Using LibreChat in a corporate environment (Azure or self hosted)

[cbutler-captech]

Wanted to start a discussion around using LibreChat in a corporate environment and get some feedback around what others have done and what requests I am getting. Side note, after discussion, we are trying to avoid custom changes and would rather just find things we can add to the community. Forgive me if some of these are possible out of the box with just variables, here are some of the things that I am hearing:

Notes from sponsor:

• Ability to change the color scheme in a minor way, e.g. chaging primary/secondary color
• Ability to alter the wording on the new chat window (add corporate policies or links to them, what to do/not to do)
• Global Presets (perhaps a checkbox to make all admin presets show up) or a json file of global presets
• Global Prompt prefixes (ability to change all queries sent, perhaps add some notes on Tone and what to do if the info is not found)
• Limiting model choices to Roles in the AuthToken (I have this working locally into the API Layer), haven't surfaced the roles up to the Client)

My notes

• Azure Chat Completion Extensions (Ability to send a search endpoint, key and index and have the chat extension do the search serverside), negates the need to do a search beforehand. This returns citations. Would like to have a setting to enable by default in Azure without the user selecting a plugin, see Extensions at https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/openai/reference

[danny-avila]

Thanks for starting this discussion, I think others might agree here and other points! This is a good reference for what can be worked on

Azure Chat Completion Extensions (Ability to send a search endpoint, key and index and have the chat extension do the search serverside), negates the need to do a search beforehand. This returns citations. Would like to have a setting to enable by default in Azure without the user selecting a plugin

Didn't know about this, that's a great feature on Azure!

[cbutler-captech]

Some other items I thought of...

Ability to disable some plugins (the goal in the corporate world is to keep data isolated, so shipping docs to plugins may not be allowed)

[itrase]

I agree that it would be very useful to disable some (most) plugins - it would also be nice to simply select a few plugins to be always-installed and have a setting to disable the plugin store entirely.

Another feature that would be useful is a .env flag to prevent server-side deletion of conversations. Right now, if a user deletes a conversation in the UI, all the messages within that conversation are actually deleted from the MongoDB database. Often in a corporate setting, the messages should be kept in some sort of trash bin or deleted files section, and just hidden from the user.

[cbutler-captech]

I think the “correct” way to do this is logging them via API Management. Here is a great video on how to do it in azure… https://youtu.be/j40RGK5SAeY?si=41s0UCD5xo-flfAu

[miraeder]

Agree on disabling plugins, would really be a welcome addition to be able to disable certain plugins.
Since this is not implemented yet, have you found a way in the backend to remove specific plugins, e.g. by commenting certain parts or deleting or moving files?

[danny-avila]

@miraeder remove them from here: https://github.com/danny-avila/LibreChat/blob/main/api/app/clients/tools/manifest.json

and here: https://github.com/danny-avila/LibreChat/blob/main/api/app/clients/tools/.well-known

[eburnette]

Interested in this too. I think it would need a set of feature flags that would be controlled by a config file so it wouldn't be necessary to fork the project to make customizations.

[danny-avila]

Relevant discussion, although less corporate focus and more general customization: #1291

[eburnette]

For corporate use, they're going to want branding. Logo somewhere (top left?), color scheme, maybe a background image, and control of the wording and href of all links.

[kaikreuzer]

Ability to change the color scheme in a minor way, e.g. chaging primary/secondary color

I'd be interested in this as well - just trying my first basic steps of customization and having issues with it. I'm ok with building my own image for now, but I am struggling figuring out, where I would change the primary/secondary color. Is there already any simple way to do so?