Plugins overview
Four kinds of plugins extend a chat — behaviour tweaks, real tools, dial adjusters, and interactive UI.
A plugin is a small extension that lives inside a chat. Some plugins change how a character behaves; others give them real abilities (weather, calendar, dice); others add clickable buttons to the chat UI. They install in seconds, work with any character, and the best ones earn their creators a real revenue share.
Why plugins exist: the gap between "AI roleplay" and "interactive game" used to be huge. Plugins close it. Read the manifesto →
The four plugin types
| Type | What it does | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Prompt-injection | Adds invisible instructions to every reply | "Today's mood: melancholy" |
| Tool | Gives the character real data | Weather lookup, news, calendar |
| Tuning | Modular behaviour dials | "Steady mode" vs "Wild mode" |
| Interactive | Adds buttons/forms to the chat | Time skip, gift, dice roll |
1. Prompt-injection plugins
These quietly modify the character's behaviour by injecting instructions into the system prompt. No UI change, just a felt difference in how the character acts. Popular examples:
- Today's mood — "they're in a melancholy mood, slower to laugh"
- Please remember — "they always address you as 'kid'"
- Speech style — "they only ever speak in haiku"
- Setting patch — "the year is 2087 and Tokyo is underwater"
Max 5 active per chat (to prevent split-personality effect).
2. Tool plugins
These give the character a real ability they can invoke when relevant. Tool results appear as styled cards inside the conversation. Popular tools:
- Weather — they can actually check today's forecast for your city
- Calendar — they can read events from your calendar (with permission)
- News — they can fetch and react to recent headlines
- Movie/book lookup — accurate summaries instead of hallucinated ones
Tool plugins make the character grounded in actual data, not roleplaying having checked it.
3. Tuning plugins
Modular behaviour sliders without changing the character's identity. Think of them as personality switches:
- Steady mode — measured, on-topic, deliberate
- Wild mode — bold, takes risks, breaks the fourth wall
- Slow burn — pacing dialled down, longer scenes
- Brevity — replies kept short
You can stack tuning plugins. Slow burn + Brevity is short, deliberate replies.
4. Interactive plugins
These add real UI elements to the chat — buttons, cards, forms. The most-loved ones:
| Plugin | What it does |
|---|---|
| Time lapse | "1 hour later" / "next day" — jump the scene forward |
| Emote | 12 emotion buttons (smile, wince, laugh nervously) |
| Send a gift | A virtual gift card the character reacts to |
| Rock paper scissors | Play a round with them |
| Intimate action | Quick gestures (hold hand, lean in, kiss) |
| Diary entry | They write today's diary on the spot |
| Inner thoughts | What they were thinking but didn't say |
| Dreams | They describe what they dreamt last night |
| Letter | They write you an actual letter |
| Shared memory | They recall a moment from your history |
| Status card | Mood, location, current state — a one-card snapshot |
Some interactive plugins ship preinstalled (Peek into Mind, Time Lapse). Others you install from the marketplace.
Where plugins live
In any chat, tap the 🧩 plugins icon above the input. The panel shows:
- Active for this chat — currently injected/available
- Installed — your library, ready to enable
- Marketplace — browse community plugins to install
How plugins are billed
Almost all plugins are free to install and use. The few that incur cost (tool plugins making third-party API calls, for example) declare it upfront.
When a plugin is active on a chat, 5% of the credit cost of that chat's messages goes to the plugin author as commission. This is the foundation of the plugin economy — see Creating plugins.