# elizaOS Development Discord - 2025-02-13

## Overall Discussion Highlights

### Plugin Development & Issues
- Multiple users reported issues with the **sui-plugin**, particularly when trying to execute transfer actions
- Odilitime is working on a replacement for an unspecified component and plans to cut a **0.25.7 release**
- Several developers requested repository maintenance access for plugins:
  - BlockEater requested maintainer access for `plugin-omniflix`
  - robertyan requested maintenance for `plugin-near`
  - super requested maintenance for `plugin-multiversx`
- xingyen encountered red underline errors while creating a simple "helloworld" plugin following Shaw's tutorial
- A PR adding NEAR AI as a model provider to Eliza has been pending for over a week

### Agent Behavior & Configuration
- Users reported redundancy issues with Twitter automation where agents post similar content with different wording
- Discussion about how template variables like `{{topic}}` are populated in Twitter post templates
- Wahzammo successfully got an agent running from localhost as a Discord bot, though with some remaining issues

### Infrastructure & Deployment
- Discussion about VPS providers with Odilitime recommending Hetzner or OVH
- Questions about model selection for agents, with ℭ𝔦𝔭𝔥𝔢𝔯 recommending Ollama with llama3.2 for local testing
- Concerns about prompts causing problems with certain models, particularly small models and Anthropic models

### Project Management
- AltCoinAlpinist, a new contributor, sought guidance on where to start contributing
- Multiple comments about documentation gaps, especially for plugins
- Issue backlog described as a "free-for-all" without proper prioritization

## Key Questions & Answers

**Q: What are best bare metal VPS or dedicated servers with good price?** (asked by AD)  
A: Hetzner or OVH (answered by Odilitime)

**Q: What is the cheapest LLM you recommend for running an agent?** (asked by Bulldozer)  
A: "Cheapest LLM is anything interfaced via Ollama; I mostly use llama3.2 when I'm running a bunch of local tests" (answered by ℭ𝔦𝔭𝔥𝔢𝔯)

**Q: From where do we feed {{topic}} in the twitterPostTemplate?** (asked by 0xMAR$H)  
A: "It's randomly chosen from topic, composeState in runtime (in core) is where all the prompt tags live" (answered by Odilitime)

**Q: How to fix these red-underline errors?** (asked by xingyen)  
A: "Check `agent/package.json` they need to include the workspace for each of those plugins" (answered by Odilitime)

## Community Help & Collaboration

1. **Sui-Plugin Troubleshooting**
   - Helper: Odilitime
   - Helpee: xingyen
   - Context: Troubleshooting sui-plugin not working when trying to send SUI
   - Resolution: Odilitime analyzed the plugin structure and explained how examples and conversations work in the plugin

2. **LLM Selection & Twitter Usage**
   - Helper: ℭ𝔦𝔭𝔥𝔢𝔯
   - Helpee: Bulldozer
   - Context: Seeking advice on cheapest LLM for agents and Twitter usage
   - Resolution: Recommended Ollama with llama3.2 for local tests and provided tips for Twitter usage to avoid bans

3. **Twitter Redundancy Issues**
   - Helper: SotoAlt | BOSSU
   - Helpee: artzy
   - Context: Agent redundancy problems with Twitter posts
   - Resolution: Suggested deleting SQLite DB, trying different models, and adding more examples to character file

4. **Plugin Repository Management**
   - Helper: Odilitime
   - Helpee: BlockEater
   - Context: Needed PRs merged for OmniFlix plugin and registry
   - Resolution: Odilitime confirmed PRs were already merged and corrected the plugins registry repo URL

5. **Template Variable Implementation**
   - Helper: Odilitime
   - Helpee: 0xMAR$H
   - Context: Understanding where template variables like {{topic}} are populated
   - Resolution: Directed to check composeState in runtime.ts where prompt tags are managed

## Action Items

### Technical
- **Investigate and fix issues with sui-plugin functionality** (Mentioned by xingyen)
  - Multiple users reporting problems with the plugin not executing actions
- **Cut a 0.25.7 release** (Mentioned by Odilitime)
- **Correct reference to plugins registry repo** (Mentioned by Odilitime)
  - Should be https://github.com/elizaOS-plugins/registry
- **Review maintainer access requests** (Mentioned by BlockEater, robertyan, super)
  - For plugin-omniflix, plugin-near, and plugin-multiversx repositories
- **Review and merge PR adding NEAR AI as a model provider** (Mentioned by robertyan)
  - PR #3275 has been pending for over a week
- **Review PR #3506** (Mentioned by marsic)
- **Improve prompts for small models and Anthropic models** (Mentioned by Odilitime)
  - Current prompts causing problems with certain models
- **Address redundancy issues in Twitter automation** (Mentioned by artzy)
  - Agents posting similar content with different wording
- **Implement issue triaging/tagging process** (Mentioned by AltCoinAlpinist)
  - Issue backlog is currently a "free-for-all" without prioritization
- **Fix remaining issues with Discord bot agent running from localhost** (Mentioned by Wahzammo)
- **Ensure workspaces for plugins are properly included in agent/package.json** (Mentioned by Odilitime)

### Documentation
- **Update plugin-sui documentation** (Mentioned by xingyen)
  - Users cannot find adequate documentation for using the plugin
- **Comprehensive documentation update needed** (Mentioned by jin)
  - "so much to update in terms of docs..."
- **Create more setup-focused tutorials without heavy theory for agent development** (Mentioned by pelpa)
- **Check packages/core/src/runtime.ts for composeState implementation** (Mentioned by Odilitime)
  - To understand template variable population

### Feature
- **Consider developing K-line data analysis capability** (Mentioned by GW)
  - Request for functionality to analyze trading chart data