SQL escaping issue discovered during …

⏲️ Horologium Guard: Safer Dynamic Timer Validation in Mediabot v3

This Mediabot v3 update focuses on a small but important piece of hygiene around dynamic timers.

The command improved in this pass is:

addtimer

The goal is simple: prevent ugly or unsafe timer definitions …

⏱️ Tempus Revelio: Partyline .uptime and Cleaner .whom Layout

This Mediabot v3 update improves the Partyline with two small but useful operator-facing changes:

.uptime
.whom display layout

Nothing flashy, but exactly the kind of quality-of-life work that makes the Party…

🧪 Salvio Hexia: Isolating Partyline .eval in a Timed Subprocess

This Mediabot v3 update focuses on one sensitive operator feature:

Partyline .eval

The command is useful for live debugging and emergency inspection, but it is also dangerous if it runs directly inside the bo…

Mediabot v3 — Security and Correctness Pass (May 2026)

Context

Audit of snapshot 20260503. Five modules touched.

The focus of this pass is authentication security and correctness:

dead database statement handle
missing brute-force guard
wildcard matching bug in the ban …

🧱 Foundation Charm: Cleaner Database Install and Migration Workflow for Mediabot v3

This update focuses on the database installation and upgrade path for Mediabot v3.

The goal is simple: make fresh installs and existing database upgrades cleaner, safer, and easier to reproduce.

This …