The Chat Assistant
The Chat panel is where you talk to Story Teller’s assistant about your project as a whole — brainstorming, asking questions about your story, and letting it update your notes. It is distinct from the Document Assistant , which works inside a single scene.
Think levels
Each message is answered at a think level you choose, trading speed for depth:
- Quick — fast, lightweight answers
- Story — tuned for narrative work
- Thoughtful — the default; more careful reasoning
- Research — the most thorough
Each level maps to a language-model configuration you set in Settings , so you control exactly which model answers at each level.
Grounding the assistant: RAG, Context, and Tools
Three toggles control how much the assistant knows and what it may do:
| Toggle | Effect |
|---|---|
| RAG | Search your libraries of documents for relevant passages and use them in the answer |
| Context | Include the memoranda of your active topics so the assistant knows your characters, places, and world. Turning this off gives you an “incognito” conversation that ignores your notes |
| Tools | Allow the assistant to make changes — creating and updating topics, characters, places, and timeline events |
With Context on, the assistant answers grounded in the story you have actually written, not generic knowledge.
Story Mode and story tools
When you have a story open, a Story Mode toggle appears. In Story Mode the assistant is given a set of story tools and is expected to use them rather than just describe changes:
- Create or update a character
- Create or update a place
- Add a timeline event
- Update your world rules
So you can say “add a scar to Mara’s description and note when she got it,” and the assistant will update Mara’s character sheet and add the event to her timeline — actually changing your notes, not just replying in text.
Reacting to answers
You guide the assistant over time by reacting to its answers:
- Thumbs-up marks an exchange as good. Approved exchanges are folded into your topic memoranda, so what the assistant got right becomes part of your story’s memory.
- Thumbs-down excludes an exchange from context and from future processing.
- Delete removes an exchange entirely.
An approval can be changed as long as the exchange has not yet been processed into your memoranda.
Commands
A few slash commands help you steer a conversation:
/newstarts a fresh stretch of conversation and flushes what came before into your topics./helpshows the available commands.
Related pages
- The Document Assistant — AI help scoped to one scene
- Topics & Memoranda — the memory the assistant reads and writes
- Settings & AI Configuration — mapping think levels to models