README

AI Entries Assistant is a Statamic addon that provides a conversational AI assistant in the control panel. It uses Laravel AI and RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) powered by AI Entry Embeddings to answer questions hidden in your Statamic content.

How It Works

1. A user starts a conversation from the Statamic control panel.
2. The user's message is stored and the UserMessageAddedToConversation event is dispatched.
3. A queued listener invokes the EntriesAssistantAgent, which performs a similarity search against entry embeddings to find relevant content chunks.
4. The agent produces a Markdown-formatted answer based exclusively on the search results and stores it as an AI assistant message.
5. The response is delivered to the frontend via broadcasting (Laravel Echo) or polling fallback.

Requirements

• PHP 8.3+
• Statamic 6.0+
• PostgreSQL with the pgvector extension
• byte5/ai-entry-embeddings addon (installed automatically as a dependency)
• A configured AI provider via Laravel AI (e.g. Anthropic, OpenAI)

Installation

composer require byte5/ai-entries-assistant

Publish the configuration file:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=ai-entries-assistant-config

Run migrations (creates the ai_entry_assistant_conversations and ai_entry_assistant_messages tables):

php artisan migrate

Configuration

The configuration file is published to config/ai-entries-assistant.php.

AI Provider

By default the addon uses whatever provider is set in config('ai.default'). To use a different provider for the assistant, set it explicitly:

'provider' => 'anthropic',

Supported providers include Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, Ollama, Azure, DeepSeek, Groq, Mistral, OpenRouter, and XAI.

Queue

AI response generation runs on a queue. Configure which queue to use:

'jobs_queue' => 'default',

Broadcasting

Real-time message delivery uses Laravel Broadcasting. Disabled by default -- enable it via your .env:

AI_ENTRIES_ASSISTANT_BROADCASTING=true

When disabled, the frontend falls back to polling. You can also configure a separate queue for broadcast events:

'broadcasting_queue' => 'default',

Events

Broadcast events are sent to the conversation.{conversationId} private channel. Each user can subscribe only to their own private channel.

Control Panel

The addon registers a navigation item under AI Tools in the Statamic control panel. Access is gated by the access AI assistant permission.

License

This addon is open-sourced software licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0 (GPL-3.0). See LICENSE for details.