Chapters can now be marked FrontMatter/Body/BackMatter. Number stays
the manuscript sort key for every chapter; the author-facing display
number is now computed per-request as the chapter's ordinal among
Body chapters only, so a foreword or afterword no longer shifts the
numbering of the rest of the book. Surfaced through the API, agent
toolset, and import toolset.
Chapters now carry many Locations (new Tags-style entity with cross-referencing)
instead of a single free-text Setting field, with a Locations tab on the novel
for browsing them and seeing every chapter set at each one. Also surfaces the
distinct characters appearing in a chapter's beats, linked, under the beat/word
count on the outline tab.
Renames the domain concept from Project to Novel throughout the backend
(entities, DTOs, services, endpoints, ProjectAccessService/Permission,
ProjectId foreign keys), MCP server (tool names and routes), and the
React/Vite frontend (types, hooks, routes, components). Adds a new EF
Core migration (RenameProjectToNovel) using RenameTable/RenameColumn to
preserve existing data instead of dropping/recreating tables. Updates
CLAUDE.md's structure section to reference Novels/ instead of Projects/.
Character assignment now lives on beats only, per batch-assign. Drops
Chapter.PovCharacterId (entity, contracts, service, agent/import/MCP
tools, web UI) and the backing column via migration.
Drop the Scene entity/grouping in favor of chapters carrying prose directly
and beats belonging to many characters. Add markdown editor + character
multi-select components to the web client. Remove all XML doc and inline
comments across the touched C#/TS/CSS files in favor of self-documenting
names, and record that convention in CLAUDE.md. Add .mcp.json (local MCP
server config, no secrets) and ignore .idea/.
Dashboard replaces the tabbed overview: Outline + Characters cards
(recent-first), gated by a new Project.Phase (Brainstorming ->
Outlining -> Writing -> Editing -> Complete). Brainstorming shows just
a notes editor; existing projects backfill to Outlining. Old brief
editor moves to a Settings route.
Beat table now renders as plain readable text, turning into editable
fields only for the clicked row. Fixed horizontal overflow on the
chapters list and beat table caused by unconstrained CSS grid/table
tracks sizing to their widest unwrapped child. Widened the project
layout's max width.
Services now return entities; endpoints (and the agent toolsets) map to
*Response records instead of services building wire DTOs themselves.
Also brings in the outline-import agent, MCP tool, ledger and web dialog
that were already in progress on disk.
James Wampler