# Is there any built-in chatbot or conversational assistant available in Discourse?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-any-built-in-chatbot-or-conversational-assistant-available-in-discourse/409513
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** ai
**Created:** [7 augustus 2026 om 09:55 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-any-built-in-chatbot-or-conversational-assistant-available-in-discourse/409513 "2026-08-07T09:55:36Z")
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### Author:  [@Soumya\_Ranjan\_Mishra](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Soumya_Ranjan_Mishra)
#### Post date: [7 augustus 2026 om 09:55 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-any-built-in-chatbot-or-conversational-assistant-available-in-discourse/409513/1 "2026-08-07T09:55:36Z")
Hi everyone,
We’re exploring ways to improve the user support experience in our Discourse instance and wanted to understand whether Discourse provides any built-in chatbot or conversational assistant functionality.
Specifically, we’re looking for something that can:
- Answer users’ questions about forum features and navigation.
- Guide users to the appropriate categories or topics.
- Help users understand how to use different Discourse functionalities.
- Provide contextual assistance directly within the forum.
We are aware of **Discobot** , but from our understanding it is primarily intended for onboarding and interactive tutorials. We’re wondering if there is any built-in chatbot functionality beyond Discobot.
If anyone has implemented something similar, we’d appreciate hearing about your approach and any recommendations.
Thanks in advance!
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### Author:  [@RGJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RGJ)
#### Post date: [7 augustus 2026 om 10:06 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-any-built-in-chatbot-or-conversational-assistant-available-in-discourse/409513/2 "2026-08-07T10:06:19Z")
See [Discourse AI - AI bot](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-ai-ai-bot/266012) which uses personal messages to communicate.
For actual chat:
- There’s @merefield 's excellent [Chatbot plugin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-chatbot/256652)
- Also, we’ve built an external service that connects to the Discourse API and handles chats, then at the backend it uses an LLM and can do RAG on content in selected private or public categories. You can see it in action on for instance [https://swapd.co/](https://swapd.co/)
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### Author:  [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [7 augustus 2026 om 17:10 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-any-built-in-chatbot-or-conversational-assistant-available-in-discourse/409513/5 "2026-08-07T17:10:54Z")
> [@Soumya\_Ranjan\_Mishra](#):
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> - Answer users’ questions about forum features and navigation.
> - Guide users to the appropriate categories or topics.
> - Help users understand how to use different Discourse functionalities.
> - Provide contextual assistance directly within the forum.
All of these features are available through configuring Discourse AI, which is included by default on new Discourse installs…
- [Answer questions via message or chat](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ai-bot-chat-and-pm-integration/307353?silent=true)
- [Auto categorize](https://meta.discourse.org/t/auto-categorize-topics-using-ai/401827?silent=true) and [auto tag](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tag-topics-using-ai/401178?silent=true)
You can also enable a dedicated page for AI conversations using the plugin, which is how we power [ask.discourse.com](http://ask.discourse.com) — there’s more documentation available in [Discourse AI](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-ai/259214?silent=true) and in [Topics tagged ai](https://meta.discourse.org/tags/c/documentation/10/ai/543)
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### Author:  [@Soumya\_Ranjan\_Mishra](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Soumya_Ranjan_Mishra)
#### Post date: [10 augustus 2026 om 17:16 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-any-built-in-chatbot-or-conversational-assistant-available-in-discourse/409513/6 "2026-08-10T17:16:06Z")
We have our own self hosted API key of claude and GPT LLMs.. How can we configure this LLMs in our discourse AI. And also in the screenshot what we should add in the provider options if it is self hosted.
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### Author:  [@Soumya\_Ranjan\_Mishra](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Soumya_Ranjan_Mishra)
#### Post date: [11 augustus 2026 om 09:13 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-any-built-in-chatbot-or-conversational-assistant-available-in-discourse/409513/8 "2026-08-11T09:13:55Z")
can you help me with this??
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### Author:  [@satonotdead](https://meta.discourse.org/u/satonotdead)
#### Post date: [11 augustus 2026 om 11:27 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-any-built-in-chatbot-or-conversational-assistant-available-in-discourse/409513/9 "2026-08-11T11:27:21Z")
Good news! I kindly suggest you to search and read, all what you are looking for is already here 🙂
If you’re self-hosting, the configuration depends entirely on how you’re doing it and, specifically, on what you’re hosting; setting up Litellm is different from Ollama, Qwen or HuggingFace direct interferences.
If your endpoint is Open API compatible just choose Open AI and set your credentials / endpoint. You can saw the default LLMs created for a guide and/or check the specific documentation for the models and your proxy/provider to avoid guessing your settings.
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### Author:  [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [11 augustus 2026 om 11:49 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-any-built-in-chatbot-or-conversational-assistant-available-in-discourse/409513/11 "2026-08-11T11:49:15Z")
> [@Soumya\_Ranjan\_Mishra](#):
>
> can you help me with this??
You have a paid service level agreement?
If you become a business sponsor on GitHub I’ll be happy to assist you with Chatbot.
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### Author:  [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [11 augustus 2026 om 12:04 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-any-built-in-chatbot-or-conversational-assistant-available-in-discourse/409513/12 "2026-08-11T12:04:43Z")
If you need urgent professional help, also consider #Marketplace
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### Author:  [@Soumya\_Ranjan\_Mishra](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Soumya_Ranjan_Mishra)
#### Post date: [17 augustus 2026 om 11:21 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-any-built-in-chatbot-or-conversational-assistant-available-in-discourse/409513/13 "2026-08-17T11:21:21Z")
This is our end point: [https://genai-nexus.api.corpinter.net/openai/deployments/gpt-5.5/chat/completions?api-version=2024-10-21](https://genai-nexus.api.corpinter.net/openai/deployments/gpt-5.5/chat/completions?api-version=2024-10-21)
and this is our model : gpt-5.5
Can you help in configuring it?