CHAPTER 01
Product Boundaries and Three Core Principles
Understand author control, candidate output, and retrieval limits.
NovelFlow is a local desktop writing workspace that keeps prose, outlines, story data, graphs, memory, Skills, and Agent workflows in one project. Model output remains a proposal; the author makes the final decision.
Keep three rules in mind:
- Author content has priority. The current instruction, author outline, and confirmed canon outrank AI reference material.
- Review candidates before writing. Generated prose and proposed data changes enter a candidate card and reach project data only after confirmation.
- Retrieve long-form context as needed. A large manuscript stays local. Each task receives selected relevant passages and exposes a ledger of what was sent.
Naturalness scores, reviews, and automated checks are supporting evidence. They do not guarantee flawless prose, perfect continuity, or fully automatic book creation.
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