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.
• 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.
• 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.

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, or a folder.

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 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.

In the editor

The Sentinel panel inside the writing editor surfaces the same checks but trimmed to the piece you're currently editing. Use it for fast continuity passes between drafting sessions; use the full tool when you want to scan a whole world at once.

Tuning sensitivity

Each scanner has a sensitivity threshold. Defaults are tuned to be quiet (Sentinel would rather miss a borderline issue than cry wolf), but you can raise sensitivity for the scanners you care most about, and lower it for the noisy ones.

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