How Inkora AI Works
You write. Inkora helps. Every AI feature in Inkora is built around one rule: offer directions, explanations, and questions — never decide the story for you.
1 min read · Updated 1 October 2026
What context it uses#
When the AI needs to know about your story — for Ask Inkora, the continuity checker, or Story Insights — it's given your character bible, relationships, locations, worldbuilding, objects, factions, world rules, character arcs, timeline, plot, your confirmed story notes, and excerpts from each chapter (the beginning and end of long chapters, not always the full middle, to keep things manageable). It is never given your entire manuscript as one block of text.
Canon vs Draft#
Canon relationships and notes are treated as true. Draft ones are shown too, but in a clearly separate section the AI is explicitly told never to treat as fact — so trying out a speculative idea never risks it quietly becoming "true" in the AI's eyes.
What it can't know#
Anything you haven't written down or logged. If a question's answer isn't in your story bible or manuscript, Ask Inkora says so directly rather than inventing a plausible-sounding answer.
Why it sometimes says "this isn't established"#
This is deliberate, not a limitation to work around. A fabricated answer that sounds right is worse than an honest "I don't know" — it could quietly become something you believe is true about your own story when it isn't.
Asking better questions#
Specific questions get specific answers — "When did Daniel and Sarah first meet?" works better than "Tell me about Daniel and Sarah." If an answer comes back thin, it usually means that detail genuinely isn't logged anywhere yet, which is itself useful to know.
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Ask Inkora
Ask grounded questions about your own story — who knows a secret, when two characters met, what's still unresolved.
Canon vs Draft
Marking a relationship or idea as confirmed fact versus something you're only trying out.
Objects, Factions & World Rules
Tracking significant items, organizations, and the rules that govern your world.
