This is a shell adapter for testing a botkit bot, derived from the Slack adapter.

You'll want to be running Node 6.1.0 or newer.

$ npm install --save botkit-shell

In your bot initialization code, do this:

let shellbot = require('botkit-shell')
controller = shellbot({})
controller.spawn({})

The shellbot follows most of the same conventions as the Slack bot, since it's written

Start up your bot with this adapter, and you should get a prompt that looks like this:

##>

Interact as though you were in a public channel. Switch to a DM context with \dm, switch back with \ch. Do \? for more info on the shell commands.