The story plans ahead now, the multi brain pipeline got a lot leaner, and a narrative game finally tracks its own world. This release also folds in a large robustness, security, and accessibility pass from the pre launch sweep.
Headline: the story plans ahead
- A rolling chapter outline (the book plan). It plots a few chapters ahead and writes a fresh one each time a chapter's goal lands, so the arc keeps a shape instead of wandering. It is not another per turn brain: it plans only at the memory fold cadence, so it costs almost nothing per turn.
- A new Plan panel. View the chapters, edit an upcoming chapter's goal to steer the arc, insert, reorder, delete, mark the current chapter done, or regenerate the whole plan. A new setting controls how many chapters to keep ahead (default 4).
Leaner brains, lower token cost
- The Director now plans on a slim context instead of the full writing payload, and skips the chain of thought it does not need. A big cut with no loss of function.
- A one click Cost vs quality control (Economy, Balanced, Quality). Economy is one model call per turn.
- Response length now actually caps output, and the confusing token settings are relabeled. The auto context budget is capped so a huge context model stops dumping its whole window into every call.
- Memory now records the causal chain (what, when, why, and the consequence) for important events only, so the long tail of memory stays cheap.
A narrative game tracks its world
- The world sidecar works with RPG turned off, so a plain story can move the clock, change location, set flags, and reveal secrets on its own.
- The location you move to links to your Locations, so that place's details stay in play as you move around.
Playing and authoring
- Create your own player character at the start of a story, or play as any character in the world.
- Tags and card to card links are now bubbles with autocomplete, and character traits work as tags.
- Creating a world also stocks the reusable Pieces library.
- A control for whether the AI may speak and act as your character (off by default).
- A fixed rule so characters only know what they actually witnessed.
Fixes and hardening
- Stop now truly halts a turn and no longer corrupts the transcript on disk.
- A pre launch sweep fixed five silent data corruption paths, added validate before apply, atomic config writes, and closed lock gaps.
- Security: cross origin mutating requests are refused, and uploads and zip archives are capped against zip bombs.
- A full accessibility pass (keyboard, screen readers, reduced motion, mobile viewport).
Getting it
- Download Coderain-win-x64.zip below for the zero setup Windows app, or run from source (see the README).
- Your existing stories are compatible, and unedited rule files upgrade themselves.