Specs for Gateway and Priviledged Intents

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#4,368 opened on Aug 25, 2020 0 comments 1 reaction 0 assignees View on GitHub

Category: Cogs - Downloader Category: Core - Other Internals Complex Issue Status: Accepted Type: Feature

Description

# Feature request

#### Select the type of feature you are requesting:

- [x] Cog
- [ ] Command
- [x] API functionality

#### Describe your requested feature

Per Discord:

> Intents are optionally supported on the v6 gateway. They will become mandatory in a future gateway version.

Additional, privileged intents are toggles available now in the developer panel for each bot.

![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/955640/91177675-1b9c0b80-e6b2-11ea-94fe-0744cfc028cb.png)

See [HERE ](https://discord.com/developers/docs/topics/gateway#gateway-intents)for the current documentation.

Red should have some system to communicate to users that they are expected to enable the privileged intents under certain circumstances.

Third party cogs should specify which intents they need, and Red should summarize current intents to the user.

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