Also worth noting, the Kagi assistant is now available to all paid Kagi users. This gives you conversational chat with a few ChatGPT models, Gemini, Llamas, Nova, Deepseek, and other.

https://kagi.com/assistant

Additional details on the blog post about it.

https://blog.kagi.com/assistant-for-all

> https://kagi.com/assistant

Its subtly annoying that assistant.kagi.com doesnt work but translate.kagi.com does

We heard you!

Still doesn’t work for me.

This is one of my favourite features. The UX is so god damn simple that it makes switching to an AI response so ridiculously trivial, I love it.

!code will get you into the proper code assistant.

I'd love it if it supported custom assistants though.

For example, !joost (the name of my AI language tutor)

Edit: I got this working.

What do you mean by custom assistants because you can make your !<word> assistants with your own prompt and the model of your choice.

Do you want !joost to hit and endpoint of your choosing?

No, I was looking in the wrong place in the settings: "search" > "advanced" > "custom bangs". I see now you can assign a bang directly when you make a custom assistant. Very handy!

From https://kagi.com/assistant you can also click on the down "Model Dropdown Chooser" and there is an entry to make your own assistants.