diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 9a2aeb9..c50c988 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ You can also build and run Sucker as a Docker container with `docker compose bui
 
 ### Changelog
 
+- 2.3: ECHO. Put ECHO: anywhere in a message and sucker repeats whatever comes after it in the reply — for triggering char-side script and lorebook keywords.
 - 2.2: Added support for directly inputting webp file names or character image links when creating PNG character cards
 - 2.1: updated deps, note about image fetching, list of mirrors
 - 2.0: from Tui: Multimessage support! Tracks changes to character descriptions and scenarios across multiple extractions. Shows version badges, message counts, and provides detailed change history viewer.
diff --git a/src/app/api/proxy/route.ts b/src/app/api/proxy/route.ts
index 4e630ce..e3b1999 100644
--- a/src/app/api/proxy/route.ts
+++ b/src/app/api/proxy/route.ts
@@ -93,6 +93,15 @@ function parseConversationToken(content: string | undefined | null): string | nu
   return null;
 }
 
+function parseEchoText(content: string | undefined | null): string | null {
+  if (!content) return null;
+  const match = content.match(/ECHO:\s*([\s\S]+)/i);
+  if (match && match[1].trim()) {
+    return match[1].trim();
+  }
+  return null;
+}
+
 function removePersonaTags(content: string): string {
   let result = content;
   const openingMatch = result.match(/<[^<>]+?\s*'s\s+Persona>/i);
@@ -487,6 +496,18 @@ export async function POST(request: NextRequest) {
       responseMessage = `New character "${extracted.data.name}" created (v1).${tokenNote}`;
     }
 
+    // Echo back anything the user sent after an "ECHO:" marker in their
+    // latest message, appended after the normal status message
+    const lastUserMessage =
+      [...body.messages]
+        .reverse()
+        .find((m: { role?: string }) => m?.role === "user") ??
+      body.messages[body.messages.length - 1];
+    const echoText = parseEchoText(lastUserMessage?.content);
+    if (echoText) {
+      responseMessage += `\n\n${echoText}`;
+    }
+
     cleanupExpiredCards();
 
     // Return SSE response if requested, otherwise JSON
diff --git a/src/app/page.tsx b/src/app/page.tsx
index afe72d6..447e6d6 100644
--- a/src/app/page.tsx
+++ b/src/app/page.tsx
@@ -371,9 +371,9 @@ export default function Home() {
           {/* Row 1: Title on left, Hamburger on right */}
           <div className="flex justify-between items-start mb-3">
             <div>
-              <h1 className="text-2xl font-bold">Sucker v2.2</h1>
+              <h1 className="text-2xl font-bold">Sucker v2.3</h1>
               <p className="text-xs text-muted-foreground">
-                Consider joining Avalon!
+                ECHO: Consider joining Avalon!
               </p>
             </div>
             <DropdownMenu>
@@ -409,9 +409,9 @@ export default function Home() {
         {/* Desktop Layout */}
         <div className="hidden sm:flex justify-between items-center mb-4">
           <div>
-            <h1 className="text-3xl font-bold">Sucker v2.2</h1>
+            <h1 className="text-3xl font-bold">Sucker v2.3</h1>
             <p className="text-sm text-muted-foreground">
-              Consider joining Avalon!
+              ECHO: Consider joining Avalon!
             </p>
           </div>
           <div className="flex gap-2">
@@ -820,6 +820,14 @@ export default function Home() {
                 moment, but you can use the changes detected to modify the
                 character card yourself post-export.
               </li>
+              <li>
+                Some advanced scripts and lorebooks only add their entries
+                when the <i>character</i> says the keyword, not you. Put{" "}
+                <code className="bg-muted px-1 py-0.5 rounded text-yellow-600">ECHO:</code>{" "}
+                in a message and everything after it gets repeated at the end
+                of the reply — instant character-side keywords, and sucker
+                tracks whatever gets added.
+              </li>
               <li>
                 Download the JSON files or go through a little more effort to
                 get PNGs instead.
@@ -928,6 +936,26 @@ export default function Home() {
             </DialogDescription>
           </DialogHeader>
           <div className="space-y-6">
+            <div>
+              <h3 className="font-semibold text-lg mb-2">Aug 2026 - ECHO</h3>
+              <div className="space-y-2 text-sm text-muted-foreground">
+                <p>
+                  Sucker can parrot now. Send a message with ECHO: in it, and
+                  everything after that gets repeated back at the end of the
+                  reply, exactly as you typed it.
+                </p>
+                <p>
+                  The usual responses don&apos;t change at all — the echoed part
+                  just tags along after them. The point: some of the fancier
+                  scripts and lorebooks on the platform you suck from only add
+                  their entries when the character says the keyword, not you.
+                  ECHO plants your words on the character&apos;s side of the
+                  chat, those entries fire, and sucker catches whatever they
+                  sneak in. Case doesn&apos;t matter, echo: works too.
+                </p>
+              </div>
+            </div>
+            <Separator />
             <div>
               <h3 className="font-semibold text-lg mb-2">Mar 2026 - Better error messaging for context size issues</h3>
               <div className="space-y-2 text-sm text-muted-foreground">