Why “Swayam”?

Swayam (स्वयं)—an ancient Sanskrit word meaning “self.” Your content. Your knowledge. Autonomously intelligent.

Swayam AI Chatbot is a WordPress plugin that provides an intelligent chatbot powered by Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) technology. It indexes your WordPress content and uses AI to answer visitor questions based on your actual posts, pages, and custom post types.

Features

RAG-Powered Q&A – Answers questions using your actual WordPress content as context
Automatic Content Indexing – Syncs posts, pages, and custom post types to a vector database
Auto-Sync on Publish – Automatically updates the index when content is published, updated, or deleted
Customizable Chat Interface – Use the shortcode or floating widget
Admin Dashboard – Easy configuration with connection testing
REST API – Programmatic access to the chatbot
Rate Limiting – Built-in protection against spam

Shortcode Usage

Embed the chatbot on any page or post:

[swayam_ai_chatbot]

With custom attributes:

[swayam_ai_chatbot title="Ask about our products" placeholder="What would you like to know?"]

External Services

This plugin connects to the following external services:

Ollama (Required)
This plugin requires a running Ollama instance to generate embeddings and chat responses using the Llama 3.2 model.

Ollama website: https://ollama.com/
Ollama Privacy Policy: https://ollama.com/privacy
Ollama Terms of Service: https://ollama.com/terms

Ollama runs locally on your server or a server you control. No data is sent to third-party cloud services unless you configure it to connect to a remote Ollama instance.

Elasticsearch (Required)
This plugin requires an Elasticsearch instance to store vector embeddings and perform semantic search.

Elasticsearch website: https://www.elastic.co/elasticsearch/
Elastic Privacy Policy: https://www.elastic.co/legal/privacy-statement
Elastic Terms of Service: https://www.elastic.co/legal/elastic-license

Elasticsearch can run locally on your server. If using Elastic Cloud, your indexed content will be stored on Elastic’s servers according to their privacy policy.

Data Transmitted
* To Ollama: Post content for embedding generation, user questions for response generation
* To Elasticsearch: Post content, titles, excerpts, URLs, and vector embeddings