How AI Assist works, and what it's allowed to do on its own

The five ways to ask for help

Choose a mode from the assistant panel before asking: Think through the direction talks through a problem without producing prose; Rewrite selected text proposes an alternative for whatever you've selected; Continue in my voice extends the draft forward; Check continuity looks for risks in what's already on the page. Articles add two more modes -- Plan article outline and Prepare article SEO.

Two quick-action buttons cover the two most common requests without typing a prompt: one asks for continuity risks with evidence separated from inference, the other asks for possible next beats without rewriting anything you've already written.

Review before anything changes

A rewrite or continuation opens as a proposal showing your current writing beside the proposed writing, so you're comparing the two directly rather than trusting a description of the change. From there you can discard it, copy the proposed text, save it as a new chapter version instead of overwriting your current one, or apply it -- replacing the selection or inserting the continuation.

Nothing reaches the manuscript through any other path. A chat response is advice until you choose one of those actions.

Turning a suggestion into a task

From the same panel, you can turn your current prompt into a task instead of asking AI Assist to answer it in the editor -- useful for a follow-up you want to come back to later rather than resolve right now. The task is created directly from what you typed, not auto-generated behind the scenes.

How many actions you get

Each request to AI Assist -- a chat message, rewrite, continuation, continuity check, or story-note or Timeline extraction -- counts as one AI action. Free includes 10 lifetime actions, Starter includes 150 per billing cycle, and Pro includes 500 per cycle. The assistant panel shows the remaining count.