Create Discord Text Channel

Immutable Catalog Entry

This descriptor comes from the active versioned Portal catalog.

WRITEdiscord.create_text_channel

Contract tier: agent_ready
Risk: write
Catalog version: discord-2026.07.12.3
Descriptor hash: ad8482e684254ed55adf6193b0593d39dec5eaeb7e3f0120a40240c8cd0a2fa7

Use this when you need a new text channel in the guild or category. This creates a guild text channel through Discord's API and returns new channel ID, name, guild ID, and category ID. It requires a configured Discord bot and guild with the relevant permissions.

Request Body

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": "discord-create-text-channel-example",
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "discord.create_text_channel",
    "arguments": {
      "name": "name_example",
      "confirm": "confirm_example",
      "guild_id": "guild_id_123",
      "category_id": "category_id_123"
    }
  }
}

Arguments Schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "title": "create_text_channel input",
  "required": [
    "name"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "name": {
      "type": "string",
      "title": "Name",
      "description": "Human-readable name for the Discord resource being created."
    },
    "confirm": {
      "type": "string",
      "title": "Confirm",
      "default": "",
      "description": "Exact phrase CONFIRM APPLY when confirmation policy is enabled; never place credentials here."
    },
    "guild_id": {
      "type": "string",
      "title": "Guild Id",
      "default": "",
      "description": "Optional Discord guild snowflake override; otherwise uses request-scoped configuration."
    },
    "category_id": {
      "type": "string",
      "title": "Category Id",
      "default": "",
      "description": "Discord category snowflake identifying the parent category or target category."
    }
  },
  "description": "Validated input for the Discord MCP create_text_channel tool."
}

Output Schema

{
  "oneOf": [
    {
      "type": "object",
      "required": [
        "ok",
        "data",
        "meta"
      ],
      "properties": {
        "ok": {
          "const": true
        },
        "data": {
          "type": "object",
          "properties": {
            "name": {
              "type": [
                "string",
                "null"
              ],
              "description": "Provider data field name returned by create_text_channel."
            },
            "channel_id": {
              "type": [
                "string",
                "null"
              ],
              "description": "Provider data field channel_id returned by create_text_channel."
            },
            "category_id": {
              "type": [
                "string",
                "null"
              ],
              "description": "Provider data field category_id returned by create_text_channel."
            },
            "category_name": {
              "type": [
                "string",
                "null"
              ],
              "description": "Provider data field category_name returned by create_text_channel."
            }
          },
          "description": "new channel ID, name, guild ID, and category ID",
          "additionalProperties": true
        },
        "meta": {
          "type": "object",
          "required": [
            "duration_ms",
            "rate_limit",
            "warnings"
          ],
          "properties": {
            "guild_id": {
              "type": "string"
            },
            "warnings": {
              "type": "array",
              "items": {
                "type": "string"
              }
            },
            "thread_id": {
              "type": "string"
            },
            "channel_id": {
              "type": "string"
            },
            "rate_limit": {
              "type": "object",
              "additionalProperties": true
            },
            "request_id": {
              "type": "string"
            },
            "duration_ms": {
              "type": "integer",
              "minimum": 0
            }
          },
          "description": "Safe execution metadata containing no credentials or raw headers.",
          "additionalProperties": true
        }
      },
      "additionalProperties": false
    },
    {
      "type": "object",
      "required": [
        "ok",
        "error",
        "meta"
      ],
      "properties": {
        "ok": {
          "const": false
        },
        "meta": {
          "type": "object",
          "required": [
            "duration_ms",
            "rate_limit",
            "warnings"
          ],
          "properties": {
            "guild_id": {
              "type": "string"
            },
            "warnings": {
              "type": "array",
              "items": {
                "type": "string"
              }
            },
            "thread_id": {
              "type": "string"
            },
            "channel_id": {
              "type": "string"
            },
            "rate_limit": {
              "type": "object",
              "additionalProperties": true
            },
            "request_id": {
              "type": "string"
            },
            "duration_ms": {
              "type": "integer",
              "minimum": 0
            }
          },
          "description": "Safe execution metadata containing no credentials or raw headers.",
          "additionalProperties": true
        },
        "error": {
          "type": "object",
          "required": [
            "type",
            "message"
          ],
          "properties": {
            "type": {
              "type": "string"
            },
            "message": {
              "type": "string"
            },
            "diagnostics": {
              "type": "object",
              "additionalProperties": true
            },
            "required_perms": {
              "type": "array",
              "items": {
                "type": "string"
              }
            },
            "discord_error_code": {
              "type": "integer"
            }
          },
          "additionalProperties": false
        }
      },
      "additionalProperties": false
    }
  ],
  "title": "Discord MCP provider result",
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "description": "Normalized success or semantic-error response; ok=false is a failed call."
}

Code Examples

cURL
Node.js
Python

curl -X POST 'https://portal.madpanda3d.com/api/mcp' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer mad_live_***' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": "discord-create-text-channel-example",
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "discord.create_text_channel",
    "arguments": {
      "name": "name_example",
      "confirm": "confirm_example",
      "guild_id": "guild_id_123",
      "category_id": "category_id_123"
    }
  }
}'

const response = await fetch('https://portal.madpanda3d.com/api/mcp', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
    Authorization: 'Bearer mad_live_***',
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": "discord-create-text-channel-example",
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "discord.create_text_channel",
    "arguments": {
      "name": "name_example",
      "confirm": "confirm_example",
      "guild_id": "guild_id_123",
      "category_id": "category_id_123"
    }
  }
}),
});
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);

import requests

url = 'https://portal.madpanda3d.com/api/mcp'
headers = {
    'Authorization': 'Bearer mad_live_***',
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
}
payload = {
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": "discord-create-text-channel-example",
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "discord.create_text_channel",
    "arguments": {
      "name": "name_example",
      "confirm": "confirm_example",
      "guild_id": "guild_id_123",
      "category_id": "category_id_123"
    }
  }
}
response = requests.post(url, headers=headers, json=payload, timeout=60)
print(response.json())

Example Responses

200 Success
502 Upstream Error

{
  "ok": true,
  "message": "Tool discord.create_text_channel executed successfully.",
  "note": "Response shape varies by MCP tool. Inspect live responses for exact fields."
}

{
  "ok": false,
  "classification": "upstream_http_error",
  "message": "Upstream MCP returned a non-success status."
}

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