Consistency Sentinel

The Consistency Sentinel reads your draft against your world’s bible and reports continuity slips. It’s a Pro worldbuilding tool, working alongside the World Bible, the Time Weaver, the Lexicon Engine, and the Relationship Web.

As of May 2026, the Sentinel also runs the POV and Tense checks that used to live in a separate tool. There’s no standalone POV Checker any more. Open Sentinel, and the POV and Tense reports are tabs inside the same dashboard.

What it watches for

The Sentinel runs a set of independent scanners. Each one looks for a specific category of mistake and reports findings you can dismiss, jump to, or act on.

• Name drift: “Sally” mentioned five times, “Salli” mentioned once. The single misspelling is flagged with the line it appears on. Stray punctuation and short, unrelated capitalized words (a dialogue “Uh”, a sentence starting “Fit”) are not treated as name variants, so the list stays focused on real near-misses.
• POV drift: a piece written in first-person that slips into third person in one paragraph, or a tight third-person POV that briefly head-hops. Dialogue is ignored: a character speaking in first or second person inside quotes (“I want you to leave”) never reads as a narration shift.
• Tense shift: past-tense narration that slips into present, or vice versa.
• Attribute conflict: your draft says Lupin has blue eyes; the World Bible entry says grey.
• World-bible gaps: proper nouns in your draft that don’t match any entry. A new character you’ve forgotten to add, or a typo that almost matches an existing entry.
• Timeline sequencing: events referenced in the draft in an order that contradicts the Time Weaver.
• Relationship consistency: the draft treats two characters as siblings, the bible has them as cousins.
• Tenet violations: prose that seems to break a rule of one of your world’s systems. Your magic system’s tenet says “iron nullifies spells”, and a scene lets a spell land on an iron blade. Only the tenets you mark for the Sentinel to watch are checked.
• Faction diplomacy: two factions you’ve scored as allied in the Relationship Web whose people are written as enemies. It flags the contradiction on the relationship itself (allied score, hostile type) and in your prose, where members of two allied factions who are recorded as rivals share a scene.

Each scanner reports separately, so you can act on the categories that matter to you and skip the rest.

Running a check

Open Sentinel from Tools (or the editor tools panel), pick a world, and choose what to scan: a single piece, a series, a folder, or the whole world.

If you have nothing to scan yet, Sentinel points you straight to the two things that give it something to read: Import a manuscript, or Start writing. Bring in a draft, then come back. If you have a world but no pieces, Sentinel steers you to the world scan instead, since your world already has something to check.

Once you’ve chosen, the dashboard shows each scanner’s findings with a count, a severity, and a “jump to” link that scrolls the editor to the line in question. The category chips at the top jump you to a section (“Name Variants”, “POV Drift”, and so on) without scrolling.

The POV and Tense reports each have their own tab. They share the same dashboard layout as the rest of the scanners, so the workflow is consistent: scan, review, apply, dismiss.

Check the whole world (world health)

Pick the world scope to scan your world’s structure rather than a manuscript. Instead of reading prose, it reads the shape of your bible and reports two kinds of slip:

• Orphan entries: an entry nothing else points at. Not always a problem, but often a sign of a page you started and forgot to wire in. The finding links straight to the entry so you can connect it, link it from somewhere, pin it on a map, or retire it.
• One-sided links: entry A points at B, but B says nothing about A. The finding opens B, the entry that owes the link back, so the connection reads both ways.

World health counts every kind of connection your world already tracks: linked entries, parent and location hierarchy, names mentioned in prose, relationships, system membership, template fields, and a map pin that points at an entry. So a place that is only ever reached by being pinned on a map, or a character who only appears as a faction member, no longer reads as an orphan. There is no one-click “fix” here, by design: world health points you to the page that needs attention and lets you decide.

In the editor

The Sentinel panel inside the writing editor surfaces the same checks, trimmed to the piece you’re currently editing. It has the same findings list, the same category chips, the same dismiss and jump actions, and the POV and Tense deep dives. Triage everything right there in the panel. When you want the same report in its own tab (to keep it open beside the editor), “Open full tool” takes you to that exact scan, not a fresh start. Use the full tool when you want to scan a whole world at once.

Tuning the scanners

Open the Scanners panel. It sits under the findings in both the in-editor panel and the full tool. There you can:

• Turn any scanner off. If a category is noise for the way you write (you head-hop on purpose, or you keep names deliberately similar), switch it off and it stops reporting. Everything else keeps running.
• Set a sensitivity for the scanners that support one: Quiet, Balanced (the default), or Strict.
  • Quiet reports only the surest issues. It wants near-identical spellings before calling a name a variant, weighs in on POV and tense only in longer pieces, ignores one-off capitalized words as world-bible gaps, and limits relationship checks to outright contradictions.
  • Balanced is the tuning Sentinel ships with: quiet enough to stay out of your way, alert enough to catch real slips.
  • Strict casts the widest net. It reaches further on long-name misspellings and speaks up on shorter pieces. Use it on the scanners you care most about.

A few scanners are on or off only. The timeline checks and attribute conflicts are exact, structural comparisons, so there is nothing in between to loosen or tighten.

Your settings are saved to your account and applied on the next scan, everywhere Sentinel runs.

The prose scanners (name drift, POV, tense, world-bible gaps) are currently tuned for English-language manuscripts.

See also: World Bible, Entity Templates, Relationship Web.