This is a version of GitHub's Campfire bot, hubot. He's pretty cool.
This version is designed to be deployed on IRC.
You can test your hubot by running the following.
% bin/hubotYou'll see some start up output about where your scripts come from and a prompt.
[Sun, 04 Dec 2011 18:41:11 GMT] INFO Loading adapter shell
[Sun, 04 Dec 2011 18:41:11 GMT] INFO Loading scripts from /home/tomb/Development/hubot/scripts
[Sun, 04 Dec 2011 18:41:11 GMT] INFO Loading scripts from /home/tomb/Development/hubot/src/scripts
Hubot>Then you can interact with hubot by typing hubot help.
Hubot> hubot help
Hubot> animate me <query> - The same thing as `image me`, except adds a few
convert me <expression> to <units> - Convert expression to given units.
help - Displays all of the help commands that Hubot knows about.
...Take a look at the scripts in the ./scripts folder for examples. Add whatever
functionality you want hubot to have. Read up on what you can do with hubot in
the Scripting Guide.