# Novel

> Novel is a local-first AI long-form fiction continuity system. Codex handles writing, reasoning, retrieval decisions, identity resolution, and literary review. Novel separates durable story memory from targeted hybrid recall, combining character/place/event routes with vector semantics before exact-prose verification.

Canonical website: https://xieshu.me/

Chinese product description: Novel 是连接 Codex 与本地小说项目的 AI 长篇连续创作系统，用长期记忆保存故事状态，以人物、地点、事件链路与向量语义进行定向混合召回，再经作者批准发布，让每一章建立在准确历史之上。

Important product boundaries:

- Durable memory and targeted recall are separate: memory preserves story state and provenance; recall retrieves evidence for the current question.
- Planning, summary, relation, hybrid-recall, and exact-read queries share one Session-bound Narrative Order boundary.
- Stable Outline Items connect Current Outline, Chapter links, and immutable progress history.
- Narrative Obligations preserve unresolved promises, clues, goals, and questions with evidence-bound state changes.
- Chapter Trace and Relation Occurrence navigate to exact approved prose; they do not replace Canon or prose.
- The keyword branch follows character, place, and event IDs, names, aliases, Chapter Trace, and Relation Occurrences. The vector branch finds paraphrases and implicit semantic connections.
- Hybrid ranking, deduplication, and adjacent-chunk aggregation produce candidates but never narrative verdicts.
- Draft, Review, author confirmation, Publication Diff, and approval all bind to exact revisions.
- Novel is not an AI model and does not replace the author's editorial authority.

## Product

- [What is Novel](https://xieshu.me/docs/what-is-novel.md): Product definition, responsibilities, and continuity boundaries.
- [Creative workflow](https://xieshu.me/docs/workflow.md): The complete Intent-to-Planning-to-Publish long-form creation loop.
- [Agent workflow](https://xieshu.me/docs/agent-support.md): How Codex and Novel divide creative judgment, evidence retrieval, versioning, and publication responsibility.
- [Website overview](https://xieshu.me/llms-full.txt): Expanded, self-contained product context.

## Human-readable pages

- [Homepage](https://xieshu.me/): Product overview and key differentiators.
- [Workflow](https://xieshu.me/workflow): Eight-stage continuous creation loop.
- [Codex integration](https://xieshu.me/agents/codex): Planning, evidence retrieval, Draft review, and author-approved publication with Codex.
- [Durable Memory](https://xieshu.me/features/long-form-memory): Layered story state, Session-bound Planning Context, provenance, and exact-prose entry points.
- [Outline Progress](https://xieshu.me/features/outline-progress): Stable Outline Items, Chapter links, and immutable progress history.
- [Narrative Obligations](https://xieshu.me/features/story-obligations): Evidence-bound promises, clues, goals, and unresolved questions.
- [Relation Evidence](https://xieshu.me/features/narrative-trace): Revision-bound character, place, event, and narrative-mode evidence.
- [Targeted Hybrid Recall](https://xieshu.me/features/content-recall): Character/place/event route retrieval plus local vector semantics, stable rank fusion, and exact-prose verification.
- [Local-first projects](https://xieshu.me/features/local-first): Durable project memory and isolation.
- [Versioned publishing](https://xieshu.me/features/versioned-publishing): Complete continuity Diff, exact Digest, author approval, and recovery.
- [Continuity architecture](https://xieshu.me/roadmap): Durable memory, targeted hybrid recall, publication, and continuation.
- [FAQ](https://xieshu.me/faq): Direct answers about product, data, and agent support.
- [Contact](https://xieshu.me/contact): Product feedback, support, partnership, and media enquiries.