Storing Chat History

Conversations with Claude will be preserved as part of the story’s development record, aligning with Writan’s principle that the story is a process, not a document.

Planned Design

Chat interactions will be logged in the generation layer of the relevant node. The TypeScript shape for this already exists in the schema:

{
  timestamp: string,
  promptSummary: string,
  rulesApplied: string[],
  previousProse: string,
}

Why This Matters

Storing chat history serves the non-destructive editing principle. You’ll be able to trace back to understand:

• What AI assistance was used at each point
• What the text looked like before AI changes
• Which writing rules informed the generation
• The decisions made along the way

Current State

The generation.aiPrompts array exists in the node schema but is not yet populated by any code path. The generation API endpoint returns a promptSummary and usage but does not persist these to the database.