Self Bot Guard

The Self-Bot Guard (1.2.0)

Why it exists

maintenance is not a repair button. On whatever character receives it, it permanently:

• learns weapon skills and sets them to max (Swords, Daggers, Maces, Staves, … for the class)
• learns professions and secondary skills (First Aid, Fishing, Cooking, gathering/crafting)
• learns every class spell available at that level, plus all other available and special spells
• spends ALL talent points (it picks the spec)
• inserts glyphs, enchants and gems the equipped gear (level-gated)
• learns riding and mounts, sets dungeon-key reputations to Honored (70+), completes attunement quests
• fills the bags (food, drink, ammo, reagents, consumables, potions, keyring), creates/trains a pet, repairs everything

Source: MaintenanceAction::Execute in mod-playerbots src/Ai/Base/Actions/TrainerAction.cpp — verified line by line on commit b6696bd.

With self-bot on (.playerbots bot self), the character that receives it is you. That happened, unwarned, to a character that mattered. Hence 1.2.0.

autogear equips generated gear up to the server's quality cap where the new item scores at least 1.2× the worn one; replaced items go to the bags. autogear reset and bis destroy every equipped item first — MiniGM refuses to send either, from anywhere.

The window

Maintenance	Autogear

How the guard works

1. MiniGM watches the server's own system lines — Enable player botAI / Disable player botAI — so it always knows whether self-bot is on for your character. The flag survives /reload (/mgm selfbot shows it, /mgm selfbot off clears a stale one).
2. While self-bot is on, Maint and Gear stop and open the confirm window instead of sending.
3. The window lists every change the command will make, one item per line. It is opaque, movable, scalable by its bottom-right grip, and works by click or Enter.
4. Nothing is sent until you type Accept (case sensitive) and press Enter or click Send. A wrong word keeps the window open with a red error inside it. Esc or Cancel sends nothing.

Maint or Gear on yourself, on purpose

Solo, each button offers its own command on your character behind that same window. After Accept, MiniGM:

1. turns self-bot on (only if it was off);
2. verifies the server actually enabled it — if refused, nothing else is sent;
3. whispers you the one command;
4. waits for the bot AI's own answer ("I'm maintaining" / "I'm auto gearing (…)"), up to 30 s;
5. turns self-bot back off (only if MiniGM turned it on).

In a group, /mgm maintme and /mgm gearme do the same. The group Maint and Gear buttons keep talking to your bots as always.