Create a small team of AI bots inside BB.
Each bot has its own name, instructions, model provider, model, and reasoning level. Create a bot once, give it a clear job, and use it whenever you need it without repeating the same instructions every time.
Your writing bot can stay focused on clear writing. Your research bot can use a different model. Your coding bot can use the model and reasoning level that works best for code.
A fleet of bots in the BB sidebar — each with its own instructions, provider, model, and reasoning level.
I like custom GPTs and Grok bots because they let you create a reusable persona for a specific job. But they are tied to one model provider.
BB gives you more control. You can create your own bots, keep their instructions in one place, and choose the provider and model for each one.
This plugin brings those two ideas together:
- reusable bots with a clear purpose
- your own instructions for every bot
- a different model provider or model for different kinds of work
- a familiar chat experience inside BB
The goal is simple: build a personal fleet of bots that work the way you work.
With Bots, you can:
- create bots for writing, research, coding, planning, reviews, or any repeatable work
- give every bot its own instructions and personality
- choose a provider, model, and reasoning level per bot
- connect a bot to a project when it needs repository context
- keep bots without a project for everyday conversations
- create drafts before making a bot available to chat with
- keep chat history as normal BB threads
A bot is not a separate chat app. It lives in BB and uses BB's existing thread, composer, attachment, archive, and delete experience.
Install from the BB Community marketplace:
bb plugin install botsInstall directly from this repository:
bb plugin install git:https://github.com/prakashchokalingam/bb-plugin-bots.gitRequires BB >=0.39.0.
- Open Bots from the BB sidebar.
- Click New bot.
- Give the bot a name and write its instructions.
- Choose its provider, model, and reasoning level.
- Optionally select a project if the bot should work with a repository.
- Click Publish.
- Start a chat.
New bots start as drafts. Publish stays disabled until the bot has a name, a provider, and a model.
For example, you could create:
| Bot | What it does |
|---|---|
| Writing partner | Rewrites messages in clear, natural English |
| Code reviewer | Reviews pull requests using your team's standards |
| Research assistant | Investigates a topic and gives a sourced summary |
| Product thinker | Helps turn rough ideas into product decisions |
| Personal assistant | Handles your everyday planning and notes |
Every bot has its own saved instructions. When you start a chat with that bot, those instructions are applied automatically for that conversation.
You can edit a bot at any time. Changes apply to future chats; an active chat keeps the instructions it started with.
Bots can be connected to a BB project, but they do not need to be. A project gives the bot access to repository context. A bot without a project is useful for writing, thinking, planning, and other general conversations.
The provider, model, project, and reasoning level are used as defaults when you start a chat. You can still change them before sending the first message.
New bots start as drafts. This gives you space to set up their instructions, provider, and model before using them.
A draft cannot start a chat until it has:
- a name
- a provider
- a model
Once published, the bot is ready to use from the Bots sidebar.
Bot chats are normal BB threads. You can open them, archive them, delete them, and find them in the sidebar like any other BB conversation.
Deleting a bot does not delete its existing chats. Those chats stay available, but they no longer receive that bot's instructions.
bb plugin install .
bb plugin dev
bb plugin logs bots -f
npm test
npm run typecheckMIT