SillyTavern weekly news: Seven days of morning briefings compiled so you don’t have to scroll Reddit at 4am. You’re welcome.
The SillyTavern weekly news of April 20 to 27, 2026 was a big one if you live and breathe model releases and community drama. DeepSeek V4 dropped with a flashier little brother. Z.AI kept everyone in a permanent state of confusion about whether their legacy coding plans were about to get gutted. Kimi K2.6 launched and divided the room like every Kimi release does. And underneath all the noise, the SillyTavern GitHub ship stayed steady with critical bug fixes and a shiny new model on the approved list.
I moved off GLM. For anyone who’s been following along, that probably lands like a small betrayal. GLM was my go-to for a long time. It’s the model I built the article on Stab’s Directive Hierarchy around. I said I was a GLM simp in that article, and I meant it.
I’m not including my own tools/extensions here. This list showcases community extensions built by their incredible developers.
The Curse of Choices
Choices are a good thing, and choices are beyond plentiful in the world of SillyTavern extensions! The best SillyTavern extensions 2026 has to offer a new user is staggering. This is a fast-growing community, with a ton of helpful plugins out there. That being said, the resources for these kinds of things are a bit slim. They’re mostly relegated to the odd reddit post or some other corner of the internet (which is the whole reason I started RP|Fiend in the first place). So I thought it would be beneficial to do a little round-up of some extensions I found very useful. I may have already written an article on them, which I’ll link accordingly if you want to read more. Also, keep in mind that this is a list of extensions I’ve personally tried. If one of your extensions isn’t listed here, it doesn’t make it any less incredible or useful! Without further ado, let’s jump right into the best SillyTavern extensions 2026 has!
So, here I am again. I find it somewhat inconvenient to build new character cards. Most platforms have a built-in editor, and some of them don’t. As a full-time simpleton, I need something easy to use, convenient, and full-featured. Most importantly, NOT tied to a platform. There’s plenty of AI character card tools out there, but I, (yours truly), decided to take a jab at it, as I found them a little lacking in some of the features I was seeking. As such, I am pleased to present you with…
The Grimoire!
What is The Grimoire, exactly?.. I shan’t conceal it any longer!
What Is It?! Another AI Character Card Editor?!
..Ahem. The Grimoire is a free (free indeed!), browser-based AI character card editor I made. So no downloading, no installing, and nothing to setup or configure. It’s designed to be field by field, iteratively, with structure.
It supports V3 spec and exports both PNG and JSON, so don’t worry about what platform you’re using. As long as it’s able to read a standard-format character card, you’re golden. It’s not designed to be just a SillyTavern character card editor, even if that is my primary platform.
I designed it to be less of a generator, and more like a proper authoring environment. Character cards can be a personal thing, and I think that’s cool. I wanted the AI to actually assist, not takeover. Hence, any prompts sent are context-aware; factoring and inferring from the information you’ve already provided in other fields. It’s a pretty complete AI character card tool, with more planned.
The Curse of… No, Wait! The Blessings are upon us!
On a day such as this, one could not have expected better news. Z.AI has announced that, over the next few weeks, GLM-5 should be made available to all lite users.
The email. Fresh and real. You can almost taste it.
I’m excited to experience the improvements GLM-5 has made over 4.7. The team at Z.AI has made note of the immense RP community behind their LLM, and have taken steps to cater to that community as well. Specifically, improvements on long-text consistency and complex character developments were noted. When I was reading some reddit posts on it, some users remarked how impressively natural the dialogue felt compared to GLM 4.7.
GLM-5 is a 744B MoE model, and creative writing is a noted improvement area over GLM-4.7. NC Bench scores GLM-5 at 83–88% on prose quality across fantasy, horror, literary fiction, and mystery scenarios, measuring things like avoiding passive voice, weak dialogue tags, and AI-isms. That’s a meaningful jump for immersive RP output. – Perplexity
I’m a big GLM fan, but I’m also a big saving money fan (as we all know, tokens cost money)! Z.AI’s Lite subscription is an incredible bang-for-your-buck, and is a great LLM for roleplaying purposes. It’s actually my go-to, and I’m still rocking GLM 4.7 daily. The announcement is a most joyous one, and I’ll be releasing content catered towards GLM-5 over the coming weeks as I get an opportunity to experiment further with the LLM.
SillyTavern WorldInfo Recommender is one of my most used tools. As your stories continue to expand in the world of SillyTavern, you’re going to want something that is going to aid in streamlining the process of creation. Thinking, creating, and manifesting new ideas can be exhausting (especially when you’re out of ideas!). Tools, such as lorebooks, help us implement and keep track of these new and old details. They feed the relevant information the our LLMs so that they can weave the tale. For some, creating and updating a lorebook is one of the more intensive things you can do in SillyTavern. It can be tiring to constantly decide things such as: What’s important? What’s relevant? What’s a key detail? So on, and so on. At times, we want to be able to just partake in the story while maintaining a hands-off approach. This is where WorldInfo-Recommender by bmen25124 comes in.
Qvink Memory and Why SillyTavern Summarize Extension Simply Isn’t Enough
When I first started using SillyTavern, I was truly taken aback by the number of options presented to the user compared to the broader market of AI-Chatbot websites. The flexibility of being able to tweak almost every single aspect of your experience is something that very little services offer (One of the closer ones being DreamGen). However, as my stories grew larger, and my tokens grew heftier (As will yours!), I began to research ways in which I could cut back on my tokenization in order to preserve my context. That’s when I discovered a third-partySillyTavern message summarize extension by qvink, called MessageSummarize. It has proven to be an invaluable tool when it comes to preserving memory over long, bigger-than-life narratives. Below are some brief explanations, as well as an in-depth guide to getting started. Let’s begin!
