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Overview
SillyTavern is a locally installed, open-source interface for interacting with text-generation models, image generators, and text-to-speech systems. It supports a wide range of local and hosted LLM backends and gives users extensive control over prompts, characters, conversation context, lore, interface behavior, and model-specific settings.
The application includes features such as visual-novel-style conversations, lorebooks and World Info, automatic translation, TTS, image generation through systems such as AUTOMATIC1111 and ComfyUI, mobile-friendly layouts, and a large extension ecosystem. SillyTavern itself does not provide model inference; instead, it acts as a configurable frontend connecting to whichever compatible local or remote backend the user chooses.
SillyTavern is especially popular with AI hobbyists, role-playing users, character-chat communities, and advanced users who want far more prompt and context control than typical hosted chat applications provide. It is designed to run locally, does not require powerful hardware unless the user also runs models locally, and emphasizes community development, privacy, and customization.
README
SillyTavern provides a single unified interface for many LLM APIs (KoboldAI/CPP, Horde, NovelAI, Ooba, Tabby, OpenAI, OpenRouter, Claude, Mistral and more), a mobile-friendly layout, Visual Novel Mode, Automatic1111 & ComfyUI API image generation integration, TTS, WorldInfo (lorebooks), customizable UI, auto-translate, more prompt options than you'd ever want or need, and endless growth potential via third-party extensions.
We have a Documentation website to answer most of your questions and help you get started.
What is SillyTavern?
SillyTavern (or ST for short) is a locally installed user interface that allows you to interact with text generation LLMs, image generation engines, and TTS voice models.
Beginning in February 2023 as a fork of TavernAI 1.2.8, SillyTavern now has over 300 contributors and 3 years of independent development under its belt, and continues to serve as a leading software for savvy AI hobbyists.
Our Vision
- We aim to empower users with as much utility and control over their LLM prompts as possible. The steep learning curve is part of the fun!
- We do not provide any online or hosted services, nor programmatically track any user data.
- SillyTavern is a passion project brought to you by a dedicated community of LLM enthusiasts, and will always be free and open sourced.
Do I need a powerful PC to run SillyTavern?
The hardware requirements are minimal: it will run on anything that can run NodeJS 20 or higher. If you intend to do LLM inference on your local machine, we recommend a 3000-series NVIDIA graphics card with at least 6GB of VRAM, but actual requirements may vary depending on the model and backend you choose to use.
Questions or suggestions?
Discord server
 | Join our Discord community! Get support, share favorite characters and prompts. |
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Or get in touch with the developers directly:
- Discord: cohee, rossascends, wolfsblvt
- Reddit: /u/RossAscends, /u/sillylossy, u/Wolfsblvt
- Post a GitHub issue
I like your project! How do I contribute?
- Send pull requests. Learn how to contribute: CONTRIBUTING.md
- Send feature suggestions and issue reports using the provided templates.
- Read this entire readme file and check the documentation website first, to avoid sending duplicate issues.
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Installation
For detailed installation instructions, please visit our documentation:
- Windows Installation Guide
- MacOS/Linux Installation Guide
- Android (Termux) Installation Guide
- Docker Installation Guide
License and credits
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
- TavernAI 1.2.8 by Humi: MIT License
- Portions of CncAnon's TavernAITurbo mod used with permission
- Visual Novel Mode inspired by the work of PepperTaco (https://github.com/peppertaco/Tavern/)
- Noto Sans font by Google (OFL license)
- Lexer/Parser by Chevrotain (Apache-2.0 license) https://github.com/chevrotain/chevrotain
- Icon theme by Font Awesome https://fontawesome.com (Icons: CC BY 4.0, Fonts: SIL OFL 1.1, Code: MIT License)
- Default content by @OtisAlejandro (Seraphina character and lorebook) and @kallmeflocc (10K Discord Users Celebratory Background)
- Docker guide by @mrguymiah and @Bronya-Rand
- kokoro-js library by @hexgrad (Apache-2.0 License)
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