Companion
Companion is the writing partner inside Skrib. It already knows the draft you are looking at, every other draft in the project, the Plan beside it, and your Library. It suggests. You decide. If you chose the Purist route, none of this chapter exists in your studio, by design.
The drawer
Click the star at the top right and a drawer slides out; the studio stays put. In the header: a collapse arrow, the chat title with a dropdown (your chat history, searchable, each chat auto-named after what happened in it), and a new chat button. At the bottom: a paperclip for attaching a file, the input (“Ask me anything, type @ for selecting context…”), the model picker, and send. Under every reply: good response, bad response, regenerate, 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 and the Context window opens: the current project, your Notes, and from the Library, other Projects and Folders. Arrows navigate, Enter selects, Esc closes. This is how you hand Companion a specific character page, an old project, or a folder of research.
Choosing a model
The picker sits by the input. Today’s lineup: Sonnet 4.6 (the default, balanced), Opus 4.6 (deeper, slower), Gemini 3.5 Flash, and Gemini 3.1 Pro. Every paid tier gets the same models; what varies between plans is monthly Companion credits, and heavier models spend them 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 take the pass with Accept All / Reject All. A counter (“1 / 127”) tracks where you are. Reject restores your wording exactly. One pass can span surfaces: ask for an outline and the Stickies appear on the Plan as suggestions too.
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
- Write a finished manuscript on your behalf.
- 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.