Help Chat
What it is
Help Chat is your in-project assistant for support work.
It is best for:
- understanding the current story state
- looking up characters, lore, and story entries
- reviewing timeline, clues, and foreshadowing
- checking relationship changes and continuity risks
- turning recent discussion into draft material
If you want long-form prose, in-character writing, or a full scene written directly, the writing chat is usually a better fit. If you want help diagnosing, organizing, checking, and preparing, Help Chat is the better tool.
What it can do right now
1. Summarize the current story state
You can ask things like:
- What is the current story state?
- Where is the main plot stuck right now?
- What is the most important problem at the moment?
- What should the next scene push forward?
Help Chat can help summarize:
- the main current conflict
- where the story has recently moved
- unresolved threads
- the biggest pressure points right now
2. Review the timeline
You can ask:
- Where has the story progressed recently?
- What happened before a certain scene?
- What key events has a character gone through recently?
This is useful when you want order and sequence without manually digging through a lot of chat history.
3. Track clues, foreshadowing, and payoffs
You can ask:
- What clues are still unresolved?
- What foreshadowing has been planted here?
- Have any earlier hints already paid off?
- Which unresolved mystery is the most important right now?
Help Chat can help separate:
- threads that are still open
- signals that may be foreshadowing
- parts that already look like payoffs
4. Inspect character relationships
You can ask:
- Which two characters have the most tension right now?
- Which relationship has changed the most recently?
- Who has this character's relationship shifted with the most?
If your project already has clear relationship metadata, Help Chat becomes much more useful here.
5. Check continuity risks
You can ask:
- Does this section break continuity?
- Is there anything contradictory here?
- Are there any obvious continuity risks right now?
This is useful as a first-pass continuity check before you keep writing.
6. Look up character information
You can ask:
- List the main characters
- What is this character's profile?
- What is this character's recent state?
- What is the relationship between these two characters?
This is good for quickly confirming character information instead of switching between multiple panels.
7. Look up lore and setting entries
You can ask:
- List the lore in this project
- Look up a place, organization, or rule
- What is the current version of this setting entry?
If you already know the target entry, Help Chat can also help open more specific details.
8. Find story entries and chat content
You can ask:
- What story entries exist right now?
- Show me this story node
- Did we mention this topic recently in chat?
This is especially useful once your project grows large and you need quick navigation.
9. Check scene memory and location memory
You can ask:
- What does this place look like right now?
- What is happening in the current scene?
- Have we described this location before?
A simple way to think about it:
- ask about a location when you want more stable, long-term place details
- ask about a scene when you want recent events or the current dramatic state
10. Review recall feedback
You can ask:
- Why did this turn miss an important recall?
- How has recall quality been recently?
- What kinds of recall problems are showing up in recent human feedback?
If your project has recall feedback data, Help Chat can help summarize:
- what often gets missed
- what often gets pulled in the wrong way
- which feedback patterns show up most often
11. Prepare drafts
Help Chat can currently help prepare:
- character drafts
- lore / worldbuilding drafts
- scene drafts from recent chat discussion
Useful examples:
- "Turn the character ideas we just discussed into a draft."
- "Turn this brainstorming into a scene draft."
- "Create a starter lore entry I can refine later."
How to ask better questions
If you want more stable results, it helps to be clear about what kind of help you want.
Questions that usually work well
- What is the current story state?
- What is the core conflict right now?
- Help me sort out the clues, foreshadowing, and payoffs here
- Which pair has the strongest relationship tension right now?
- Are there any continuity risks in this section?
- Look up the lore for East Gate
- Summarize the story node "Clocktower Standoff"
- Turn the recent chat into a scene draft
Questions that are easier to answer poorly
- What do you think I should do?
- Just look at this and tell me what's wrong
- Help me think
- You decide what matters most
These are not unusable, but more specific questions usually lead to much better results.
What it is good at, and what it is not
Best for
- checking information that already exists in the project
- summarizing the current state
- finding risks, loose ends, and pressure points
- organizing material into something more usable
- helping you understand the situation before you write
Not ideal for
- replacing the main writing chat for long-form prose
- answering project-specific questions without project context
- inventing missing canon as if it already exists
- guessing the exact target when the character, place, or entry is still too vague
Things to keep in mind
1. It depends on project context
If there is no active project context, many project-specific questions will not work well.
For example:
- What is the current story state?
- What unresolved clues are still open?
- Which relationship is most tense right now?
These depend on the assistant being able to read your project data.
2. It can narrow things down, but it should not replace your judgment
Help Chat is good at:
- narrowing the focus
- gathering evidence
- pointing out likely issues
- organizing what already exists
But final creative decisions are still best made by you.
That is especially true for questions like:
- whether something really counts as foreshadowing
- whether something is a serious continuity bug
- whether a relationship change should be emphasized more
3. Drafts are not automatically saved
If Help Chat prepares:
- a character draft
- a lore draft
- a scene draft
that usually means it generated a draft for review. It does not necessarily mean the result has already been saved into the project.
A good default flow is:
- review it first
- decide whether to keep it
- then revise or save it
4. More specific questions usually produce better answers
For example:
- "Who has He Baizhou's relationship changed with the most recently?"
will usually work better than:
- "Check the relationships for me."
A practical order to use it
When you are working on a scene or chapter, a useful order is often:
- ask for the current story state
- ask about unresolved clues, foreshadowing, or relationship changes
- check continuity risks
- then decide whether to turn recent discussion into a scene draft
This is often much more stable than jumping straight to "write the next scene for me."
One-line summary
Help Chat works best as your story diagnosis, retrieval, organization, and draft-preparation assistant, not as a direct replacement for your main writing chat.