jdev - 2026-07-29

I’m looking at writing a small bot and was wondering if there were any XEPs out there that would basically give me a way to provide either prefills or buttons people could click or otherwise help guide people to reply in a specific way in a 1:1 chat. Thinking of things like the telegram keyboard or buttons slack bots can provide https://core.telegram.org/bots/features#keyboards

theres two routes you could go, either using adhoc commands or in the dm use reactions (which shouldnt really be freeform but they are just a string)

https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0050.html

its how you get forms like this

https://downloadable.pain.agency/file_share/019faff6-0586-7f29-8d76-ecd1caa7cf9f/00407ffd-0dbb-4096-99c6-b260c1143184.png

many clients have poor ui/ux for it though

thanks, will try that out, not even sure if the lib I’m using supports this out of the box even. Will try tho

what lib are you using?

There is a XEP for that: XEP-0439: Quick Response https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0439.html