Is it connected? Verify and troubleshoot

Confirm it works

Make sure Nomi is open, then go back to the assistant you just connected and restarted, and send:

List the projects that are in Nomi.

If the reply contains real project names from your Nomi project library, it is connected.

Then try the sample sentence shown on the card:

Create a “Coffee Ad” project in Nomi, split it into three shots, add them to the canvas, and generate the first one with my image model.

Back in Nomi, a new project is in the library and the canvas has shots: the assistant is really operating Nomi. If the assistant needs to generate, make sure a model is already connected in Nomi.

When it cannot connect

What you see	Most likely because	What to do
The assistant says it cannot connect to Nomi, or has no Nomi tools	Nomi is not open, or the assistant was not restarted after connecting	Open Nomi first, then fully restart the assistant
My assistant is not on Nomi’s connection card	Nomi did not detect it on this computer	Install the assistant and come back, or connect it by hand with the generic configuration under Other clients at the bottom of the card
Connect is refused	The assistant’s config file is not valid JSON, is read-only, or its entry named nomi was not written by this Nomi	Follow the message on the card: fix that file, turn off read-only, or remove that nomi entry in the assistant and connect again
The card says the connection configuration needs an update	The assistant holds an older Nomi launch method that no longer exists	Click Upgrade or Repair on the card, then restart the assistant
Cursor can only start drafts and cannot produce directly	Cursor is not a trusted starter by default and the switch is off	Select Cursor on the card, turn on “Let Cursor start production on its own”, and watch for Cursor’s own approval on its first call

Note

After a Nomi update, the top of the card may ask whether to switch an assistant to the faster way to connect. Nomi backs up before it changes anything, and choosing Not now still works until the next version. Once switched, Nomi must be open before you use it.

Still stuck

Write down which assistant you use, which step you reached and what the assistant said word for word, then ask in the GitHub discussions. Do not paste whole configuration files.