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What Are Character Cards in SillyTavern and Why Are They Required?
A character card in SillyTavern is a collection of prompts that sets the behavior of the LLM, and it is required to have persiste…
Which SillyTavern branch should I use: release or staging?
Use the release branch unless you are deliberately testing new features and can tolerate breakage. According to the SillyTavern d…
What are the installation requirements for SillyTavern?
SillyTavern's own hardware bar is low: it runs on anything that can run NodeJS 20 or higher. The heavier requirement is separate …
Do I need anything besides SillyTavern to chat with an LLM?
Yes. SillyTavern is only a frontend interface — it does not include a model or provide inference itself. To actually chat, you ne…
What is SillyTavern (docs.ST.app)?
SillyTavern (ST) is a locally installed user interface for interacting with text-generation LLMs, image-generation engines, and T…