Ask-AI reader assistant

An optional Ask AI assistant answers reader questions grounded in your docs, backed by a metered cloud gateway: a reader asks in natural language, and the answer comes from your published pages, citing the ones it used.

Turn it on with ai.assistant.enabled: true plus your public gateway key (aardvark_live_…), supplied at build time as the AARDVARK_KEY environment variable — never the secret key, which is why a build handed one aborts rather than baking it into a static site. Every answer is metered in real dollars against the account behind that key, so size the key’s spend cap to the exposure you accept; a :free model slug always answers at $0 if you want to run the panel without spending anything.