Agent is silent

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Check in order

  1. Is there a trigger name at all? This is the most common cause by a wide margin. On a fresh install nothing has been filled in yet — see the guide "AI Agent", section "How to set it up", which also covers how a message has to address the agent.
  2. Is the strAImer account signed in? Without it the agent has no key and stops before doing anything. The page says so at the top — the account is free and comes with 100 credits every month — and its Sign in button opens Account directly.
  3. Is it silent only some of the time? Then it may be answering exactly as configured — see the guide "AI Agent", section "What is normal here".

Donations do not get an answer

Most often nothing has been set up for them yet — see the guide "AI Agent", section "Donation responses".

Errors are only visible in the log

Apart from the sign-in notice above, the agent's page shows no errors. When the agent stops answering for a reason other than the ones above, the System Logs Console at the bottom of the app window is the only place the cause appears. The usual ones:

The answer was generated but never appeared in chat

The agent hands the reply to the platform connector. If the connector for that platform is off or not installed, the reply goes nowhere without a warning. Check that the target platform is connected under Connections → Channels.

On YouTube there is a second and likelier cause: the bot is not signed in for chat. YouTube keeps two separate things — the bot's account, which filling in the bot gives you, and a chat session, which is what sending actually needs. Without the session the connector refuses to send and writes "No bot session" in the log once per attempt, while the agent keeps generating answers nobody ever sees. Sign the bot in under Connections → Bots; the status panel in the sidebar marks such a bot as needing sign-in.

Changing settings did nothing

The agent keeps running with its previous state until it is restarted. Switching the module off and on again in Module Catalog applies the change; so does restarting the app.

Web search charges more than the label says

Web search costs 10 credits per search, not 1 — the label on that setting is wrong.