## 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. With `CHATTO_RESPOND_ROOMS` set, list it too if the bot should also
   converse there. 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. By default it answers every
   room message; only with `CHATTO_REQUIRE_MENTION=true` do channel-kind rooms
   wait for an @mention (group rooms and DMs answer regardless).