diff --git a/packages/backend/server/package.json b/packages/backend/server/package.json
index 8768adec35..61a1cd94c8 100644
--- a/packages/backend/server/package.json
+++ b/packages/backend/server/package.json
@@ -77,6 +77,7 @@
     "nestjs-throttler-storage-redis": "^0.4.1",
     "nodemailer": "^6.9.10",
     "on-headers": "^1.0.2",
+    "openai": "^4.29.2",
     "parse-duration": "^1.1.0",
     "pretty-time": "^1.1.0",
     "prisma": "^5.10.2",
diff --git a/packages/backend/server/src/config/affine.self.ts b/packages/backend/server/src/config/affine.self.ts
index cecc33fbbc..5cc19b37f7 100644
--- a/packages/backend/server/src/config/affine.self.ts
+++ b/packages/backend/server/src/config/affine.self.ts
@@ -38,6 +38,11 @@ if (env.R2_OBJECT_STORAGE_ACCOUNT_ID) {
   }`;
 }
 
+AFFiNE.plugins.use('copilot', {
+  openai: {
+    apiKey: 'test',
+  },
+});
 AFFiNE.plugins.use('redis');
 AFFiNE.plugins.use('payment', {
   stripe: {
diff --git a/packages/backend/server/src/core/config.ts b/packages/backend/server/src/core/config.ts
index e34ee1dc51..2d09d92c3f 100644
--- a/packages/backend/server/src/core/config.ts
+++ b/packages/backend/server/src/core/config.ts
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import { DeploymentType } from '../fundamentals';
 import { Public } from './auth';
 
 export enum ServerFeature {
+  Copilot = 'copilot',
   Payment = 'payment',
   OAuth = 'oauth',
 }
diff --git a/packages/backend/server/src/plugins/config.ts b/packages/backend/server/src/plugins/config.ts
index eea08c491f..ba512a65d9 100644
--- a/packages/backend/server/src/plugins/config.ts
+++ b/packages/backend/server/src/plugins/config.ts
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import { CopilotConfig } from './copilot';
 import { GCloudConfig } from './gcloud/config';
 import { OAuthConfig } from './oauth';
 import { PaymentConfig } from './payment';
@@ -6,6 +7,7 @@ import { R2StorageConfig, S3StorageConfig } from './storage';
 
 declare module '../fundamentals/config' {
   interface PluginsConfig {
+    readonly copilot: CopilotConfig;
     readonly payment: PaymentConfig;
     readonly redis: RedisOptions;
     readonly gcloud: GCloudConfig;
diff --git a/packages/backend/server/src/plugins/copilot/index.ts b/packages/backend/server/src/plugins/copilot/index.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..53dd28a178
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/backend/server/src/plugins/copilot/index.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+import { ServerFeature } from '../../core/config';
+import { Plugin } from '../registry';
+import { assertProvidersConfigs, CopilotProviderService } from './provider';
+
+@Plugin({
+  name: 'copilot',
+  providers: [CopilotProviderService],
+  contributesTo: ServerFeature.Copilot,
+  if: config => {
+    if (config.flavor.graphql) {
+      return assertProvidersConfigs(config);
+    }
+    return false;
+  },
+})
+export class CopilotModule {}
+
+export type { CopilotConfig } from './types';
diff --git a/packages/backend/server/src/plugins/copilot/provider.ts b/packages/backend/server/src/plugins/copilot/provider.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..24bf67ba63
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/backend/server/src/plugins/copilot/provider.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,135 @@
+import assert from 'node:assert';
+
+import { Injectable, Logger } from '@nestjs/common';
+
+import { Config } from '../../fundamentals';
+import {
+  CapabilityToCopilotProvider,
+  CopilotConfig,
+  CopilotProvider,
+  CopilotProviderCapability,
+  CopilotProviderType,
+} from './types';
+
+type CopilotProviderConfig = CopilotConfig[keyof CopilotConfig];
+
+interface CopilotProviderDefinition<C extends CopilotProviderConfig> {
+  // constructor signature
+  new (config: C): CopilotProvider;
+  // type of the provider
+  readonly type: CopilotProviderType;
+  // capabilities of the provider, like text to text, text to image, etc.
+  readonly capabilities: CopilotProviderCapability[];
+  // asserts that the config is valid for this provider
+  assetsConfig(config: C): boolean;
+}
+
+// registered provider factory
+const COPILOT_PROVIDER = new Map<
+  CopilotProviderType,
+  (config: Config, logger: Logger) => CopilotProvider
+>();
+
+// map of capabilities to providers
+const PROVIDER_CAPABILITY_MAP = new Map<
+  CopilotProviderCapability,
+  CopilotProviderType[]
+>();
+
+// config assertions for providers
+const ASSERT_CONFIG = new Map<CopilotProviderType, (config: Config) => void>();
+
+export function registerCopilotProvider<
+  C extends CopilotProviderConfig = CopilotProviderConfig,
+>(provider: CopilotProviderDefinition<C>) {
+  const type = provider.type;
+
+  const factory = (config: Config, logger: Logger) => {
+    const providerConfig = config.plugins.copilot?.[type];
+    if (!provider.assetsConfig(providerConfig as C)) {
+      throw new Error(
+        `Invalid configuration for copilot provider ${type}: ${providerConfig}`
+      );
+    }
+    const instance = new provider(providerConfig as C);
+    logger.log(
+      `Copilot provider ${type} registered, capabilities: ${provider.capabilities.join(', ')}`
+    );
+
+    return instance;
+  };
+  // register the provider
+  COPILOT_PROVIDER.set(type, factory);
+  // register the provider capabilities
+  for (const capability of provider.capabilities) {
+    const providers = PROVIDER_CAPABILITY_MAP.get(capability) || [];
+    if (!providers.includes(type)) {
+      providers.push(type);
+    }
+    PROVIDER_CAPABILITY_MAP.set(capability, providers);
+  }
+  // register the provider config assertion
+  ASSERT_CONFIG.set(type, (config: Config) => {
+    assert(config.plugins.copilot);
+    const providerConfig = config.plugins.copilot[type];
+    if (!providerConfig) return false;
+    return provider.assetsConfig(providerConfig as C);
+  });
+}
+
+/// Asserts that the config is valid for any registered providers
+export function assertProvidersConfigs(config: Config) {
+  return (
+    Array.from(ASSERT_CONFIG.values()).findIndex(assertConfig =>
+      assertConfig(config)
+    ) !== -1
+  );
+}
+
+@Injectable()
+export class CopilotProviderService {
+  private readonly logger = new Logger(CopilotProviderService.name);
+  constructor(private readonly config: Config) {}
+
+  private readonly cachedProviders = new Map<
+    CopilotProviderType,
+    CopilotProvider
+  >();
+
+  private create(provider: CopilotProviderType): CopilotProvider {
+    assert(this.config.plugins.copilot);
+    const providerFactory = COPILOT_PROVIDER.get(provider);
+
+    if (!providerFactory) {
+      throw new Error(`Unknown copilot provider type: ${provider}`);
+    }
+
+    return providerFactory(this.config, this.logger);
+  }
+
+  getProvider(provider: CopilotProviderType): CopilotProvider {
+    if (!this.cachedProviders.has(provider)) {
+      this.cachedProviders.set(provider, this.create(provider));
+    }
+
+    // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-non-null-assertion
+    return this.cachedProviders.get(provider)!;
+  }
+
+  getProviderByCapability<C extends CopilotProviderCapability>(
+    capability: C,
+    prefer?: CopilotProviderType
+  ): CapabilityToCopilotProvider[C] | null {
+    const providers = PROVIDER_CAPABILITY_MAP.get(capability);
+    if (Array.isArray(providers) && providers.length) {
+      const selectedCapability =
+        prefer && providers.includes(prefer) ? prefer : providers[0];
+
+      const provider = this.getProvider(selectedCapability);
+      assert(provider.getCapabilities().includes(capability));
+
+      return provider as CapabilityToCopilotProvider[C];
+    }
+    return null;
+  }
+}
diff --git a/packages/backend/server/src/plugins/copilot/types.ts b/packages/backend/server/src/plugins/copilot/types.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..fd72c4fd32
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/backend/server/src/plugins/copilot/types.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+import type { ClientOptions as OpenAIClientOptions } from 'openai';
+
+export interface CopilotConfig {
+  openai: OpenAIClientOptions;
+  fal: {
+    secret: string;
+  };
+}
+
+export enum CopilotProviderType {
+  FAL = 'fal',
+  OpenAI = 'openai',
+}
+
+export enum CopilotProviderCapability {
+  TextToText = 'text-to-text',
+  TextToEmbedding = 'text-to-embedding',
+  TextToImage = 'text-to-image',
+  ImageToImage = 'image-to-image',
+}
+
+export interface CopilotProvider {
+  getCapabilities(): CopilotProviderCapability[];
+}
+
+export type ChatMessage = {
+  role: 'system' | 'assistant' | 'user';
+  content: string;
+};
+
+export interface CopilotTextToTextProvider extends CopilotProvider {
+  generateText(messages: ChatMessage[], model: string): Promise<string>;
+  generateTextStream(
+    messages: ChatMessage[],
+    model: string
+  ): AsyncIterable<string>;
+}
+
+export interface CopilotTextToEmbeddingProvider extends CopilotProvider {}
+
+export interface CopilotTextToImageProvider extends CopilotProvider {}
+
+export interface CopilotImageToImageProvider extends CopilotProvider {}
+
+export type CapabilityToCopilotProvider = {
+  [CopilotProviderCapability.TextToText]: CopilotTextToTextProvider;
+  [CopilotProviderCapability.TextToEmbedding]: CopilotTextToEmbeddingProvider;
+  [CopilotProviderCapability.TextToImage]: CopilotTextToImageProvider;
+  [CopilotProviderCapability.ImageToImage]: CopilotImageToImageProvider;
+};
diff --git a/packages/backend/server/src/plugins/index.ts b/packages/backend/server/src/plugins/index.ts
index 42ea147ad3..9d82b90c10 100644
--- a/packages/backend/server/src/plugins/index.ts
+++ b/packages/backend/server/src/plugins/index.ts
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import './copilot';
 import './gcloud';
 import './oauth';
 import './payment';
diff --git a/packages/backend/server/src/schema.gql b/packages/backend/server/src/schema.gql
index e76bda04f8..982b4fa9d2 100644
--- a/packages/backend/server/src/schema.gql
+++ b/packages/backend/server/src/schema.gql
@@ -271,6 +271,7 @@ enum ServerDeploymentType {
 }
 
 enum ServerFeature {
+  Copilot
   OAuth
   Payment
 }
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index 17e5f89fb7..6dc9399197 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -726,6 +726,7 @@ __metadata:
     nodemailer: "npm:^6.9.10"
     nodemon: "npm:^3.1.0"
     on-headers: "npm:^1.0.2"
+    openai: "npm:^4.29.2"
     parse-duration: "npm:^1.1.0"
     pretty-time: "npm:^1.1.0"
     prisma: "npm:^5.10.2"