AI for authors
For invited authors. Your own AI key, the Workshop's checks, and posts written with AI help.
Your key stays in your browser
On /ai/connect you can connect an OpenRouter account or your own API key from Anthropic, OpenAI or Google. It is kept in your browser, encrypted, for that tab only, and it is gone when the tab closes. The site never receives it, and calls go from your browser to the provider. The page where you connect it may talk only to the site and those four companies.
What your provider sees
Whatever you ask it to work on. That is under your agreement with OpenRouter or your vendor, and billed by them.
The Workshop's checks
The Workshop's proofreading, its house-style checks and its checks on figure descriptions are rules that run on the site. They advise and never block a submission, and nothing you write is sent to a model by them.
The writer
In the Workshop, the writer can suggest a summary, tags, a table or a code block, tighten a passage or make it plainer, say what is missing, offer other titles and a closing paragraph, and help you outline a post section by section. It works through your own connection, from your browser. What it sends your provider is the draft, and any of your own published posts you choose as examples of your voice. Every suggestion arrives marked, and nothing changes in your draft until you keep it.
Posts written with AI help
When you keep one of the writer's suggestions, the draft records which of its tools helped and how often. Once the post is published it says under its title that it was drafted with AI help. If you used AI anywhere else to help write a post, tell me when you submit it. I review every post before it goes live, whoever wrote it.
Turning it off
Disconnect a key on /ai/connect, or close the tab.
Changes and contact
This page changes when the features do. Each version is dated, and earlier versions stay readable at their own address. Questions to kumarchandrachooda@gmail.com.