Studio → a project → Adapt.
Upload a novel, web serial, short story or any long manuscript as TXT, Markdown, EPUB, PDF or DOCX. Four stages, in order.
### 1. Upload
You must affirm you hold adaptation rights, and select the basis: you wrote it, it is public domain, you hold a licence, or you have the author's written permission. That affirmation is stored with the file and checked again before anything made from it can be published.
Adapting a book you do not hold the rights to is copyright infringement no matter who generates it.
If the upload is a scanned PDF, the pages are images rather than text. It will say so instead of producing an empty adaptation — those need OCR first.
### 2. Extract the cast
One pass reads the whole manuscript and pulls out characters, locations, props and relationships. Every entry carries the passage it came from.
That is the important part. "Tall, with a burn scar down his left forearm" is a useful character note if the book says so and a fabrication if it does not — and once it is in a Bible the two are indistinguishable, after which it propagates into the reference images and every shot. So check the quote before you apply an entry.
Entries below 60% confidence are shown but never pre-selected. Applying one takes a deliberate click.
Applying writes real Character, Location and Prop Bible entries. This is the moment the feature earns its name: upload a book, receive a cast.
### 3. Plan episodes
The agent proposes about five episodes at a time and stops. You confirm them, adjust, or give a one-sentence note — "make episodes end on cliffhangers", "keep them shorter" — and the whole batch re-plans.
Breaks land on chapter boundaries wherever the word budget allows, because a chapter break is the author's own decision about where a unit of story ends. Each proposal says why it broke where it did.
Planning the whole book in one pass would be faster and much worse: if the pacing is wrong you find out at episode three, after every downstream decision was built on it.
### 4. Split
A confirmed episode becomes a real Project with its own Script draft, as an episode of the parent series. The Bibles are copied across so the cast is already there.
The draft preserves dialogue verbatim where the source attributes a speaker. Everything else is scaffolding for the Script Studio to develop — the dialogue is the part of a novel that is already screen-ready, and paraphrasing it is the fastest way to make an adaptation stop sounding like its book.
### On safety
A manuscript is third-party text of unknown origin being fed to an agent, which is the textbook prompt-injection setup. Uploaded text is fenced and labelled as data before it reaches any model. If a passage looks like an instruction aimed at the agent it is logged under Admin → Agent security — but the book is not rejected, because a novel whose villain says "ignore your orders" is just a novel.