# Monitoring AI Bot PMs
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/monitoring-ai-bot-pms/313828
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** ai, ai-bot
**Created:** [June 26, 2024, 3:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/monitoring-ai-bot-pms/313828 "2024-06-26T15:59:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@aas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/aas)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2024, 3:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/monitoring-ai-bot-pms/313828/1 "2024-06-26T15:59:32Z")
The default action of the AI bot button is to start a PM with the bot. Although I think it would be great if this was configurable so that the default action is to post a public topic, **I am wondering about the best way for forum _mods_ (not admins) to stay in-the-loop with bot conversations so they can monitor and step in when necessary**.
As a forum admin, I can navigate to the user associated with an Discourse AI persona, then view that bot user’s PMs. There are a few problems with this:
- I don’t get notifications for PMs sent to the bot
- Forum mods don’t have access to PMs of other users
**questions**
- How can members of the staff group on my site monitor the private messages sent to the ai bot on my forum?
- Is it possible to start PMs with a group inbox instead of a PM with the bot?
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2024, 6:50am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/monitoring-ai-bot-pms/313828/2 "2024-06-27T06:50:40Z")
> [@aas](#):
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> Is it possible to start PMs with a group inbox instead of a PM with the bot?
At the moment not, but it sounds like a very good feature request.
Force a `user allowed group` for all bot PMs. It will certainly make it so much easier to monitor cause all bot pms will be visible to the group and it is not a huge change.
Moving this to #Contribute > Feature!
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### Author:  [@aas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/aas)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2024, 9:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/monitoring-ai-bot-pms/313828/3 "2024-06-27T21:09:02Z")
Love it. If you give me a hint on how to implement this, I’d be happy to take a whack at it.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2024, 12:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/monitoring-ai-bot-pms/313828/4 "2024-06-28T00:31:28Z")
If you install it on local,what I would recommend:
1. Introduce a new site setting for `ai_bot_monitor_groups` (list of groups monitoring bot conversations)
2. Be sure that that is injected into `user_allowed_groups` on any reply to a bot PM if it is not there.
3. Add some sort of validation that disallows people from removing the group
4. Tests in playground\_spec to validate the behavior