AI Lab

AI Lab Build System

Craft your AI toolkit

Complete the quests below to unlock YaCy's AI sidekick: bind an inference engine, load production models, feed it with your index, then wire RAG and shields.

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Mandatory Needs setup

Bind an inference engine

Pick your host (Ollama, LM Studio, OpenAI-compatible) and give YaCy a place to send prompts.

Inference engine setup
Open engine setup
Set hoststub, API keys, and defaults to unlock downloads.
Mandatory Needs setup

Populate the Production Models Matrix

Assign models for chat, search, translation, and more. This is your loadout bench.

Model assignment preview
Go to Production Models Matrix
Deploy at least one model, then assign capabilities (chat, search-query, tooling, vision).
Optional Needs setup

Grow a search index

Create a local index for grounding: crawl a site or import a pack to give your AI facts to cite.

Index creation
Start a crawl Import an index pack
Indexed documents: 273,949 / 1,000 required to unlock (need at least 1000 documents).
Optional Needs setup

Wire RAG retrieval

Map which production models answer search-query and Q/A pairs so the RAG proxy can mix search with chat.

RAG configuration
Wire RAG prompts Test in Chat
Set the search-query and qapairs columns to connect retrieval to your chat flow.
Optional Needs setup

Define a shield

Add guardrails: access rates, grant or deny non-localhost access. Activate the front page link for chat to complete this quest.

Shield definition
Open shield settings
Store your shield directives (system prompts, stop words) as properties, then exercise them in chat.