Add copilot chat plugin to leverage AI to answer user queries based on questions and answers
Author: hgaolCreated Jan 5, 2026Updated Aug 24, 2026
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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe
It's actually a proposal. I think it's very suitable to add AI ability to Apache Answer cause it's an QnA platform. I think we can implement it as a plugin but I'd like to put issue here for more audience. I've already done some POC, feel free to check below demo. Welcome any comments and discussions.
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/28a848f2-77ee-4dec-9ed3-9dd06c65f21e
Describe the solution you'd like
As showed in above demo.
There're also some changes needed in answer repo, e.g.
- supporting some plugin configs depend on others, and only show when it's a specific value.
- it could be a new plugin type, cause it needs pass the
syncerand add some REST API for chats.
If it's accepted, I can also implement these as well as this plugin itself.
Source: apache/answer