⚠️ WORK IN PROGRESS - expect bugs, and features change often. Single player only (multiplayer is not supported).

AICS - AI Control System

Talk to your ship. AICS is an in-game AI co-pilot and autopilot for KSP 1.12: chat with your craft and crew, and let the autopilot take off, fly, shoot an ILS approach and land. Everything runs inside KSP (one plugin DLL). Plain commands like "take off" or "land runway 27" work even with the AI switched off.

What's in

• AI chat that flies - cloud AI (free keys for Gemini / Groq / OpenRouter work), LM Studio / Ollama on your PC, or the embedded Qwen model.
• Aircraft autopilot - altitude, vertical speed, heading and speed holds, takeoff, go-around, abort.
• Approach, ILS and autoland - approach charts for KSC 09/27 and the Island runway, coupled localizer + glideslope, flare, rollout, taxi.
• LEARN - a test flight that measures your plane (stall, climb, decel, turns, touchdown) and tunes the autopilot to it.
• AICS MFD control box - one movable, resizable cockpit-style panel with every page; also on stock cockpit screens in IVA and RasterPropMonitor.
• Crew chatter - kerbals talk on the intercom with their own personalities; talk to them with @Name.
• Tablet (new) - a bigger second window with a modern look: Flight (live tiles, gauges, graph + Aircraft page), Map, Tests (touch Learn checklist), Encyclopedia (live facts for every planet and moon). A LIVE LINK switch makes it information-only when off.
• Also - taxi routes, flight plans, science watcher, landing spots, systems dashboard + master alarm, map reveal (SCANsat aware), optional MechJeb2 orbital tools.

Coming next

No dates; plans change. - The remaining control box pages moved onto the tablet in the modern style. - Tablet Mission, Burns and Graphs tabs. - Rockets: mission planner (delta-v per stage vs the trip), burns and nodes, ascent guidance, auto-staging, landing. - Multi-launch campaigns and more tablet info screens (ship, science, resources, crew, contracts, live planet view). - Rover and helicopter autopilots, each with its own LEARN.

Requirements

KSP 1.12.x. Optional: MechJeb2, SCANsat, RasterPropMonitor. For chat, an AI backend of your choice (or the embedded model, downloaded on request).

Install

Unzip into your KSP folder so you get GameData/KSPChatBridge/Plugins/KSPChatBridge.dll. In game: Alt+K opens chat, Alt+J opens the AICS MFD. Your settings and keys live in GameData/KSPChatBridge/PluginData/.

Bugs and feedback

Please report at GitHub Issues and attach KSP.log plus the GameData/KSPChatBridge/PluginData/logs folder, with what you did and what happened.

Source, wiki and docs: github.com/zernon916/KSPChatBridge - MIT license.