A story system that knows the difference between draft and truth.
Bring a chapter from the assistant or model you prefer. Alcove checks it against canon, makes every consequence visible, and waits for your Canon Lock.
Canon after chapter 12
What the story now knows
Character
Maren
kept the archive
Rule
The lantern vow
broken in chapter 12
Bond
Yren ↔ Maren
trust fractured
Place
The lower stacks
now listening
Three ways to write. One way into canon.
Alcove does not ask you to move your creative process into another editor. It gives every chapter the same controlled arrival, checks, review, and lock.
Write in an MCP-capable assistant
Canon context and the full review loop travel with you.
Paste a chapter from any model
No lock-in, no special editor, no charge to attach it.
Generate when you want a hand
A lightweight built-in producer—not the definition of the product.
See the chapter, the checks, and what the world will become.
Canon Lock is not an approval button on a black box. It is the moment where prose, evidence, and proposed state meet the writer’s judgment.
Maren / The Hollow Crown
Break the lantern vow
Intended change
Maren breaks the vow where Yren can see it, choosing the archive over his trust.
Ready to review · 3 changes proposed
Chapter excerpt
2,418 wordsThe vow-light went out between them. Maren felt the archive take notice—not with a sound, but with the sudden weight of every shelf leaning toward the truth.
Checks
3 pass · 1 flag- ContinuityNo contradictions with locked canon
- Intended changeThe vow breaks in public, as planned
- PacingOne later reveal may arrive too early
- Story rulesArchive magic remains internally consistent
Canon Lock is yours
Keep, revise, or set aside each change before this chapter becomes canon.
The infrastructure under a story that keeps becoming itself.
Every surface is downstream of the same locked state. No separate bible, route map, and assistant memory drifting apart.
Read the chapter against the whole story
Continuity, intended-change, pacing, and story-rule checks settle on the exact version under review.
Nothing becomes true by accident
Every chapter and proposed consequence stays reversible until the writer deliberately locks it.
Cast, places, rules, and relationships compound
Locked chapters become structured story state that later chapters and agents can reliably reference.
Branch a timeline without rewriting Main
A Test Save can follow a fix-it, romance route, or divergence while the original history stays intact.
Return to a story that knows what is unfinished
The sharpest thread, latest canon beat, and grounded next moves are ready when you come back.
Let another writer begin from shared canon
A public cartridge can be Remixed into a new private version with attribution back to its source.
Public cartridge
maren / the-hollow-crown
Make this world your own.
Start a private copy with its canon and provenance intact.
Share a living forge, not a teaser card.
A public cartridge exposes its real read-only history—Save Files, canon, threads, Canon Locks, and attached chapters—so another writer can understand it before they Remix.
Private is always the default. Settings and every mutation remain member-only, even on a public cartridge.
The magic moment fits in your hand.
Mobile-first means reviewing checks, deciding changes, locking canon, and steering the next move without waiting to return to a desk.
Review on the go
Read the exact proposal state and every check from a phone.
Resolve what needs judgment
Keep concerns attached to the chapter and canon change they reference.
Continue with context
The next direction arrives from locked canon, not a stale conversation.
Give the next chapter a place to prove it belongs.
Create a cartridge, bring the way you already write, and make your first Canon Lock.