Director and Advancement
| Term | Meaning | See Also |
|---|---|---|
| Director V1 | The original director and novel workbench, retaining phase-by-phase creation entry points, suitable for continuing existing novels. | Auto Director |
| Director V2 | The book director console, concentrating reading of directory, body text, and materials, continuously planning and generating by authorized scope. | Auto Director |
| Book Director Console | V2’s centralized creation interface, where you can read body text, view materials, advance planning, and handle pause items. | Quick Start |
| Fully Automatic Advancement | The AI continuously completes planning, body text writing, checking, and saving within the authorized scope of this session, with ordinary phases automatically continuing. | Auto Director |
| Phase-by-Phase Confirmation (Semi-Automatic) | Saves results at phases requiring confirmation for your verification, then continues after verification, without needing to manually trigger each chapter. | Auto Director |
| Authorized Scope | The creation interval you explicitly submit to the AI, such as Chapters 1 to 3; after completion, you need to select the next segment. | Auto Director |
| Pause | The system actively stops due to external reasons, waiting for confirmation, or reaching a protection limit; progress is preserved. | Auto Director |
| Failure | The current command did not complete; you need to first look at the error information before deciding to retry or switch models. | Run History |
| Checkpoint | A recoverable position saved by Auto Director; after pausing, you can resume from here without starting over. | Auto Director |
| Director Follow-up | A page for viewing pause reasons, phase results, and resume entry points, used to handle in-progress pause items. | Auto Director |
| Run History (Task Center) | Read-only list for viewing backend task queuing, running, failure, and recovery positions; real operations must be completed on the source page. | Run History |
| Direction Candidates | Optional book-level directions and title sets generated by Auto Director based on ideas, for you to select and confirm. | Auto Director |
| Book Contract | A creative agreement writing target readers, selling points, promises, and hard constraints, providing a coordinate system for subsequent planning. | Auto Director |
| Story Macro | The long-term conflict, advancement cycle, and mainline structure of the entire book, helping maintain consistent direction throughout. | Auto Director |
| Volume Strategy | Volume strategy, goals, and advancement route; requires user confirmation. | Auto Director |
| Volume Skeleton | Volume list and tasks per volume, breaking the entire book into manageable chunks. | Auto Director |
| Beat Board | Breaks volume planning into executable beat nodes, connecting volume strategy with specific chapters. | Auto Director |
| Chapter List | Chapter titles, order, and basic goals; the last planning step before formally writing body text. | Auto Director |
| Chapter Refinement / Brief | Chapter brief, scene cards, and goals, providing specific execution instructions for body text generation. | Auto Director |
| Quality Debt / Chapter Reminders | Ordinary local quality issues recorded as reminders and advancement continues; not equivalent to global failure. | Auto Director, FAQ |
| Prioritize Completing the Whole Book | Default strategy: records ordinary local issues as chapter reminders and continues writing subsequent chapters. | FAQ |
| Quality First | Stricter strategy: may pause after body text is saved, waiting for manual handling of quality issues. | Auto Director |
Planning Structure
| Term | Meaning | See Also |
|---|---|---|
| Book Breakdown | Breaks down reference works or your own drafts into evidence-based, structured creation materials, with 8 analysis subsections. | Book Breakdown Workbench |
| Write Following a Book | Uses completed book breakdown results to start a book; can choose to continue the original work or reference it to create a new book. | Novels & Starting a Book |
| Continue Original Work | Retains original characters, world rules, timeline, and unresolved clues, continuing from the ending. | Book Breakdown Workbench |
| Reference to Create New Book | Learns the structure, pacing, and writing style of the reference work, but generates new characters, world, and plot. | Book Breakdown Workbench |
| Creative Continuation Plan | A bridge between book breakdown and the new project, providing the first three chapters’ direction and this book’s creative positioning. | Book Breakdown Workbench |
| Outline Workbench | An independent creation tool: first organize ideas into an executable structure, confirm it, then hand it off as a novel. | Outline Workbench |
| Outline Revision | Every manual save or adoption of AI suggestions creates an independent, non-overwritable revision version. | Outline Workbench |
| Foreshadowing Plan / Foreshadowing Ledger | Foreshadowing in the outline first exists as a plan; only after evidence appears in the body text is it associated with the actual ledger. | Outline Workbench |
Quality and Usage
| Term | Meaning | See Also |
|---|---|---|
| Single-Chapter Usage Protection | V2 single-chapter default limit is 100,000 Tokens, accumulating generation, checking, text repair, and material organization calls for that chapter, preventing single-chapter consumption from spiraling out of control. | AI Usage |
| Tokens | The counting unit for AI calls; total Tokens = input + output; actual fees are based on the provider’s bill. | AI Usage |
| Cache Hit | Providers charge a lower unit price for reused input prefixes; the workbench improves hit rate by stabilizing material prefixes. | AI Usage |
Models and Configuration
| Term | Meaning | See Also |
|---|---|---|
| Model Routing | Specifies which model to use for different tasks such as planning, body text, review, and book breakdown. | Model Configuration |
| Structured Output | Planning steps require the model to return strict structured results; some reasoning models may be incompatible. | Model Configuration |
| Style Engine | A long-term asset for saving, editing, and reusing narrative styles, keeping subsequent chapters in the same linguistic flavor. | Style Engine |
| Anti-AI Rules | Organizes undesired expression issues (templating, over-explaining, unnatural dialogue, etc.) into checkable rules. | Anti-AI Rules |
Materials and Writing Style
| Term | Meaning | See Also |
|---|---|---|
| Knowledge Base / Vector Retrieval (Qdrant) | A place to save long-term creation materials, recalling relevant fragments on demand during chapter execution through the RAG mechanism. | Knowledge Base |
| World Library | Saves reusable world view samples; after importing into a novel, they become this book’s world copy and can be adjusted separately. | World Library |
| Basic Character Library | Saves reusable character assets; after importing into a novel, they become character instances, with plot status maintained separately. | Character Library |
| Simple Creation | Focuses on bookshelf, body text reading, and progress; suitable for letting Auto Director continuously complete the whole book. | Novels & Starting a Book |
| Professional Creation | Displays the complete chain including project settings, story macro, volume strategy, chapter breakdown, etc.; suitable for inspection and adjustment. | Novels & Starting a Book |
| Creative Hub | An entry point for status queries and problem diagnosis across the entire creation process; does not execute creation actions. | Creative Hub |
| Trending Genre Radar | Extracts verifiable market signals from public rankings, providing genre and differentiation references for starting a book. | Trending Genre Radar |
| Writing Kernel v2 | A new long-form body text process; currently still disabled by default in this version, can be enabled in settings. | Changelog |
| Original Draft Revision | Supports adding, deactivating, merging chapters, and chapter-by-chapter modification; entry is disabled by default. | Changelog |
Quick Start
From installation to writing the first paragraph of body text
Creation Flow Overview
Understand the complete chain from idea to chapter