Getting Started#
This page takes you from nothing to your first generated image, then points at what to learn next.
Before you start, it is worth knowing what Eimi is: a hobby bot, run by one person on one graphics card at home. It is free, it is unofficial, and it goes down sometimes. Nothing about speed, availability or quality is promised. See About This Wiki.
Your first image#
Type this in any channel where Eimi is available:
/imagine prompt: a cat sitting on a keyboard
That is the only required parameter. Everything else falls back to your saved defaults, then to the model's own recommended values.
What you will see#
🕒 Queued-- your job is in line. One job runs at a time, because there is one GPU.- A progress bar -- a braille bar with a percentage and a rotating moon icon.
- The result -- the progress message is deleted and replaced by a new message with your image and a row of buttons.
The bar stopping around 93-97% is normal
The progress bar deliberately stops short and jitters before a finishing animation ticks it to 99%. It is not stuck. See Progress.
Your queue position is not displayed anywhere in Discord, and no time estimate appears on the card. If you want to know how busy the bot is, look at its Discord status.
The buttons under your image#
| Button | What it does |
|---|---|
| ⬆️ | Upscale it |
| 🔄 | Run it again with a new random seed |
| 🎲 | Open Remix to change settings and re-run |
| 🎨 | Edit the image with an AI model |
| ✨ | Detailer -- fix faces, eyes, hands, or apply hi-res fix |
| 🔍 | Details -- see exactly how it was made |
| 🗑️ / 📤 | Delete it, or post it publicly if it was private |
Anyone with bot access can press most of these, not just you. The person who clicks is the one whose settings apply and whose quota is charged. See The Result Card.
Set your defaults#
/settings
This opens a menu where you can set your default model, up to 4 LoRAs, aspect ratio, steps, CFG, output format, upscaler, and more. There is no save button -- every change saves immediately. Green means you have customized it, grey means it is still the default.
A parameter you type into a command always overrides the saved setting for that one job.
Public or private?#
How Eimi was installed decides whether your results are visible to others.
| Install type | Works in | Your results are |
|---|---|---|
| Guild install (added to the server) | That server | Public -- everyone sees them |
| User install (added to your account) | Any server, and DMs | Private -- only you see them |
Private results get a 📤 button to post them publicly. Public ones get a 🗑️ button to clean up. See Access and Visibility.
Picking a model#
The default is a good general-purpose choice, but the right model depends on what you are making:
| You want | Try |
|---|---|
| Anime and illustration | Illustrious or NoobAI |
| Photoreal images | Krea 2 |
| Readable text in the image | Ideogram 4 |
| Long descriptive prompts | Z-Image |
| Speed above all | /turbo |
Prompt style differs sharply between families -- tag lists for some, flowing prose for others. Read Prompting Tips before you fight with a model.
A few realities worth knowing early#
- Save what you like. Images are served from the machine that made them, and old ones stop loading eventually. Nothing here is a backup.
- Models come and go. The list in this wiki is a snapshot. Models get added and removed whenever the maintainer feels like it.
- The bot restarts often. If it stops responding mid-job, it is usually back shortly, and jobs in flight are normally recovered. See When Things Fail.
- Asking the maintainer is the whole support process. There is no ticket queue.
Where to go next#
- Prompting Tips -- how to write for each model family
- Parameters -- what steps, CFG, seed and denoise actually do
- Models -- the full catalog
- Command Reference -- everything the bot can do