I've successfully got autodl-irssi up and running in a docker container.
I confirmed this by connecting to the irc servers from a different computer and using /whois to find my bot.
If I manually enter irssi, I can see I'm connected to the channels and can confirm autodl 2.6 is running and my config is loaded without errors.
However even with no filters set, nothing downloads. I don't see a line in the log saying "Monitoring xyz channel" either.
I tried asking for help in the irc but did not get a response.
I'm using upload-type = watchdir since I'm using transmission as my client. permissions for my watch folder are set to 777 and the directory is owned by the user.