files/emacs: make gptel more daily-drivable

I'm now at the stage of consciously stopping myself from opening the
web interfaces and asking via gptel which is nice actually

1 files changed, 32 insertions, 14 deletions

diff --git a/epistemia/files/emacs/.config/emacs/init.el b/epistemia/files/emacs/.config/emacs/init.el
index 68ac223..d0f0b1e 100644
--- a/epistemia/files/emacs/.config/emacs/init.el
+++ b/epistemia/files/emacs/.config/emacs/init.el
@@ -545,33 +545,51 @@
 ;;;;;;;;;
 ;; LLM ;;
 ;;;;;;;;;
+(defun vin/gptel-mode-auto ()
+  "Ensure that this file opens with `gptel-mode' enabled."
+  ;; taken from https://github.com/karthink/gptel/wiki/Auto%E2%80%90restore-gptel%E2%80%90mode-in-chat-buffers
+  (save-excursion
+    (let ((enable-local-variables t))  ; Ensure we can modify local variables
+      (if (and (save-excursion
+                 (goto-char (point-min))
+                 (looking-at ".*-\\*-")))  ; If there's a -*- line
+        ;; First remove any existing eval, then add the new one
+        (modify-file-local-variable-prop-line
+          'eval nil 'delete))
+      ;; Always add our eval
+      (add-file-local-variable-prop-line
+        'eval '(and (fboundp 'gptel-mode) (gptel-mode 1))))))
+
 (use-package gptel
   :after age ; because of ~/.authinfo.age
   :config
-  (gptel-make-openai "llama-swap"
-    :protocol "http"
-    :host "llm.demiurge.epistemia"
-    :endpoint "/v1/chat/completions"
-    :stream t
-    :models '(Qwen3.5-27B
-              Qwen3.5-35B-A3B
-              Rocinante-X-12B-v1
-              Ministral-3-14B-Instruct-2512))
+  (setq gptel-backend
+        (gptel-make-openai "llama-swap"
+          :protocol "http"
+          :host "llm.demiurge.epistemia"
+          :endpoint "/v1/chat/completions"
+          :stream t
+          :models '(Qwen3.6-27B
+                    Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
+                    Gemma4-26B-A4B
+                    Gemma4-31B)))
+  (setq gptel-model 'Qwen3.6-35B-A3B)
   (gptel-make-openai "OpenRouter"
     :host "openrouter.ai"
     :endpoint "/api/v1/chat/completions"
     :stream t
     :key (auth-source-pick-first-password :host "openrouter.ai")
-    :models '(minimax/minimax-m2.7
-              minimax/minimax-m2.5:free
-              anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6))
+    :models '(moonshotai/kimi-k2.6
+              deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro))
   :custom
-  (gptel-model "llama-swap:Qwen3.5-35B-A3B")
+  (gptel-default-mode #'org-mode)
+  (gptel-response-prefix-alist '((org-mode . "**** Response\n")))
   (gptel-temperature nil)
   (gptel-directives
    '((default . "You are a large language model living in Emacs and a helpful assistant. Respond concisely.")
      (programming . "You are a large language model and a careful programmer. Provide code and only code as output without any additional text, prompt or note.")
-     (writing . "You are a large language model and a writing assistant. Respond concisely."))))
+     (writing . "You are a large language model and a writing assistant. Respond concisely.")))
+  :hook (gptel-save-state . vin/gptel-mode-auto))
 
 (use-package gptel-agent
   :after gptel