Author's Workshop is a desktop writing environment for novelists. A growing index of your characters, lore, and prose feeds every prompt — so the AI drafts in your voice, with your canon, on your machine.
Author's Workshop builds a living World Bucket — characters, settings, factions, lore, voice guides — and threads it into every Forge generation, every Pipeline step, every chat. The AI stops inventing. It starts remembering.
The World Bucket is a living index of everything you've built. Characters with full histories. Settings with texture and rules. Factions with motives. Voice guides that capture your prose style. Toggle which files are active, or set keyword triggers and let the app pull them in automatically. Author's Workshop threads the right context into every Forge prompt, every Pipeline step, every chat. The AI stops guessing. It starts knowing.
Author's Workshop is built around five interlocking surfaces. Each one is grounded in your World Bucket and configurable down to the agent prompt.
Five builders — Character, Setting, Faction, Lore, Free Form — with Quick prompts, Guided forms, and an Update mode that keeps existing files in sync as your story evolves. Per-field generation, version history on every field, and a Forge Assistant that asks before it invents.
Chain agents — Director, Imagine, Write, Reviewer, Polish — into named, savable layouts. Step through one stage at a time. Approve, edit, retry with Executive Director Notes, route to a different agent, or swap models per step. Compare any two drafts side by side.
Auto-saving full editor with version history, Find & Replace, fullscreen mode, Audit (AI vs human score), Grammar with brick-level diffs, Auto-Write that streams into your cursor, and a Transform palette for selection-level rewrites.
Every agent is a prompt file you own. Edit them in Settings, version them, generate new ones from a description, isolate them per project. System agents (Grammar, Auto-Write, Transform) live in their own section so you know exactly what breaks if you change them.
Paste a chapter, a worldbuilding doc, or an entire draft. An importer agent reads it and proposes World Bucket entries — characters, settings, factions, lore — already typed and categorized. Review the list, tweak any entry, save the ones you want.
Built for writers who don't start from zero.
Four moves. Each one feeds the next. Click a step to jump in.
Author's Workshop is OpenAI-compatible and Anthropic-native. Plug in any number of providers — Anthropic, OpenAI, Groq, Mistral, OpenRouter, Together AI, LM Studio, llama.cpp, or anything that speaks the protocol. Override the model per pipeline step. Run entirely local if you want to.
Files live on your disk as plain markdown. Nothing leaves your machine unless you point it at a remote provider. Full Backup & Project Package exports keep you portable.
Run Director on Claude Opus, Imagine on Mistral, Write on a local 70B. Cost-track every token; switch models on a session without touching globals.
Every agent is a prompt file. Read them, fork them, generate new ones from a description, version them. Nothing about the AI's behavior is a black box.
Every novel gets its own World Bucket, agents, pipeline layouts, and history. Switch projects from the top bar — nothing bleeds between them.
A short list of the things you'd expect from a tool you actually live in.
Private beta opens this spring. Join the Discord to get install instructions the moment doors open — and talk shop with other writers building their worlds.
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