v0.1.0 — Public Beta

Autonym v0.1.0 — Public Beta

Autonym is a desktop app for solo roleplay and collaborative story-writing with AI, built
around structured character sheets, lorebooks, and full control over how context is spent —
instead of one long freeform prompt. This is the first public beta.

This is a beta. Core writing, characters, and worldbuilding are solid and daily-driver
ready, but expect rough edges, and please report anything that breaks.

Meet Nym

New installs now open with a proper in-app introduction instead of dropping you on a blank
screen: Nym, Autonym's mascot, greets you with a full demo setup — a cast character, a
sample universe ("The Between") with a linked lorebook entry, a demo scenario, and an already
-started chat that shows off every formatting marker in real use.

Guided onboarding tour

A step-by-step tour (launchable anytime from Settings → Take the Tour) walks through every
part of the app in order — Home, Cast, Universes, Lorebooks, Acts (chat), Improvise, and
Settings — spotlighting the actual UI element it's describing on the page it lives on, narrated
in Nym's voice.

Personas

Settings now has a full Personas section — create, edit, and delete the personas you play as
across your Acts. (The backend already supported this; there was just no way to reach it from
the UI until now.)

Improvise, reorganized

Scenario Maker is now Improvise, and Skit creation — hand a cast member and a length to the
AI and let it write an entire scene unattended — has moved out of the chat sidebar into its own
section here, so you no longer need to already be inside an Act to start one.

Context-window tooling

• Scene Memory (context length) now caps to the selected model's real maximum instead of
  accepting an arbitrary number, and re-clamps automatically if you switch to a smaller-context
  model.
• A warning now appears as an Act approaches its context limit, with a direct way to continue
  the story in a fresh Act.
• Compact Older Messages lets you summarize an Act's earlier turns into a running summary in
  place, instead of only being able to fork to a new Act.

Fixes and polish

• Fixed a formatting bug where an unclosed "dialogue" quote could swallow a *action* or
  ~thought~ marker that followed it on the same line, rendering the literal asterisks/tildes
  as bold text instead of parsing them.
• Cast page: reordered the character form to lead with identity, redesigned the avatar picker,
  added collapsible sections and auto-growing text fields.
• Lorebooks can now be scoped to a Universe.
• Wiki/text import for new characters is now a single fetch-and-organize step.
• Universe and Lorebook pages auto-select the first item instead of landing on an empty
  "select one" screen.
• Switched body text to Manrope and fixed several low-contrast UI states.
• Fixed Group Scenes: a speaker-cue leak, shallow cast depth, and no way to manually correct
  who's speaking.

Links

• Website: autonym.app
• GitHub: autonymapp/autonym
• Issues / feedback: github.com/autonymapp/autonym/issues