Conflicts and impact
CanonTracker checks accepted canon for contradictions you would otherwise find in playtest or in a reader’s email. Before you change a fact, it shows which other facts and scenes depend on it.
Conflicts with the rule that found them
Deterministic rules flag a character in two places at the same time, an approximate overlap, a trip that is faster than the known travel time, a relationship used after it ended, and a character acting after their death. The AI can also suggest world-rule violations; those are labelled as AI suggestions.
- Hard and soft severity, so the real breaks come first
- Decide each one: confirm, false positive or uncertain, with a reason
- Both facts and both sources side by side
Impact before you change canon
Propose a change to a canon fact and CanonTracker lists the facts and scenes it may touch, up to two steps away within accepted canon. Each item shows the path, the evidence and why it is listed. If nothing turns up, it says “no impact found”, not “no impact”.
- Accept and apply, or reject; an applied change can be reverted
- Impacted scenes become re-review tasks
- Export the impact list as JSON, CSV or Markdown
Start with a finished story
Create a studio and load The Ashbell Pass or Broken Tide: real documents, AI candidates to review and planted contradictions to find. Or run CanonTracker on your own server; it is open source.