Everything Rewriter knows how to do.
^ keep this open the first time through. you'll want it.
Getting started
Paste a chapter-delimited draft or drop a file. Rewriter splits it into chapters by heading patterns and opens straight into the vision view. Recent manuscripts wait on the landing for you to come back.
if you came from weaver, look for "import a bundle" on the landing. it carries the dictionary and the chosen scenes straight in.
Drafts are kept in this browser, on this device. Nothing leaves until you ask the AI to read it. Your provider key stays in the browser too.
First read
Before Rewriter writes anything, it reads. The vision is five or six paragraphs about what your manuscript already does: the voice it speaks in, the way it handles time, the shape of its attention. A voice fingerprint sits alongside, with the rhythm and register a rewrite has to honor.
The narrator moves slow, and the prose stays close to the body. A look, a breath, a held silence carry as much weight as a sentence of dialogue. The pacing trusts the reader to wait.
Place rises first, character second. Rooms before people. The mood of a kitchen tells you who lives in it before they walk in.
Time bends without warning. The reader catches the shift through tense and texture, not through transitions. The draft assumes the reader is paying attention.
You can edit any line inline. The vision is the writer's, not the model's. The voice fingerprint is what the rewrite holds to.
first read is automatic. you don't press anything to start it.
Per chapter
From the vision, Rewriter derives an outline: one or more intent paragraphs per chapter. Each intent names a small ambition the rewrite is allowed to chase. Click any intent to edit it. Hover a row to remove one.
Each intent has a priority. When a chapter is hard to rewrite, Rewriter drops the lowest-priority intent first and tries again. The intent list is the contract; the prose is the attempt.
you can leave a chapter empty. an empty outline means the rewriter's only job is to preserve.
The rewrite
Open a chapter and you read the original on the left while Rewriter writes the rewrite on the right. The plan appears first as a small pill (preservation, minor, or substantive). Then the prose streams in. When the writing settles, a supervisor reads with fresh eyes and gives a verdict.
The verdict is PASS or REVISE, with up to three findings backing it. Try again is a full reset: every dropped intent comes back, the counter resets, the chapter starts fresh. The original draft is the baseline; the rewrite only earns its place when it lands cleaner.
if the rewrite would be worse than the original, the engine keeps the original. preservation is a valid outcome at every layer.
In the margin
While you read either pane, you can select any prose and a small pill appears below the selection. Two options. Hold to. Tell Rewriter what about this line cannot change. A character constraint, a world fact, a continuity hold. Voice notes. Tell Rewriter what the line is doing right (or wrong) so the next rewrite hears it.
Mara crossed the kitchen and put the kettle on. She moved like someone who had done this every morning for years, without thinking, without looking, the way a body remembers a room.
Holds become part of every subsequent rewrite call for this manuscript. Voice notes are scoped finer: per-chapter, per-line direction the rewriter folds into the next pass. The selection toolbar lives on the page itself, ready whenever you read.
The engine
Three roles read your chapter in turn. A tactician makes a plan (preserve, minor, or substantive). An artisan writes the prose. A supervisor reads the rewrite with fresh eyes and decides.
The retry budget scales with the intent count. A chapter with one intent gets one retry. A chapter with six intents gets six. The floor is always preservation.
the supervisor never sees the plan. each read is fresh. the engine holds the loop state so the read stays honest.
Your moves
A small diff toggle on kept chapters shows what changed: word-level edits, kept lines, untouched paragraphs. If the engine kept the original, the chapter is labeled clearly so you can see which chapters passed through unchanged.
Unattended
You can let Rewriter run chapter after chapter without waiting for you. Auto-keep accepts any PASS outright and any kept-original outcome silently. Anything that exhausts its retry budget falls to review, where you decide before it goes.
Auto-keep unlocks after you've manually kept your first chapter. The first keep is the writer telling the system what "good enough" looks like in this draft.
when you trust the rewrite, walk away. when you don't, the review tray waits.
Getting it out
Export. Markdown or plain text. Optionally include the originals as blockquotes so you can read the rewrite against what was. Kept-original chapters are labeled distinctly.
Hand to R/W. The final stop in the suite. Rewriter bundles the rewritten manuscript plus the cumulative dictionary (everything Weaver taught, everything you added here) and hands it to the reader. R/W picks up where Rewriter left off.
the dictionary keeps growing across the chain. nothing you teach is lost when you hand the work forward.
Settings
Provider. Pick Anthropic, OpenAI, or Gemini. Each holds its own key. Switching panels keeps your draft state in the others.
Model. Each provider has a model picker. The defaults are sensible. The custom field accepts a model id if you have something specific in mind.
Theme. Light or dark. The reader and Weaver siblings remember the same choice.
You've read the guide. One last thing.
Every revision starts the same way: somebody trusts the draft enough to read it again.
You're ready. Open a manuscript. Rewriter will read first.
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