Setup

Setup

Install

From the Community Plugins store

Once accepted: Settings → Community plugins → Browse → search "Real Chat" → Install → Enable.

Manual install

1. Download main.js, manifest.json and styles.css from the latest release.
2. Put them in <your vault>/.obsidian/plugins/real-chat/.
3. Reload Obsidian, then enable Real Chat under Settings → Community plugins.

First-run setup

1. Open Settings → Real Chat.
2. Choose a provider:
   • DeepSeek direct — cheapest, cache-aware pricing.
   • OpenRouter — one key, 300+ models (Claude, GPT, Gemini, …) with a live model list and per-model pricing.
   • Custom — any OpenAI-compatible base URL.
3. Paste your API key for the chosen provider. On OpenRouter, click Load / refresh models to pull the list, then star your favourites.
4. Open the sidebar from the ribbon (speech-bubble icon) or run the Open Real Chat command.

Picking a model

• Each session has its own model — set it from the model selector in the chat header.
• On OpenRouter, the list shows per-model pricing and marks multimodal (vision-capable) models, which can read images directly. For text-only models like DeepSeek, configure a separate Vision provider — see Vision & Images.

Where settings live

Your keys and live settings are stored in this plugin's local data.json inside the plugin folder. They are never sent anywhere except the provider they belong to. Don't commit data.json to a public repo.