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The Document Assistant

The Document Assistant is the AI writing help that lives inside the scene you are editing. Where the Chat Assistant talks about your whole project, the Document Assistant works on the prose in front of you — drafting, revising, and keeping the scene in step with your notes. It appears as a side chat alongside the Document Editor .

The Document Assistant is the feature covered by the Story Teller trial. See Availability and the trial below.

How edits are proposed

The Document Assistant never overwrites your scene silently. When it changes prose it shows you a diff — the old text and the proposed new text, side by side — and you Accept, Reject, or Undo each change. It can propose edits across more than one file when a change touches several scenes, and every one is yours to approve.

Drafting with /add

Type /add followed by what you want to happen — “Mara confronts her brother about the letter” — and the assistant:

  1. Produces a beat-by-beat plan for the passage, which you can review.
  2. On your go-ahead, writes the prose and presents it as a diff to accept.

If your story has a _style_guide.md, the assistant reads it so the new prose matches your voice.

Refreshing scene metadata with /refresh

/refresh reads the prose of the current scene and rewrites its metadata — the characters present and the setting — to match what you have actually written. Handy after a scene has changed a lot.

Syncing a scene back to your notes with /update

/update pushes what happens in the current scene back into your story’s memory. You can scope it:

  • /update timeline adds the scene’s events to your timeline .
  • /update memory updates the relevant character or topic memoranda.
  • /update place updates the place notes.

This is how your notes stay current as you draft — write the scene, then let the assistant fold what happened into your characters, timeline, and world.

Pinning context with /reference

/reference pins something as a hard constraint the assistant must respect — another topic (a character sheet, a world rule) or another scene (by its @path). Pinning a character sheet, for instance, keeps the assistant true to that character while it drafts.

You can also exclude topics from consideration, so the assistant ignores parts of your story you do not want bleeding into the current scene.

Availability and the trial

The Document Assistant is included in Story Teller Pro (and the bundle). It is also available on a 30-day trial that begins when you register any valid license — so you can try it even before buying Story Teller Pro.

  • On the free, unregistered tier the Document Assistant is not available — register a key to start the trial.
  • When a trial ends without a Story Teller Pro license, the assistant shows that the trial has expired and points you to upgrade. Your writing and notes are unaffected; only the in-editor AI help pauses.

See Licensing & Trial for the details.

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