An honest breakdown of what each tool does, where it matches Twitch, and where it goes further.
The honest take
Most Stream Tools are a 1:1 mirror of what Twitch already offers in their dashboard. We built them because they’re the demoable interface for the API connection — every button you see here maps to a Twitch Helix API call that’s also available via MCP. The dashboard is useful on its own for quick access, but the real value unlocks when you connect an AI assistant and let it drive these same controls through natural language.
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Update your title, game, and tags. This is essentially what Twitch’s dashboard already does — we’re a 1:1 mirror. The real value is that the same controls are accessible via MCP, so your AI assistant can update your stream info from a conversation.
Drop a marker in your VOD timeline. Identical to pressing the Twitch hotkey. Useful here mainly because MCP can drop markers automatically — for example, an AI that marks every time chat goes wild.
Start a commercial or snooze the next ad. Same buttons Twitch gives you. The dashboard view shows your ad schedule at a glance, which is marginally more convenient than the native panel.
Interactive features for your viewers.
Create polls, view results, end or archive them. Functionally identical to Twitch’s poll panel. The advantage: you see all recent polls in a list with vote counts, and MCP lets you create polls from natural language.
Beyond Twitch
Via MCP, you can say “start a poll about tonight’s game” and your AI handles the rest — title, choices, duration. That’s genuinely faster than clicking through the Twitch UI.
Create channel point predictions, lock them, pick a winner. Same as Twitch’s prediction panel. The list view with point totals is slightly more informative than the native UI.
Beyond Twitch
MCP predictions are the real differentiator. Your AI can create, lock, and resolve predictions conversationally — useful during fast-paced gameplay where clicking through menus isn’t practical.
Create and manage custom rewards. We go a bit further than Twitch here: preset templates for common rewards (trivia triggers, highlight requests, etc.), inline editing without page reloads, and a redemption queue per reward.
Beyond Twitch
This is one of the genuinely useful dashboard pages. The preset system means you can set up a “trivia question” reward in two clicks that integrates with the trivia system.
Send messages and manage chat settings.
Send a message or announcement to your channel’s chat via the REST API. This is NOT a live chat client — you can’t read incoming messages or have conversations. It’s a one-way broadcast tool.
Beyond Twitch
The real power is MCP: your AI can send messages, announcements, and shoutouts programmatically. For example, auto-announcing poll results or welcoming raiders.
Toggle slow mode, emote-only, follower-only, subscriber-only modes. Same toggles as Twitch’s chat settings. We add preset slow-mode durations for quick switching.
Manage bans, timeouts, and chat safety.
Ban or timeout users, view the banned users list with reasons and expiry dates. Equivalent to Twitch’s mod tools. The banned users list with search and expiry info is slightly more useful than Twitch’s native view.
Send an official warning to a user. Uses the newer Twitch warning system. Same as the /warn command but with a user search UI.
Delete individual chat messages by ID. Same as clicking the trash icon in Twitch’s mod view, but accessible via the dashboard and MCP for bulk cleanup.
Manage blocked terms that get auto-filtered from chat. Add or remove terms individually. Direct mirror of Twitch’s AutoMod blocked terms list.
Toggle shield mode on or off. When active, it enables stricter AutoMod filtering and restricts chat to reduce harassment during heated moments. Same as the Twitch shield mode button.
Clips, videos, and media tools.
Browse your channel’s clips, create new clips while live, and search by title or creator. The gallery view with thumbnails is nicer than Twitch’s clip manager.
Beyond Twitch
We added AI transcription — click “Transcribe” on any clip to get a text description and transcript. Useful for finding specific moments without rewatching. This doesn’t exist in native Twitch.