Interlude Chapter — How To Connect
Gemini models are available for free. Don't use OpenRouter. They have sussy wussy tactics of cutting out contexts in the middle, their version of the model is more censored, and it works slower. Honestly, don't use OpenRouter.
- Go to https://aistudio.google.com/.
- Log in via your Gmail account (no, I won't tell you how to create one, go figure that one out yourself, you're a big boy/girl/bean).
- Go to Get API Key tab.
- Click "Create API Key".
- Copy the API Key you got.
- Go to SillyTavern and choose the Connections tab (the one with the plug icon).
- Choose "Chat Completion" for API and "Google AI Studio" for Chat Completion Source.
- Paste your API Key and press "Connect".
- All done!
Chapter Two — Settings
Download latest best Gemini preset (Loggo's Preset) here:
1- Preset link: https://files.catbox.moe/oipneb.json
(✦Loggo's Preset✦(02.05.2025-))
How to download:
Go to Silly Tavern and import preset using the highlighted buttons (red squares) from image below.
After importing preset, click on this menu at the top bar:
Then, you'll see these fields like on the image below:
Delete everything inside these fields. They should look like this now:
Now, right below this, you'll see another section called "Context Formatting". Make sure you configure it exactly like this:
Now hit the "save" button:
WE'RE ALMOST DONE
Now scroll down again until you see this section called "Reasoning", and click "Reasoning formatting".
Then, you'll see this menu.
On that left highlighted field, write:
<cot>
On the right one, write:
</cot>
Now, make sure there's one blank line below the first <cot> and one blank line above the second </cot>
Like this:
Now, just make sure you configure it exactly like this, with the same checked blue circles:
Now, hit this button:
And then put a name for your save. I recommend naming it "CoT" or something similar, just so you remember what's this later. And then hit the "save" button.
After saving, click on this button on the top bar:
Make sure you have selected this exact model (best one)
Everything ready. Enjoy.