MAICA Tips and Tricks

About "How to use":

1. Read the README page first.

2. About basic knowledges about MAS and submods, refer to wiki.monika.love.

3. We hope you can solve your own problems, they aren't that tough. If you do need online support, ask in DCC.

About "Why not work":

1. Blessland/Synbrace does not support system proxy, turn it off. If you are behind a proxy, use VPN, route or iptables instead.

2. An acceptable device and an acceptable environment is required. Blessland/Synbrace has to run on reliable platform and network.

3. Some possibly non-standard submods could break the SSL module of MAS, which Blessland/Synbrace heavily relies on. If you have other submods installed and MAICA doesn't work, try performing a clean install.

4. Probably due to the same reason as above, some other submods' modification on GRE and queue could cause topics of Blessland/Synbrace never appearing. Also consider performing a clean install in that case. This is identified only after Aug 2026, and root cause yet remains unknown.

5. Blessland/Synbrace was developed to compat the latest version of corresponding branch of MAS. You might have to wait for compatibility updates if MAS releases any major update. Compatibility is not guaranteed or supported for older versions of MAS.

6. Blessland/Synbrace relies on remote servers, so keep it up to date. You will see a notification on submods settings pane when your version is deprecated. Usability is not guaranteed or supported for older versions of submods.

7. There is a service status and update logs feed on the submods screen, showing the latest updates on MAICA backend (referred to as Illuminator). Note if service is under maintaince.

About performance:

1. Blessland provides many options, including most params Illuminator supports. Their simple introductions are in the tooltip, you can also refer to the API documentations.

2. Default settings are designed for best performance under most circumstances, and it might be changed in updates. Do not check enable advanced params unless you have to.

3. It's easy to understand that every option has its pros and cons. Make sure you understand it before you operate it.

4. As a project powered by LLM, MAICA cannot avoid those LLM shortcomings. Like the session could impact future performance, and model logical performance could decrease over session length. You should purge your session sometimes for better performance.

5. Reasonable input for reasonable output. E.g., during conversations, avoid typos, avoid questions deviating from characteristic, and avoid repetitive or low quality questions, to slow down sessions' corruption. Write letters of good literature and structure quality will also result in better replies. Also, calling her Monika or related nicknames is better than something unrelated.

6. Some functions of Blessland need manual setting, like the additional informations of MFocus_sfe. Those functions exist for a reason, not everything could be done by the model itself.

7. Longer your session is, slower will the model respond. You can adjust the session length limit to offset this effect.

8. Report issues with necessary logs, like submod_log.log. Debugging without logs is like driving without sight.

9. Finally something you must have acknowledged already: we cannot absolutely stop AI speaking nonsense, despite everything we did. You don't need to feedback if your issue is caused by model stupidity. We'll analyze your session to improve its performance in the future.

More details in this thread, I suggest to give it a read. Use a translator if you need.

All in all, we believe you don't need much professional knowledge to use Blessland and MAICA, but we have to write this document as implementation. We hope you can help yourself out on simple problems, but also feel free to ask if you have to.

This document can be updated in the future. Always refer to the latest version.