Creating your first bot

A bot in Mevichat is a configured AI chat agent — system prompt, model, knowledge sources, and appearance bundled together.

Bot settings

Name & slug — human-readable identifier and URL slug.

System prompt — the instructions that define bot personality and scope. Keep it focused: "You are a helpful customer support agent for Acme Corp. Only answer questions about our products."

Model — Mevichat Mini (Free), Claude Haiku / Sonnet (Pro+ BYOK), GPT-5 / GPT-5 Mini (Pro+ BYOK).

Temperature — 0 (deterministic) to 2 (creative). Default 0.7 works for most support cases.

Attaching knowledge

Knowledge sources give your bot factual grounding. Options:

URL (single page) — crawl a specific page
Sitemap — auto-crawl all pages from sitemap.xml
Upload — PDF, DOCX, MD, CSV, JSON (size limits per plan)
Manual — paste content directly

See Knowledge sources guide for details.

Testing in playground

Dashboard → Playground tab. Send test messages. Inspect:

Retrieved knowledge chunks (RAG traceability)
Tool calls (if bot uses tools)
Token cost per message

Publishing

Bots are live as soon as you embed the widget with the bot's public key. Revoke access anytime from API keys settings.

Best practices

Start narrow: one bot per use case (support, sales, internal docs)
Test with real user questions before going live
Review conversations weekly for gaps in knowledge