> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://chungushub.mintlify.site/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# ChungusHub

> A self-hosted workspace for long-form roleplay.

ChungusHub is a local-first, privacy-focused LLM frontend for roleplay. Characters, lorebooks and personas use SillyTavern's formats, so most existing libraries should import without trouble.

A chat is a tree rather than a line, so an edit or a regeneration branches instead of overwriting, and the story map lets you find your way around it.

## Start here

<CardGroup cols={3}>
  <Card title="Installation" icon="download" href="/installation">
    Get ChungusHub running on your machine.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Quickstart" icon="play" href="/quickstart">
    Connect a provider and open your first story.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Coming from SillyTavern" icon="file-import" href="/coming-from-sillytavern">
    Bring your characters, personas, lorebooks and chats across in one pass.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## What's inside

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  <Card title="Chats that branch" icon="git-branch">
    Take a scene somewhere else without starting a second chat. Every version you
    wrote stays where it was, and the Story Map shows you where the story split.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Chat memory" icon="brain">
    Older turns fold into summaries so a long story stays inside its budget. Step
    onto another branch and the memory that comes with it is that branch's.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Lorebooks" icon="book">
    Standalone, shareable world info with scan triggers, recursion and a token
    budget. Reads and writes SillyTavern's format.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Chungus Assistant" icon="sparkles">
    An assistant that acts on the workspace itself: edit a character, add a lorebook
    entry, explain a setting and take you to it. You see what it is about to do
    before it runs.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Prompt Builder" icon="wrench">
    Compose the prompt from ordered, toggleable items. Every item shows what it
    resolves to and what it costs in tokens.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Connections" icon="radar">
    Several providers side by side, each with its own model and settings, and each
    part of the app pointed at whichever one you want.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## On SillyTavern

ChungusHub owes SillyTavern more than a mention. I built it as a SillyTavern user, out of things I admired there and things I wanted to see work another way. It speaks SillyTavern's formats because that is the library people already have, mine included until I moved fully to ChungusHub.

This project is **not** a fork of SillyTavern and shares none of its code.

If you are arriving with one, [bring it across](/coming-from-sillytavern).

<Note>
  ChungusHub is pre-release and under active development. Expect breaking changes
  until the first tagged version.
</Note>