The story bible

Compaction keeps the shape of your novel available to the model — how memory works covers that. The story bible keeps the facts: structured notes on the people, places and things your chapters have established, so the model is never guessing about who someone is.

Nine kinds of entry

Characters, factions, locations, items, weapons, creatures, techniques, concepts and events. Each kind has its own shape — a character carries a role and a status, a weapon carries who holds it and what it costs to use, an event carries who is bound by it.

Every fact records the chapter it came from. That is the difference between notes you trust and notes you have to re-check: when something looks wrong you can see exactly which chapter put it there.

How it reaches the writer

An index of the bible — names, aliases and one-line summaries — travels with every chapter prompt. The full entry is fetched only for the people and places actually in the scene you asked for.

That split is the entire design. Pasting a whole bible into every prompt is how a hundred-chapter novel starts paying for a hundred entries it does not need, on every single chapter, forever.

When it updates

• On every accept (the default) — a small model reads the chapter you just accepted and files what is new. A fraction of a cent per chapter, always at the cheap model's rates whatever is writing your prose.
• In batches — accepts stay instant and free, and you press Update story bible when it suits you. Catching up reads chapter summaries rather than full text, so it is cheap.
• Off — no bible, no bible costs. You can turn it on later and backfill everything written in the meantime.

A catch-up run can be stopped at any point and everything already worked out is kept; running it again resumes from where it stopped.

Your edits win

Open any entry and change it. What you write is authoritative and stays that way until a later chapter genuinely contradicts it — extraction will not quietly overwrite you.

You can also add an entry by hand for something you have planned but not yet written, which is a good way to keep a name consistent before it ever appears on the page.

Four ways to look at it

Entries is the default. Map draws the relationships between entries as a graph, Timeline lays them out by the chapter they first appeared, and the Atlas draws the places as an actual map of your world.