Turn instinct into visible structure
Move from discovery and lessons into planning, screenplay work and evidence-backed revision without losing authorship.
Open-source visual story studio
From first idea to the screen. Keep every decision yours.
Learn the craft, shape a screenplay and plan the path to screen in one local-first workspace built for writers and filmmakers.
The Human remains the author. AI can explain, suggest, draft, visualize and test ideas, but generated material never silently becomes canon.
HUMAN AUTHORAI OPTIONALLOCAL FIRSTWRITER CONTROLLED
PRE-RELEASE PlotPickle is under active development. There is no public Windows installer yet.
HUMAN AUTHORITY · ACTIVEEXPERIENCEVISIBLE WORKSPACES
01Explore
Learn · Community · Library
02Develop
Discover · Write · Edit
03Visualize
Story · Outline · Storyboard · Previs · Timeline · Production
04Review
Feedback · Refine · Analytics
05Pitch
Package · Deck
06Play
Identity · Wyrmwood · Written
07System
Settings · Service · Legal
One story · three ways in
Built for the people who write, direct and build story tools.
PlotPickle turns an ambitious story workflow into a legible path: learn what matters, make explicit creative decisions, connect those decisions to screen work and keep the record portable.
Carry intent toward the screen
Connect story decisions to Storyboard, Previs, Timeline and Production using stable story coordinates.
Inspect the system, not a sales promise
Read the source, architecture, evidence contracts and active development work directly on GitHub.
Follow the build in public.See current code, issues and exact development evidence—not a black-box product promise.
Explore PlotPickle on GitHub →The current user-facing experience
Matrix organizes the work without becoming the story authority.
Explore, Develop, Visualize, Review, Pitch, Play and System form the current top-level map. Learn, Community and Library remain visible parts of the workflow, while story development continues through writing, visual planning, review, presentation and playable-story work.
This is the governed experience map, not a claim that every inventoried or in-transit surface is complete or publicly released.
DISCOVER→WRITE→EDIT→STORY→OUTLINE→STORYBOARD→PREVIS→TIMELINE→PRODUCTION
Latest from the public repository
What changed—and what it actually proves.
Source reviewed October 21, 2026 at commit 0bc50e3f. PlotPickle separates merged code, automated evidence and observed product behavior so progress stays credible.
The real browser journey is now profile-bound
Recent source changes make Story Factory verification select the exact active Human profile and project session. The gated native Windows browser journey exists; a fresh live pass is still required before claiming end-to-end proof.
Read PR #3199 →Safer repair work, with evidence before trust
Authenticated Windows tooling can stage and attest exact PR candidates, reject dirty or blocked work and preserve bounded receipts. This advances the governed repair cycle; unattended end-to-end repair remains roadmap work.
Track Factory #3110 →Wyrmwood is being fitted into Matrix
The latest source update targets Wyrmwood panel overflow inside the Matrix host while preserving host navigation. Source and CI evidence are green; real 838px browser geometry remains to be observed.
Read PR #3200 →Roadmap · continuously improving PlotPickle Factory
Build the software. Expand the learning. Help real stories evolve.
The Factory vision connects governed software repair, vetted craft and filmmaking knowledge, and source-grounded story coordination. It is a development roadmap—not a claim that unattended repair, automatic story improvement or paid production runs are already available.
Read the three-part Factory roadmap →The 24 / 96 mathematical narrative model
A stable address for every part of the story.
PlotPickle converts normalized story time into a shared coordinate system. It lets learning, writing, visual development, feedback and production refer to the same structural region without forcing the story into a rigid template.
01Runtimethe whole story
→0212 sequencesnarrative movement
→0324 Story Blocksstable regions
→0496 Mini-Blocksprecise evidence
→05Production / timecodescreen coordinates
Five minutes per Block. Seventy-five seconds per Mini-Block.
These durations are normalized reference regions. Scenes, beats and shots may span, compress or cross them whenever the story requires.
Stable structural addresses, not creative handcuffs.24 Blocks → 96 Mini-Blocks → 2,400 technical three-second render slots.
The grid supports stable production addresses and surgical regeneration. It does not mean 2,400 clips must be generated or stored up front.
Regenerate the failed slot, not the entire scene.PlotPickle Score
Deterministic structural measurement, with limits you can see.
PlotPickle Score measures available structural evidence across five transparent dimensions. When evidence is insufficient, the result is NR / Not Rated instead of a fabricated number.
The score is not an AI-authorship detector and never replaces Human creative judgment. Human-written, AI-assisted, generated and imported material use the same evidence contract.
Your room · your rules
AI is a choice, not the price of entry.
Write without a model
Use the curriculum, story structure, review tools and project record without connecting AI.
Invite help deliberately
Ask a local or chosen cloud model to explain, explore, test or visualize. You decide what survives.
Give each helper a job
Named Agents combine a bounded role, relevant context and focused skills without becoming the author.
AI may offer material. Only the Human can make it canon. DRAFT ≠ DECISION
Ollama, llama.cpp and compatible endpoints
Choose models that run on your own hardware or a private endpoint.
ComfyUI and whisper.cpp
Use optional local image/video workflows and local dictation where configured.
Cloud / BYOK and LM Studio
Cloud providers remain deliberate choices. LM Studio may be used as a compatible connection; it is not described as open source.
STORY: The Unwritten
Stories you can play—without creating a second canon.
PlotPickle's reusable playable-story engine can run a deterministic five-scene story, validate player actions, resolve creator rules, save and resume sessions and route selected outcomes back through the existing PPF proposal boundary.
AI may interpret or propose. Deterministic STORY code decides mechanical state. Only the existing Human-controlled admission path can make an outcome durable canon.
Seven canonical architectural layers
One system, with authority boundaries that stay visible.
The public explanation follows the repository architecture rather than inventing a second version of it. Presentation can change; story authority, provider choice and validation boundaries remain explicit.
Experience Skins
Replaceable presentation for an audience or device.
Expanded Experience Layer
The stable product contract behind every Skin.
Governed Production Orchestration
Authority, consent, lifecycle and execution control.
Agent & Skill Mesh
Specialists collaborating within approved scope.
Story, Canon & Evidence Core
Deterministic story state and one durable canon authority.
AI / Provider Runtime
Replaceable local and cloud inference routes.
Validation & Operations
Independent evidence, diagnostics and release checks.
Community · BUZZ · signed history
A writers' hall without a back door into your story.
Meet people in the Great Hall, continue focused work in Story Rooms and discover official PlotPickle Agents through BUZZ. Community material remains separate from canon until the Human deliberately brings it into the governed approval path.
- Private story work never uploads automatically
- Sharing is explicit and destination-specific
- Human and Agent authorship remains attributable
- Community presence never becomes peer compute access
Built in the open
Open source is part of the architecture, not a footnote.
The repository records the software, tools and reference work that materially contribute to PlotPickle. The machine-readable inventory is authoritative for usage, source, version evidence and licence scope.
ReactViteVinextTailwind CSSMastraVercel AI SDKDrizzle ORMlibsodiumJetBrains MonoBUZZOllamallama.cppwhisper.cppComfyUIFFmpeg / ffprobeLazy FramesPortlessPi coding agentCline
Supported does not automatically mean open source. LM Studio and configured proprietary or cloud services are kept outside the OSS inventory rather than being misclassified.
Questions writers and filmmakers ask
PlotPickle, without the pitch fog.
What is PlotPickle?
PlotPickle is an open-source visual writing and creative-direction studio that connects learning, story planning, screenplay work, visual development, review and playable-story systems around one project record.
Does PlotPickle require AI?
No. Writers can use the curriculum, structure, review tools and project record without connecting a model. Local or cloud AI is optional and generated material remains a proposal until the Human accepts it.
Can I download PlotPickle today?
Not yet. PlotPickle is in active pre-release development and there is no public Windows installer. Developers can inspect and run the repository from source.
What is the 24 / 96 story model?
It is PlotPickle's normalized coordinate system: 12 sequences, 24 Story Blocks and 96 Mini-Blocks give learning, writing, feedback and production a shared address without forcing scenes into a rigid template.
Is PlotPickle open source?
Yes. PlotPickle is licensed AGPL-3.0-or-later. The public repository records the source, architecture and machine-readable third-party software inventory.
PRE-RELEASE · OPEN SOURCE · AGPLv3
Your story is not a prompt. It is a world taking shape.
Learn the craft. Make the decisions. See the story take shape.
There is no public PlotPickleSetup.exe or downloadable Windows installer yet. Follow the repository and Blog for reviewed release progress.