BotBotMe's idea of handling commands seems to be that instead of using prefixes (like !, $ or &) the bot has to be explicitly pinged.

As others have said, this is pretty verbose and not as simple to use.

I think the proper way to implement this would be a new botbot-plugins decorator complete with a rule in botbot-web to filter messages starting with a prefix specified in .env and allow plugins to specify a command and receive a list of arguments.

This would prevent having to set the prefix for each plugin and should make plugin development significantly easier.

Edit: This might also be useful for porting plugins from other IRC bots.