FIXED - !ai bang - Query not working

fanged_bagful

When I use the !ai shortcut on Firefox to send my search query to the AI assistant, it just opens the ai assistant without my query

justadreamer

i got the same issue. zen browser

andrewski

Same on chrome, no matter if it's in front or after the query. I think it was still working yesterday.

Edit: it DOES however work when using a bang that leads to a custom assistant, just not the default !ai one or any of the others listed here

Edit2: I don't know if it's a related problem but doing a normal websearch and then pressing 'a' also ignores the query and just opens the assistant on a new thread

OldGuyInTheClub

I see this on FF and Orion. Confirm sudden appearance of the problem. Worked fine until one or two days ago

fanged_bagful

andrewski

So based on what you are saying it seems like kagi search is still sending the query, but kagi assistant is the one failing to handle the incoming query?

I found the issue on Discord. It seems like they have changed the domain from https://kagi.com/assistant to https://assistant.kagi.com/. They added a redirect to the new domain, which strips the search query because the !ai bang is still sending "https://kagi.com/assistant?q=%s". The bang should be updated to avoid the redirect by instead sending "https://assistant.kagi.com/?q=%s"

I found a temporary workaround ,until Kagi updates the official bang, by creating a custom bang. I have included a screenshot.

fanged_bagful

Looks like Kagi Staff is already on it.

fanged_bagful

Fix is incoming!

tockrock

This behavior seems to be working as expected for me now!

fanged_bagful

yup, its working fine now

gysi

Queries launched through a Kagi Assistant bang are no longer decoded correctly before being submitted to the Assistant.

For example, in the Chrome address bar I enter:

research recent news, only globally important ones! !q

Kagi Assistant opens, but the submitted prompt is displayed as:

research recent news%2C only globally important ones%21

The comma is left as %2C, and the exclamation mark is left as %21.

Steps to reproduce

Use Google Chrome on desktop with Kagi configured as the default search engine.
Enter the following in the address bar:

research recent news, only globally important ones! !q
Press Enter.
Observe the prompt submitted to Kagi Assistant.

Actual result

The Assistant receives:

research recent news%2C only globally important ones%21

instead of the decoded text.

Regression information

This worked correctly until approximately one week ago.

The timing suggests that this may be related to the fix for the following issue, which changed Assistant bangs to route directly to assistant.kagi.com:

#11077 – !ai bang – Query not working](https://kagifeedback.org/d/11077-fixed-ai-bang-query-not-working)

The new direct route may be passing an already URL-encoded query to the Assistant without decoding the q parameter.

This is reproducible with the !q Quick Assistant bang. It may also affect other Assistant bangs such as !ai.

The Assistant should decode the query parameter before submitting or displaying the prompt.

For the input:

research recent news, only globally important ones! !q

the Assistant should receive:

research recent news, only globally important ones!

URL encoding such as %2C, %21, and %3F should not appear as literal text in the submitted prompt.

tockrock

The decoding issue is talked about in this thread, and it seems that a fix should be coming in the next deploy.
https://kagifeedback.org/d/11096-assistant-no-longer-decodes-url-encoding-from-ai-bang/5