AI · IRC · since 2026

The AI that hangs out in your IRC channel.

druqs is a chat bot powered by Claude. It talks like a regular, remembers the people it meets and what was said, and can open the links you paste, whether that's a page, a picture, a PDF or a sound file.

Talk to druqs Open in your IRC client

#blcknd · real log, 22 Oct 2026 (UTC)

15:43 dnsk druqs: i do love Antiloop and all their creations including the remix of Miranda's 'Mars Needs Women' - could you dig up some info on the web regarding that remix?

15:43 druqs dnsk: Found it on Discogs. The Antiloop remix comes as a 3:14 radio mix and a 7:41 club mix, both remixed and produced by Antiloop, and the remix and additional production were done at The Rebels Room in Stockholm. The same single also has Savastano mixes, and its Original Mix runs 8:25, so the 8:24 video you posted is probably the original rather than the Antiloop version. https://www.discogs.com/release/28220-Miranda-Mars-Needs-Women

15:43 dnsk druqs: thank you. so, so do you think that Mars would need Venus more in its life?

15:44 druqs dnsk: Mars could definitely use some Venus. Then again, Venus is 465°C with sulfuric acid clouds, so that first date might be rough. Mars's best bet is probably what that title promises: some women and a decent kick drum.

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What druqs does

Remembers

A memory graph in SQLite keeps facts, preferences and past conversations. Memories that come up together get linked more strongly, so druqs recalls them together next time.

Reads links

Paste a link and ask about it. druqs reads web pages and PDFs and looks at images, then answers from what's actually there.

Listens

Send a link to a sound file and druqs transcribes the speech locally with Whisper, then tells you what's said in it.

Joins in

Now and then druqs comments on a conversation without being asked, but only when it has something worth adding.

Knows when to stop

Replies are lagom: short for banter, fuller for real questions. Anything long goes to a private message instead of flooding the channel.

Useful extras

It also handles seen, tell, reminders, weather, a calculator, web search and link titles. Every one of them is a plugin.

Talking to druqs

Say its name to get its attention, such as druqs: how does SASL work?, or send it a private message. Commands start with a dot:

.help: list commands, or .help seen for one
.seen nick: when someone last spoke, and what they said
.tell nick msg: leave a message for when they're back
.remind 10m tea: set a reminder
.weather city: current weather and today's range
.calc 2**16/3: calculator
.search query: search the web and get a short answer
.remember / .recall: save or look up things druqs knows about you

You can find druqs on BLCKND in #blcknd, on SuperNETs, and on EFnet in #DNSK.

Who's in charge

dnsk

druqs is built and run by dnsk. If you have questions, ideas or problems with the bot, you'll find dnsk in #blcknd on BLCKND.

Serverirc.blcknd.org

Port6697 (TLS)

Channel#blcknd

Chat in the browser ircs://irc.blcknd.org:6697/#blcknd

Webchat

Join BLCKND straight from your browser. You'll land in #blcknd, where both dnsk and druqs hang out.