Keep manuscript context and agent revisions out of disposable chats.
Authors revising long-running manuscript projects
Chapter twelve should not need chapters one to eleven explained again.
Open the manuscript folder and describe the revision boundary. Readable project memory holds the characters, the timeline and your rules, sessions persist, and every revision is a version you can step back to.
Free for one person on your Mac, no card. Your model provider bills you directly.
What changes
Now
You paste the same background into every writing session, and the chat that knew why the second act changed is buried in a list.
With Bandicot
The project holds the context. The agent proposes a revision inside the boundary you set, you read the diff, and any version of any chapter is a restore away.
What it takes to begin
No pasting the same background into every writing session.
A Mac
Bandicot is a Mac app. The work happens in your folders, on your machine.
A folder
Keep files, context, plans and decisions with the project instead of losing them in a disposable chat.
manuscript-context/A model
A local model, an OpenAI-compatible endpoint, or a hosted provider you sign in to. The provider bills you directly.
Free
For one person on your Mac. Every plan has every capability.
Three steps to a first result
Open the manuscript folder and describe the revision boundary.
Name the folder and the job
Keep manuscript context and agent revisions out of disposable chats.
manuscript-context/It asks before it writes
Turn a vague request into an inspectable sequence of steps before tools begin changing the project.
Keep it, or put it back
Every changed file is recorded, and undoing a run puts its files back with one click.
Same question, different tool
A chat box answers. Bandicot does the work in your folders, asks before it writes, and keeps a version of every change.
In a chat boxA model and a text box, with no gate before a write.
In BandicotA trusted harness around the modelBandicot gives every agent a project, tools, a session that survives restarts, approvals, and a clear place to stop.
In a chat boxA conversation. The files stay wherever you copied them from.
In BandicotProjects that hold the workKeep files, context, plans, and decisions with the project instead of losing them in a disposable chat.
In a chat boxClose the tab and the thread is somewhere in a list.
In BandicotDurable work sessionsClose the window, restart, or pick up from another of your Macs without turning the work into a brand-new conversation.
In a chat boxIt suggests an edit and you apply it yourself, so there is no gate to read.
In BandicotA human gate for writesWhen work can change files or systems, Bandicot makes the decision visible before the effect lands.
What a session leaves behind
Durable sessions and readable memory belong to the project, and restore and undo preview the change before they apply it.
bandicot
- Asked
- Keep manuscript context and agent revisions out of disposable chats
- Before it wrote
- It asked, and waited for your answer
- Files kept
- historyversion kept
- plan.mdversion kept
- projectversion kept
- Stands behind
- A restore stops before changing files if two names would collapse into one on your Mac
- The Versions command line can return JSON
- Command-line restore and undo preview changes before applying them
- Paid to Bandicot
- Free
- Model bill
- from your provider
Revisit a manuscript with its working notes nearby.
The project holds the context. The agent proposes a revision inside the boundary you set, you read the diff, and any version of any chapter is a restore away.
If it is not for you
No contract. Cancel any time from your account and keep the plan until the end of the period you paid for.
Your files stay yours
The agent does its work in your own folders on your Mac, so the files are yours to keep.
Start without paying
The free plan has every capability for one profile, and asks for no card.
Put a run back
Every changed file is a version, so a run you regret is one click from undone.
Checked, and labelled
Each line says whether it ships now or is still being built, so you never buy a promise.
- Available now
A version for every change
Every file an agent changes is recorded, with diffs, restore, undo of a whole run, and a slider that puts a folder back to any moment.
- Available now
Approval before writes
An agent asks before it writes, runs or spends outside the rules you set; the rules live in one permissions file.
- Available now
Any model, one project
Switch between hosted providers and local models without rebuilding the project around one lab.
- Available now
A restore stops before changing files if two names would collapse into one on your Mac.
A Mac’s disk usually treats README.md and readme.md as the same name.
- Available now
The Versions command line can return JSON.
It prints plain text by default and JSON with --json.
- Available now
Command-line restore and undo preview changes before applying them.
Restore and undo show what would change first, and change files only when run again with --yes.
The Manuscript Home
Every line below is already in the plan. Nothing here is an extra you pay for.
- Readable project notes for the characters, the timeline and your rulesincluded
- Sessions that survive a restartincluded
- A plan for each revision passincluded
- A version of every text-file edit, restored after a previewincluded
- Lasting lessons saved as short lines in the project handbookincluded
Free for one person on your Mac, no card. Your model provider bills you directly.
No contract. Cancel any time from your account and keep the plan until the end of the period you paid for.
Chapter twelve should not need chapters one to eleven explained again.
Free for one person on your Mac, no card. Your model provider bills you directly.