The problem with striving to be low impact is that the code will move forward and your patches will no longer be relevant and they will be increasingly difficult for people to use or they will be forgotten.
If you want people to be able to use this for more than a short time, your best bet is to do things "the right way" with the goal of getting them accepted into the official codebase. If your intent is to have something set on a bot specific basis then adding it to each bot in the table seems like the right thing to me. Either way you do it, it will require a database update to be applied.
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