AI Chat Overview

AI Chat is a complete, modular AI application delivered as a single ServiceStack plugin. Registering ChatFeature mounts a full multi-provider Chat UI at /chat that runs inside your App's existing security boundary - using your App's users, your App's database and your App's file system.

What you get​

A connected AI workspace​

AI.Chat shares its native Vue ES-module interface with llms.py, backed by ServiceStack Identity, OrmLite, and App_Data. Continue from conversations into:

• Decision Studio: reusable typed decisions, probabilities, examples, and community recipes.
• Workspace Explorer and Git: file previews, diffs, commits, stashes, and controlled remote access.
• Projects: initialize or clone repositories, organize chat workspaces, reorder, and archive.
• ChatGPT Sign-In: eligible personal subscription chat with explicit consent.
• Saved Gemini imports: editable manifests, synchronized sources, and resumable uploads.
• Publishing: account-free static project exports, plus optional public conversations, projects, media, and worked decision recipes through share_llmspy.

The host controls permissions and transport policy; shared screens do not imply shared credentials.

Two plugins​

AI Chat ships as two independent plugins in the ServiceStack.AI.Chat package:

See Rendering PDFs to deploy production rendering on its own.

Architecture​

Everything in AI Chat above the hosting layer is an extension. The Chat UI is assembled at runtime from the Vue components each installed extension registers, and the server half of each extension owns its own routes, tools, tables and background workers.

services.AddPlugin(new ChatFeature {
    RequireAuth = true,
    DisableExtensions = ["computer"],   // remove a capability from server + UI together
    Tools = {
        EnableApiTools = true,          // on by default
        EnableFilesystemTools = false,  // off by default
        EnableCodeExecution = false,    // off by default
    },
});

A disabled extension registers no routes, no tools and no UI components. See Extensions for the full list and Custom Extensions for adding your own.

Where state lives​

Nothing is stored outside your application. See Data & Storage.

Security posture​

See Integrated Auth.

Next steps​