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Surgical Continuity Edit

Product preview: review continuity one chapter at a time, see the evidence and exact proposed patch, and decide what—if anything—BookWriter changes.

This capability is a documented product preview.It is not available until the current BookWriter tool list and interface explicitly show it. The workflow below records the intended author-control and safety contract.
Direct answer

Direct answer

Surgical Continuity Edit is a planned author-controlled review workflow, not a general rewrite. It will inspect one selected chapter against bounded approved continuity, propose the smallest correction for a specific contradiction, and save nothing until the author chooses Apply fix or edits and approves the replacement.

Step by step

The reliable workflow

  1. 1

    Start a source-version review

    Choose the book and explicitly begin continuity review. Opening the workspace alone creates nothing; starting the review records a prose-safe source snapshot.

  2. 2

    Review one chapter

    Open a chapter to see each suspected contradiction, its supporting source, confidence, and the smallest proposed patch.

  3. 3

    Choose for every issue

    Apply the fix, edit the suggestion, keep the original, or ignore the apparent contradiction for this book.

  4. 4

    Approve the exact patch

    BookWriter validates the current chapter version and shows the final before-and-after diff before saving.

  5. 5

    Complete every chapter check

    The assistant records each checked source version—even when it finds no issue—so progress means chapters actually analyzed, not merely issue cards created.

  6. 6

    Revalidate continuity

    A successful patch creates a recoverable chapter version, leaves the writing cursor unchanged, marks suggestions stale wherever their bounded evidence could have changed, and enables a fresh pass against changed prose.

Product preview—not a callable tool yet

This page documents the locked product behavior before general availability. Connected assistants must inspect their current tool list and must not claim that Surgical Continuity Edit is available until BookWriter advertises its scan and patch tools.

Continuity only by default

The review targets conflicting names, ages, relationships, timelines, locations, objects, injuries, roles, world rules, knowledge states, setups, callbacks, and approved canon. It does not polish style, flatten voice, add scenes, or rewrite a chapter merely because another phrasing is possible.

Evidence before correction

Every issue identifies the selected passage, the conflicting approved fact and source, the reason the two cannot both be true, and the exact minimal replacement. A vague preference is not a continuity issue.

Four author decisions

Apply fix uses the shown patch. Edit suggestion lets the author rewrite the replacement first. Keep original closes that proposal without changing prose. Ignore for this book records the exact unchanged passage as intentional so a later pass suppresses the same issue instead of repeatedly raising it.

Truthful progress

Each chapter result is version-and-hash checked and recorded separately from its issue count. The review is not complete until every accepted source-snapshot chapter was checked and no author decision remains.

Versions, limits, and recovery

Every applied fix creates a new accepted-chapter version and preserves the previous one. Stale versions stop instead of force-applying. Editing an earlier chapter never changes the active writing cursor, and an interrupted response is reconciled before retry.

Bounded manuscript access

The planned workflow requests explicit permission to read one selected accepted chapter plus bounded continuity evidence. Status cards remain prose-free, and the entire manuscript is not loaded by default.

Frequently asked

Will Surgical Continuity Edit rewrite my voice?

No. Continuity-only mode is designed to change only the words required to resolve an evidenced contradiction. Larger stylistic or structural work belongs in a separate, explicitly requested workflow.

Can I reject a correct-looking suggestion?

Yes. The author can keep the original, edit the proposed replacement, or mark the apparent contradiction intentional. The assistant does not overrule that decision.

Is this available in the ChatGPT App today?

Not yet. This is a product-preview contract. Availability begins only when the current BookWriter tool list advertises the continuity scan and patch actions.

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Canonical URL: https://www.bookwriter.vip/mcp/guide/surgical-continuity-edit · Updated July 16, 2026