Companion
Companion is the writing partner inside Skrib. It receives the active view and current project; you can point it at other work when needed. It suggests. You decide. If you chose the Purist route, none of this chapter exists in your studio, by design.
The drawer
Click Companion in the right rail and a drawer slides out; the studio stays put. In the header: a collapse arrow, the chat title with a dropdown, and a new chat button. Chat history is searchable; you can pin up to three chats, reorder them, rename them, delete them, and load older chats. At the bottom: a paperclip for attaching a file, the input (“Ask me anything, type @ for selecting context…”), the model picker, and send. You can also paste an image from the clipboard. Under a reply, use Retry or Copy.
It meets you where you are
A fresh chat greets you by name and offers suggestions that match the screen. On a manuscript Draft: Give me honest feedback · Make an outline on the Plan · Tighten my prose · Proofread my draft · Review Plan and Draft. On the Plan: Plan what comes next · Pressure-test this plan · Pull it into a chapter order. In the Library: Find it in my Library · What do I already have on this · Resurface something worth another look. A screenplay Draft swaps in Tighten my scenes and adds Fix my formatting. On a full-screen PDF: Pull the key points · Find what’s useful for my story · Turn this into Stickies on the Plan. And always: What can you do?
Pointing it at things: @
Type @ in the input to add a specific Draft, Note, project, folder, or supported Library file. Arrows navigate, Enter selects, Esc closes. This is the clearest way to tell Companion exactly which material should guide the answer.
Choosing a model
The picker sits by the input. Today’s lineup: Sonnet 5 (the default), Opus 4.8, Gemini 3.5 Flash, and Gemini 3.1 Pro. Paid Companion plans include the same model choices; what varies is the monthly credit allowance, and heavier models spend credits faster. Your default for new chats is set in Settings, Companion.
Suggestions: green, orange, red
Companion never edits silently. Every proposed change lands in your document as a marked suggestion:
| Color | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Green highlight | New text Companion wants to insert. |
| Orange highlight | A replacement: new wording in place of yours. |
| Red strikethrough | Your original, always shown above the orange so you see exactly what changes. |
Accept or Reject each one, or use the review controls for the current view. When changes span views, move page by page and accept or reject each page. Reject restores your wording exactly. On the Plan, generated or rearranged items receive their own Accept or Reject review bar.
Making it yours
Settings, Companion holds Personalisation: your default model, an Adapt to my writing toggle (“suggestions follow how you naturally write, you stay in control, always”), and Companion Instructions: custom instructions, your name, more about you. Each project can carry its own instructions on top, set from the project’s More info card.
What Companion will not do
- Make any change you have not seen and approved.
- Train on your work. Your writing is yours. Skrib does not use your work to train AI models.