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Session Helpers

Four bundled plugins add small conveniences to a session: questions, release notes, date and time, and a status line.

Administrators manage them in Settings → Plugins; select a plugin to open its detail view and settings. Each of the four can be disabled on its own and none needs an individual user grant. A change applies after Chetty restarts.

Plugin What it adds
askuser Structured questions that ask you to choose or type an answer.
changelog The What's new page with release notes.
runtime-context The current date, time, timezone, sender and conversation type for each turn.
statusline Optional session details below the conversation.

For installing plugins and managing their permissions, see Plugins.

DocsSearch is a built-in tool that searches the user manual, the developer guides and the documentation shipped by installed plugins. Ask Chetty about a feature or setting and it looks the answer up instead of guessing.

With an embedding model configured, it searches by meaning and by keyword together, so it answers straight away even while the documentation index is still being prepared in the background. Without a model it matches keywords.

Admin: DocsSearch is granted per account under Users → Tools, like every other built-in tool. New accounts start with no tools until an administrator grants them.

Status line options

The statusline plugin shows session details below the conversation in the web UI and in elowen chat. Every option is off by default; turn on the ones you want: model, context usage, total tokens, speed, cache hit and cost.

Read Status Line for what each option shows and where to switch it on.

Date and time setting

The runtime-context plugin gives every turn the current date, time, timezone, sender and conversation type, so Chetty knows when it is acting and for whom. Its one setting is Timezone, an IANA zone such as Europe/Prague; leave it empty to use the server's zone.

The zone applies to the whole assistant, including scheduled jobs: a job set to daily 07:30 runs at 07:30 in that zone. Read Date, Time and Conversation Context for the setting and what else Chetty is told.