The meta list of various bot making guides
https://rentry.org/botmaking_tips = A very short guide explaining the basics of card fields for people who have no idea where to start. Valid for any OAI/Claude model.
https://rentry.org/MothsBotMakingStuff = "In-depth botmaking guide focused on optimizing and pushing the limits of Turbo, much of the info is applicable to other platforms."
https://rentry.org/oaicards = "A little explanation with an example on how Silly reads a card, and some general tips on prompting AI."
https://rentry.org/TGCsCreativityGuide = "A short guide detailing the different kinds of creativity present in a bot and how to implement and improve them"
https://rentry.org/letsmakeabot = "A step-by-step process for beginners on how you could start making bots."
https://rentry.org/SillyT_Lorebook = "A how-to on Lorebooks. What they are, how to use them, with examples."
https://rentry.org/NG_CharCard = "Pointers for Creating Character Cards for Silly Tavern and other frontends"
https://rentry.org/AdvancedCardWritingTricks = "Can be considered an up-to-date guide on nearly every modern technique."
https://rentry.org/yabg = "possible connections between prompt engineering and botmaking"
https://rentry.org/pixiguide = "How to stop slopping, chapter one"
https://rentry.org/NG_Context2RAGs = "where to put information when you're building a card"
Supplementary reading materials
https://justpaste.it/9ofj1 = "List of Author's Note Phrases"
https://rentry.org/myclaudecantbethiscute = "how to make claude work for CGDCT style moeblob characters"
https://rentry.org/TURBOSHIT = "some quick shitty rentry about some turbo stuff I learned"
https://rentry.org/turbo_ft = "a small write-up guide on fine-tuning Turbo with some scripts to make the process easier and example cringe 'dataset'"
https://rentry.org/lobstersgpt = "a few tips and tricks I gathered from my experience with GPT4"
https://rentry.org/ClaudeWorldbooks = "Method for quickly creating world books via Claude\.ai or the API"
https://rentry.org/tomoyocard = "Visual novel in a card."
https://rentry.org/MakingA4chanSimCard = "Make your own 4chan sim"
https://rentry.org/vcewo = CoT guide, apparently stolen from /chag/
https://rentry.org/MistralMedium = "Random, unsorted notes about Mistral-Medium"
https://rentry.org/stscript = "dummy friendly guide on everything STscript"
https://rentry.org/slopmaking-advice = "Slopmaking advice"
https://rentry.org/gemini-qr = Gemini recommendations
https://rentry.org/how2claude = "How 2 Claude"
https://rentry.org/large-qr-revised = Mistral Large 2 recommendations
https://rentry.org/pay-the-piper-less = Prompt caching guide
https://rentry.org/prompt-caching-for-st = "how to optimize prompt caching"
https://rentry.org/common_botmaking_mistakes = "common botmaking mistakes"
https://rentry.org/deepseek-qr = Deepseek recommendations
https://rentry.org/marinaraspaghetti = "How to make Gemini good for RP/ERP"
https://rentry.org/CopiumDSv3STscripts = Deepseek CoT with STscript
https://rentry.org/gemini_filters = "Gemini 2.5 Pro Thinking, all about filters and more"
https://rentry.org/inline-expressions = "alternate way of doing expressions"
https://rentry.org/LLMAdventurersGuide = Adventuring guide
https://rentry.org/vector-storage-qr = "Vector Storage Quick Rundown"