Lens

Lens is a feedback mode inside Chat. It lets you ask one or more editorial personas to respond to your prose, or generate a structured Reader Reactions report for a chosen audience.

When to use it

• You want to know how a passage lands
• You’re unsure if an emotional beat works
• You want perspectives beyond your own

How to use it

1. Open Chat from the editor header
2. Select text first if you want to focus on a particular passage
3. In the Chat composer, type @ and choose a Lens persona
4. Add more personas if you want several perspectives
5. Ask your question and send the message
6. Hover or focus a Lens response’s source control to highlight the passage it analyzed when that source is available

Lens uses the editor context captured when you send the message. It does not run as a separate toolbar scan with Selection, Current view, or Everything scopes.

Personas

Choose from Critic, Cheerleader, Poet, Editor, Plotter, and Reader. Each persona approaches the same passage from a different editorial perspective.

When several personas are active, choose how they respond:

• Normal — each selected perspective responds
• Debate — personas challenge one another’s readings
• Synthesize — combine the perspectives into one direction
• Debate & Synthesize — debate first, then draw the feedback together

Reader Reactions

Choose Reader reactions from the Lens response-mode menu when you want an audience-oriented report rather than persona feedback. Available audiences include general readers, fantasy readers, book club readers, creative writing students, and literary magazine editors.

The report can show what readers may remember and the questions they may ask. Where Feldar can map a reaction back to the current page, hover or focus it to highlight the relevant source text.

Continue the conversation

Lens responses live in the Chat session. Ask follow-up questions, request examples, or switch back to ordinary Chat by removing Lens mode. Lens feedback does not change your draft automatically.

Tips

• Select a focused passage before sending when you want line-level feedback
• Name the concern in your prompt: pacing, emotional clarity, suspense, voice, or another craft question
• Use Checks for mechanical and clarity issues, then Lens for interpretation and reader response
• Treat every response as advice, not a mandate