Feature Editions 🟡 BETA

General Bots offers flexible feature configurations to match different deployment needs. Features can be enabled at compile time using Cargo feature flags or selected through pre-configured edition bundles.

Edition Overview

Minimal Edition

Use Case: Embedded systems, IoT devices, testing environments

Cargo Feature: minimal

cargo build --features minimal

Included Features

• ✅ UI Server (web interface)
• ✅ Basic chat functionality

Not Included

• ❌ Console TUI
• ❌ File storage
• ❌ Task management
• ❌ Email
• ❌ LLM integration
• ❌ Vector search

Typical Deployment: Raspberry Pi, edge devices, containerized microservices

Lightweight Edition

Use Case: Small teams, startups, personal use

Cargo Feature: lightweight

cargo build --features lightweight

Included Features

• ✅ UI Server
• ✅ Chat
• ✅ Drive (file storage)
• ✅ Tasks
• ✅ Redis caching

Not Included

• ❌ Email integration
• ❌ Calendar
• ❌ Video meetings
• ❌ Compliance tools
• ❌ Multi-channel messaging

Typical Deployment: Small office server, developer workstation

Core Edition (Default)

Use Case: General business operations, mid-size teams

Cargo Feature: default (or no feature flag)

cargo build
# or explicitly:
cargo build --features default

Included Features

• ✅ UI Server
• ✅ Console TUI
• ✅ Chat
• ✅ Automation (Rhai scripting)
• ✅ Tasks (with cron scheduling)
• ✅ Drive
• ✅ LLM integration
• ✅ Redis caching
• ✅ Progress bars
• ✅ Directory services

Not Included

• ❌ Email (IMAP/SMTP)
• ❌ Calendar management
• ❌ Video meetings
• ❌ Vector database
• ❌ Compliance monitoring
• ❌ Multi-channel (WhatsApp, Teams, etc.)
• ❌ NVIDIA GPU support
• ❌ Desktop application

Typical Deployment: On-premise server, cloud VM, container

Standard Edition

Use Case: Professional teams requiring full productivity features

Cargo Feature: productivity

cargo build --features productivity

Included Features

All Core features plus:

• ✅ Email integration (IMAP/SMTP)
• ✅ Calendar management
• ✅ Video meetings (LiveKit)
• ✅ Mail client interface
• ✅ Redis caching

Additional Dependencies

• imap - Email receiving
• lettre - Email sending
• mailparse - Email parsing
• livekit - Video conferencing

Typical Deployment: Business office, remote teams

Enterprise Edition

Use Case: Large organizations with compliance and integration requirements

Cargo Feature: enterprise

cargo build --features enterprise

Included Features

All Standard features plus:

• ✅ Compliance monitoring (LGPD/GDPR/HIPAA/SOC2)
• ✅ Attendance tracking
• ✅ Directory services (LDAP/AD compatible)
• ✅ Vector database (Qdrant)
• ✅ Advanced monitoring (sysinfo)
• ✅ LLM integration

Compliance Features

Typical Deployment: Enterprise data center, regulated industries

Communications Edition

Use Case: Organizations needing multi-channel customer engagement

Cargo Feature: communications

cargo build --features communications

Included Features

• ✅ Email (IMAP/SMTP)
• ✅ WhatsApp Business
• ✅ Instagram messaging
• ✅ Microsoft Teams
• ✅ Chat
• ✅ Redis caching

Channel Support

Typical Deployment: Customer service center, marketing teams

Full Edition

Use Case: Maximum capability, all features enabled

Cargo Feature: full

cargo build --features full

All Features Enabled

• ✅ UI Server + Desktop application
• ✅ Console TUI
• ✅ Vector database (Qdrant)
• ✅ LLM integration
• ✅ NVIDIA GPU acceleration
• ✅ All communication channels
• ✅ Full productivity suite
• ✅ Compliance & attendance
• ✅ Directory services
• ✅ Web automation
• ✅ Redis caching
• ✅ System monitoring
• ✅ Automation (Rhai)
• ✅ gRPC support
• ✅ Progress bars

Hardware Recommendations

Typical Deployment: Enterprise AI platform, research environments

Feature Matrix

Custom Feature Combinations

You can combine individual features for custom builds:

# Chat + Email + Vector search
cargo build --features "chat,email,vectordb"

# Productivity + Compliance
cargo build --features "productivity,compliance"

# Everything except desktop
cargo build --features "full" --no-default-features

Available Feature Flags

[features]
# UI Features
desktop = ["dep:tauri", ...]
ui-server = []
console = ["dep:crossterm", "dep:ratatui", "monitoring"]

# Core Integrations
vectordb = ["dep:qdrant-client"]
llm = []
nvidia = []

# Communication Channels
email = ["dep:imap", "dep:lettre", ...]
whatsapp = []
instagram = []
msteams = []

# Productivity Features
chat = []
drive = ["dep:aws-config", "dep:aws-sdk-s3", ...]
tasks = ["dep:cron"]
calendar = []
meet = ["dep:livekit"]
mail = ["email"]

# Enterprise Features
compliance = ["dep:csv"]
attendance = []
directory = []
weba = []

# Infrastructure
redis-cache = ["dep:redis"]
monitoring = ["dep:sysinfo"]
automation = ["dep:rhai"]
grpc = ["dep:tonic"]
progress-bars = ["dep:indicatif"]

Deployment Recommendations

By Organization Size

By Industry

Upgrading Editions

Editions can be changed by rebuilding with different feature flags:

# From Core to Enterprise
cargo build --release --features enterprise

# From Standard to Full
cargo build --release --features full

Note: Some features may require additional infrastructure components:

• vectordb → Requires Qdrant service
• meet → Requires LiveKit server
• redis-cache → Requires Redis/Valkey
• nvidia → Requires NVIDIA GPU + CUDA

See Also

• Cargo.toml Feature Definitions
• Installation Guide
• Architecture Overview
• Compliance Requirements