SillyTavern Support

TomoriBot can import two things from SillyTavern that you may already have: Prompt Manager presets (how the prompt is laid out) and character cards (the character itself). This is a niche feature for ST users, so if you’ve never used SillyTavern, you can skip this page.

Character Card Import

Bring an existing SillyTavern character straight into Discord with /persona import. It accepts:

PNG cards with embedded chara / char metadata,
v2-style JSON cards (root-level name, description, first_mes, …),
v3 JSON cards (spec: "chara_card_v3" with a nested data object),
.charx archives (Character Card V3, the format card sites hand out by default).

A .charx file is a zip whose card.json holds the character. TomoriBot reads that card and ignores everything else in the archive: bundled icons, emotion sprites, audio, and video are not imported, and the import reply says so. Set an avatar with /server avatar and add sprites under /config > Persona > Sprites.

If the file has no TomoriBot metadata but is a valid ST v2/v3 card, import automatically runs it through the SillyTavern conversion flow. You can also feed a card to /persona generate to transform it into a fresh persona.

Imports pass through a validation schema before anything is saved (default caps: 5,000 characters per string, 200 attributes, 100 sample dialogues per side, 100 trigger words; self-hosters can tune the PRESET_MAX_* env vars). Archive reads are separately bounded by the MAX_CHARX_* env vars, because an archive’s compressed size says nothing about what it expands to. For the exact conversion and field mapping, see the card-support architecture.

Prompt Presets

A SillyTavern Prompt Manager preset controls the layout of the prompt. Use /config > Plugins

SillyTavern Presets to import presets, inspect enabled nodes, switch between presets, or return to the normal layout.

What a Preset Controls

Prompt order and marker placement
Custom prompt nodes
Post-history / depth-injection nodes
Which imported nodes start enabled or disabled

What It Does Not Replace

A preset owns the layout, not every source of text. These still exist alongside it:

Your system/persona blocks: /config > Engine > General, /config > Persona > Advanced, the attribute and sample-dialogue actions on /config > Persona > Identity & Personality.
Live chat history and retrieved document context.
TomoriBot’s automatic context: server memory, emoji/sticker context, users-in-conversation, short-term memory, conditioning, and similar blocks.

How Native Blocks Map

main → the current system prompt (/config > Engine > General, else the built-in fallback)
charDescription → /config > Persona > Advanced
charPersonality → /config > Persona > Identity & Personality
dialogueExamples → /config > Persona > Identity & Personality
chatHistory → live channel history
worldInfoBefore / worldInfoAfter → retrieved document context (not ST lorebooks)

System Prompt Rule

While a preset is active, the built-in fallback system prompt is removed, but if you set your own with /config > Engine > General, it’s still sent.

Compatibility Notes

Common surprises when a preset seems ignored:

Imported ≠ sent: nodes disabled in prompt_order stay off until you enable them with /config > Plugins > SillyTavern Presets. Comment-only and empty nodes are never sent; unknown markers are skipped.
Order is literal: placing chatHistory before dialogueExamples sends live chat first.
Post-history/depth injections merge into existing chat-history entries rather than becoming standalone messages; multiple nodes at the same depth are batched.
Regex post-processing, preset-side temperature/top-p/model overrides, and layered presets are not supported. Legacy text-completion presets import through a best-effort path that drops ST-only blocks (scenario, anchors, stop strings, …).

In /help, choose Integrations, then SillyTavern Presets, for the in-Discord reference. For the import engine internals, see the preset-system architecture.