The Writing Assistant

Overview

The Writing Assistant is a chat panel built into the writer. It's a creative partner you can talk to — brainstorm plot, ask craft questions, develop characters, and turn ideas into Story Bible entries or prose without leaving your draft. It understands your project's context, so its suggestions fit the story you're actually writing.

Opening the Assistant

The Assistant lives in the right panel of the writer. On desktop it's a collapsible column you can expand or tuck away with the caret button; on mobile it opens as a bottom sheet. The panel has three tabs:

• Chat — the conversation surface (the default).
• History — your past conversations, which you can revisit or rename.
• Changes — a read-only timeline of activity in your project.

Type in the composer at the bottom, press Enter to send, or Shift+Enter for a new line.

Asking & Brainstorming

At its simplest, the Assistant is someone to think out loud with. Ask it anything about your story or about craft:

• “What's a stronger motivation for my antagonist?”
• “Help me untangle the timeline in act two.”
• “How do I make this reveal land harder?”

It answers conversationally and pulls from your project context where that helps. Plain conversation like this is inexpensive — you're only spending meaningful Genesis Tokens when you ask it to generate something substantial.

Story Bible Proposal Cards

Ask the Assistant to invent something concrete and it returns a proposal card right in the chat:

• “Make me a rival captain with a grudge.” → a Character card
• “Design a rain-soaked harbor city.” → a Location card
• “Invent a blood-magic system with a cost.” → a Worldbuilding card

Review the card, then insert it into your Story Bible as a new Character, Location, or Worldbuilding node with one click. If you want options, you can insert more than one variation from the same idea. Nothing is added to your project until you choose to insert it.

Writing & Continuing Prose

You can also ask the Assistant to write. “Write the scene where they finally meet” or “continue this chapter” runs the same generation engine as the toolbar's Write & Continue tools, threading in your recent conversation and story context. The result appears as a card you can read and copy into your draft wherever you want it.

Attaching Files

Need the Assistant to work from existing material? Use the + button in the composer to attach up to three files (.txt, .md, or .docx). It reads them as reference for that conversation — handy for an outline, a style sample, or notes you drafted elsewhere. Very long files are trimmed to keep the conversation responsive.

Chat Mode vs Agent Mode

The composer has a Chat / Agent toggle:

• Chat (default) — ask, brainstorm, and create proposal cards. Nothing changes in your project unless you insert a card or copy prose in yourself.
• Agent — the mode for letting the Assistant take approved actions on your project. Agent capabilities are rolling out; as more land, this is where you'll hand off multi-step tasks.

Tips

• Be specific. “A mentor who secretly resents the hero” gives a sharper card than “a mentor.”
• Iterate in the chat. Don't love a proposal? Ask for a darker, older, or more reluctant version before inserting.
• Keep the Story Bible fed. Cards you insert become context the AI uses everywhere else it writes — see Context Building & Story Bible.