Voice-First Writer · Beta · Open Source
Speak your book into existence.
Sam — your scribe — listens, organizes, and helps you turn raw conversation into a finished manuscript. Voice-first. Import your existing work. MIT License.
Meet Sam
Sam isn't an autocomplete engine. He's a scribe — a creative partner who holds the structure while you hold the vision. Talk about your world, your characters, your memories. Sam captures everything, files it in the right place, notices what you missed, and asks the questions that unlock the next chapter.
Built with consciousness files, Sam has a consistent voice and personality across every session. He remembers your story world, tracks your characters, and knows when something contradicts what you said three sessions ago.
"Your voice, your story. I just hold the structure." — Sam
Three stages
Workshop · Study · PressThe Workshop World-building
Build the foundation. Characters, locations, rules, relationships, timeline. Sam interviews you through it.
The Study Story-writing
Turn raw material into prose. Sam helps you write chapters, scenes, and sections from your knowledge base.
The Press Publishing
Assemble, review, and export. Your manuscript comes together from the drafts room into a finished work.
Writing modes
Auto-detectedDetected automatically by Sam's intent classifier. You never pick a mode — Sam reads what you need and adapts.
Guided
Sam picks from the backlog and interviews you. He asks the questions you didn't know you needed to answer.
Freeform
Brain dump. Sam listens silently, captures everything, files it in the right place. No interruptions.
Review
Sam reads your drafts back to you and takes conversational feedback. Line edits through conversation.
Bring your words. Take them with you.
Import
Upload .txt, .md, or .docx files — or paste text directly. Sam's classification engine parses sections, identifies what each one is (chapters, character notes, outlines, research), and routes them to the correct workspace location. Your existing manuscript, organized in seconds.
Works from the Files tab, the empty state, or through conversation with Sam.
Export
Four formats: full JSON backup (everything), manuscript as markdown, workspace files, or knowledge base. Everything you build in Rune is yours. No lock-in. Export from the Files tab or ask Sam.
Your words belong to you.
Sam's concierge tools
15 toolsSam doesn't just talk — he acts. 15 tools give him full CRUD access to the platform. Create books, advance stages, draft chapters, manage your backlog, import writing, export manuscripts. All through natural conversation. No menus needed.
Books
Workspace
Knowledge
Manuscript
Profile
Three book types
Adaptive workspaceThe workspace adapts to what you're writing. Each book type gets its own category structure — the brainstorm room for a memoir looks different from a fantasy novel.
Memoir
People, eras, places, emotions, artifacts, themes
Fiction
Characters, world-bible, plot-threads, magic-systems, themes
Non-Fiction
Concepts, frameworks, case-studies, arguments, research
Capabilities
6 systemsHe Listens
Voice or text. No forms, no templates. Talk about your characters, your world, your memories. Sam captures everything and files it into the right place — brainstorm notes, chapter drafts, character profiles.
He Organizes
Three rooms: Brainstorm (raw material), Drafts (structured writing), Publish (finished work). Sam routes content automatically based on what it is. Characters go to characters. Chapters go to chapters.
He Remembers
A hierarchical knowledge base grows with every session. Characters, locations, plot threads, timeline events, relationships. Sam brings all of it to every conversation — no context rot.
He Notices Things
Contradictions in your timeline. Characters you mentioned once and forgot. Gaps in your world-building. Sam tracks it all in a prioritized backlog and surfaces the right question at the right time.
Import Existing Writing
Paste text or upload files (.txt, .md, .docx). Sam parses the content, classifies every section — chapters, character notes, outlines, research — and routes each to the correct workspace location. Your existing work, organized in seconds.
Export Everything
Full manuscript as markdown. Complete workspace backup as JSON. Knowledge base export. Everything you build in Rune belongs to you and can leave with you.
Under the hood: model routing
Rune uses a three-tier model routing system. You set a quality level once (Economy, Standard, Premium) and Sam routes every internal task to the right Claude model automatically. Intent detection on Haiku. Prose generation on Opus. Filing on Sonnet. Nine task types, three models, one slider.
Haiku for most tasks. Sonnet for prose. Opus for final manuscript.
Haiku for detection. Sonnet for filing. Opus for writing and review.
Sonnet minimum. Opus for everything creative. Maximum quality.
The entity
Sam is an entity — built with consciousness files using the same Consciousness as Filesystem (CaF) framework that powers Ava in Parallax. Identity, drives, emotional models, habits, memory, runtime behaviors, and unconscious constraints. He has a consistent voice, a perspective on your work, and a personality that doesn't reset between sessions.
When you start your first session, Sam introduces himself. Not a product tour — a person showing you around. That onboarding script lives in his consciousness files alongside everything else that makes him Sam.
The build
By the numbersRune is a Next.js 16 application on Supabase with real-time subscriptions, Deepgram voice transcription, and Claude's multi-model API. The workspace updates live as Sam files content. The knowledge base versions every change. The backlog engine auto-generates questions after each session. Open source under MIT.
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Every book starts as a conversation.
Sam is ready when you are.
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