AI Chatbot for Eleventy Sites

Simplicity Is the Whole Appeal

Eleventy attracts people who got tired of tooling. The configuration is small, the build is fast, and adding anything that reintroduces complexity defeats the purpose.

A single HTML tag is about as simple as an addition gets. No plugin, no build hook, no config export — and removal is deleting the line.

Readers Ask What the Post Nearly Answered

Content sites answer questions in general and get asked about specifics. The post explains an approach; the reader wants to know whether it applies to their version, their setup, their case.

Answering that in the moment keeps the reader on the page and shows you which articles need a paragraph adding.

Output Is the Contract

Static site sources get restructured constantly: new collections, renamed folders, a switch of template language. Tools that read source break on all of it.

Reading the built output avoids that entirely, because the pages you publish are the thing readers and crawlers both consume.

Build Speed Is a Feature

Part of why Eleventy is pleasant is that builds finish quickly. Anything added to the build makes the feedback loop worse, which is felt on every save.

Because the assistant is fetched at runtime, build time is untouched. The development experience stays exactly as it was.

Personal Sites Need Zero Maintenance

A blog maintained in spare time cannot carry tools that need attention. Anything requiring upkeep quietly stops working and stays broken.

There is nothing to maintain here: no plugin version, no config, no dependency. Behaviour changes happen in a dashboard.