TavernAI

TavernAI is an atmospheric frontend for chat and storywriting, compatible with many backends!

This is legacy repository. TavernAI 2 is available here https://github.com/TavernAI/TavernAI

Screenshots: <br><img src="readme/1.png" height="200" />

<img src="readme/4.png" height="200" /><img src="readme/5.png" height="200" />

Download: <br>

• <a href="https://github.com/TavernAI/TavernAI/archive/refs/heads/main.zip" target="_parent"><img height="20" width="auto" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/TavernAI/TavernAI/main/public/img/five.png" alt="TavernAI"/> TavernAI</a><b> -> Requires -> </b><img height="20" width="auto" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/TavernAI/TavernAI/main/readme/nodelogo.png" alt="Node.js®"/><a href="https://nodejs.org/dist/v21.3.0/node-v21.3.0-x64.msi">Node.js®</a>
• <img height="20" width="auto" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/TavernAI/TavernAI/main/public/img/five.png" alt="TavernAI"/> Windows .exe version<br>

Run online:

• TavernAI on Google Colab <br><a href="https://colab.research.google.com/github/vrihatgan/TavernAI/blob/main/colab/colab.ipynb" target="_parent"><img height="42" width="auto" src="https://colab.research.google.com/assets/colab-badge.svg" alt="Open In Colab"/></a><br>The option for phones or tablets.<br>

Links:

• TavernAI on Boosty - Support the project!
• TavernAI Discord - Meet the community!

Features

• Character creation
• Online character database
• Group chat with multiple characters at the same time
• Story mode
• World info
• Message swiping
• Configurable generation settings
• Configurable interface themes, including one that resembles CharacterAI
• Configurable backgrounds, including beautiful defaults to select from
• Edit, delete, and move any message
• GPT and Claude picture recognition

How to install

1. Download and install: Node.js Please tick the box in the installer for "Additional Build-Tools" and answer Yes to All when the tools install script asks. <br>For Win7x64SP1, Wndows 10+, MacOS, as well as Linux(Source) and Debian/Ubuntu(Binaries)
2. Download TavernAI

Then:

• On Windows: Start TavernAI by running Start.bat
• On Linux: Start TavernAI by running start-linux.sh
• On other OSes: Run npm install to install dependencies, then run node server.js to start the server

For detailed instructions on how to setup TavernAI with KoboldAI or NovelAI:

• KoboldAI
• NovelAI

Supported Backends

• Kobold series (KoboldAI, KoboldCpp, and Horde)
• Oobabooga's Text Generation Web UI
• OpenAI (including ChatGPT, GPT-4, and reverse proxies)
• NovelAI
• Claude
• Ollama

Tips

Use this button to edit the message:

<img src="readme/3.png" width="600"/>

If the message is not finished, you can simply send the request again, or say "continue", depending on the model. It should understand that you want to continue the message.

<img src="readme/2.png" width="600"/> <img src="readme/6.png" width="600"/>

Additional materials

• paniphons's guide to text generation

Contact

Humi (the original developer):

• Discord: Humi#5044 <br><br><br>