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CookBotCook Pro

CookBot is an AI assistant that lives in a sidebar inside Cook Editor. It reads the recipes and menus you point it at, and proposes edits to your .cook and .menu files as changes you approve — nothing is written without your say-so.

Looking for things to ask it? Jump to the prompt library.

How to open CookBot

CookBot is a sidebar in Cook Editor. Open the AI panel and sign in with your Cook account — your subscription travels with the account. The editor itself is free and open source; CookBot is the part that needs Cook Pro.

What it's good at

  • Importing. Point it at a URL and it converts the page into a clean, structured .cook file.
  • Meal planning. Ask for a week of dinners around a constraint (budget, dietary, what's in the fridge) and it drafts a .menu linking recipes across days, plus a shopping list.
  • Editing at speed. Scaling, rewording steps, normalizing units, tagging — the tedious edits done in seconds, approved in one click.
  • Answering in context. Because it sees the recipes you share, "what should I serve alongside this?" gets an answer that fits what you actually cook.

Every change is a diff you approve

CookBot doesn't quietly rewrite your files. When it proposes a change, you see exactly what it wants to do, as a diff: 

  Simmer @tomatoes{400%g} with @garlic{2%cloves} for ~{15%minutes}.
- Season with @salt and @pepper.
+ Season with @salt{1%tsp} and @black pepper{1/2%tsp}.
+ Stir in @fresh basil{handful} just before serving.

Nothing lands on disk until you click accept. CookBot is a fast assistant, not an autopilot.

Your data

  • Only what you share is sent. CookBot sees the specific recipes or menus you reference in a conversation — not your whole collection by default.
  • Not used for training. The content you send is not used to train the AI provider's models.
  • Every write is a diff you approve. Nothing is saved until you accept it.

Try it

CookBot is included with Cook Pro — €10/month, cancel anytime. If you cancel you lose the AI, but never your recipes: your .cook and .menu files stay plain text on your disk. Start with the prompt library.