🤖 Nebi Chat

Chat with AI models directly from your Obsidian sidebar — completely free.

Provider Selection

Model Selection

✨ Features

• 🌐 Multi-provider support — Gemini, Groq, Cerebras, OpenRouter, and Ollama (local)
• 💸 Free tier friendly — No credit card required for any cloud provider
• ⚡ Streaming responses — Text appears word-by-word as the AI generates
• 💬 Chat history — Conversations persist across restarts (last 200 messages)
• 🎨 Theme-aware UI — Matches your Obsidian theme automatically
• 📝 Markdown rendering — Code blocks, lists, headings, and links rendered properly
• 📋 Text selection — Click-drag to select and copy portions of AI responses
• ⚙️ Configurable — Adjustable temperature and max tokens per response
• 🧵 Multiple threads — Create, switch, and delete conversations
• 📤 Export — Download chat history as markdown
• 🔍 Model discovery — Auto-fetches available models from each provider

📦 Installation

🏪 Community Plugin (Recommended)

1. Open Settings → Community Plugins
2. Search for "Nebi Chat"
3. Click Install, then Enable

🔧 Manual Installation

1. Download main.js, manifest.json, and styles.css from the latest release
2. Create a folder nebi-chat in your vault's .obsidian/plugins/ directory
3. Copy the three files into that folder
4. Enable the plugin in Settings → Community Plugins

⚙️ Configuration

1. Open Settings → Nebi Chat
2. Enter an API key for at least one provider (see free options below)
3. Select a provider and model from the dropdowns in the chat sidebar

🌐 Free API Providers

💳 No credit card is required for any of the cloud providers.

📖 Usage

1. 💬 Click the chat icon in the ribbon bar, or use the command palette
2. ✍️ Type your message and press Enter
3. 🔄 Switch providers with the dropdown menus
4. ⚙️ Adjust temperature and max tokens in Settings → Nebi Chat

🎯 Commands

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Here's how:

1. Fork the repository
2. Create a feature branch (git checkout -b feature/amazing-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add amazing feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/amazing-feature)
5. Open a Pull Request

🛠️ Development Setup

git clone https://github.com/Doffy4102/nebi-chat.git
cd nebi-chat
npm install
npm run dev     # Watch mode with hot reload
npm run build   # Production build

📁 Project Structure

src/
├── main.ts                  # Plugin entry point
├── types.ts                 # Data models and interfaces
├── icon-svg.ts              # Custom SVG icon constant
├── views/
│   └── ChatView.ts          # Main chat sidebar view
├── ui/
│   ├── ChatInput.ts         # Message input area
│   ├── ChatMessage.ts       # Message bubble renderer
│   ├── ConfirmModal.ts      # Reusable confirmation dialog
│   └── ProviderSelector.ts  # Provider/model dropdowns
├── services/
│   ├── ProviderManager.ts   # Provider orchestration
│   ├── StreamingParser.ts   # SSE stream parser
│   └── providers/
│       ├── BaseProvider.ts         # Base provider class
│       ├── GeminiProvider.ts       # Google Gemini
│       ├── GroqProvider.ts         # Groq
│       ├── CerebrasProvider.ts     # Cerebras
│       ├── OpenRouterProvider.ts   # OpenRouter
│       └── OllamaProvider.ts       # Ollama (local)
└── settings/
    ├── PluginSettings.ts    # Settings persistence
    └── AIChatSettingTab.ts  # Settings UI

🔒 Privacy

• 🔑 API keys are stored locally in your vault's data.json — never sent anywhere except the provider you configure
• 🚀 Messages are sent directly from your device to the chosen AI provider
• 🛡️ No data is collected, stored, or transmitted by the plugin itself
• 📋 Each provider's usage is subject to their respective terms of service

📄 License

MIT © doffy