## Chatto Plugin Installed ✅

During installation you were prompted for the Chatto connection details, and
your answers were written to `~/.hermes/.env`. Next steps: review that
configuration, restart the gateway so the bot comes online, then bring it into
a room and try it out.

**Review your `~/.hermes/.env` or `config.yaml`.** Secrets (passwords, tokens)
belong in `~/.hermes/.env` only — never in `config.yaml`; non-secret settings
can live in either file. Environment variables take precedence over
`config.yaml` entries.

1. Connection details (required)

   Make sure either an existing bearer token:

   ```
   CHATTO_TOKEN=your-token
   ```

   …or login plus password is set:

   ```
   CHATTO_LOGIN=your-username
   CHATTO_PASSWORD=your-password
   ```

   Without `CHATTO_BASE_URL` the plugin connects to the public ChattoHQ server
   (`https://chat.chatto.run`). To use your own server:

   ```
   CHATTO_BASE_URL=https://chat.example.com
   ```

2. Home channel (optional)

   Where cron job output and notifications get delivered when there is no
   conversation context to reply into — the default outbound target, nothing
   more. It follows the same participation rules as any room: a silent room
   stays quiet, so list it in one of the mention room lists (see step 5) too
   if the bot should also converse in it. If unset (the usual case — the
   installer only asks when you enter one), the first joined room is used:

   ```
   CHATTO_HOME_CHANNEL=ROOM_ID_HERE
   ```

3. Restart the Hermes Gateway

   The bot comes online here — the steps below need it running:

   ```bash
   hermes gateway restart
   ```

4. Add the bot to a room

   The bot sees only rooms its account has joined — membership lives on the
   Chatto server, survives gateway restarts, and nothing is joined silently on
   startup. Invite the bot account natively in Chatto, or DM it:

   ```
   /join ROOM_ID_HERE
   ```

5. Test

   Send any message in a room the bot has joined. DMs answer right away;
   every other room stays silent until you list it — in
   `CHATTO_REQUIRE_MENTION_ROOMS` (answers only when the message addresses
   the bot via `@name`, `@all` or `@here`) or `CHATTO_OPTIONAL_MENTION_ROOMS`
   (answers every message). The `/join` reply prints both lines ready to
   paste, with the room ID filled in.

   Editing works as a correction: fix a typo in your sent message within
   5 minutes and Hermes restarts his answer with the corrected text. If he had
   ignored the message because an `@mention` was missing, editing the mention
   in makes him answer after all.