Shroud

A Slack bot allowing for anonymous reports to be sent whilst allowing for bidirectional communication between the reporter and the recipient.

Features

• Send anonymous reports
  • Reports are sent to a channel where recipient(s) can view them
  • The reports can be responded to, relaying the message to the anonymous reporter's DM with the bot

Setup

1. Create a new Slack app at api.slack.com/apps
2. Create an Airtable with three columns: dm_ts, forwarded_ts, selection, selection_ts, and dm_channel
3. Use the manifest.yml file to create it
4. Install the app to your workspace
5. Clone the repository
6. Copy example.settings.toml to settings.toml and fill in the values

Installation

Docker

Run the following command to build and run the Docker container:

docker-compose up

If you want to run the container in the background, use the -d flag:

docker-compose up -d

Poetry

If you want to run the server without Docker, you can use Poetry:

poetry install
poetry run python -m shroud

Usage

Upon a direct message being sent to the bot, the bot will forward the message to the specified channel. The recipient(s) can then respond to the message in the thread, which will be relayed to the anonymous reporter's DM with the bot.
To clean broken database records, run the /shroud-clean-db command.