Introduction

Installing Orihai

What it needs, where on your disk your stories are kept, and how to back them up or move them to another machine.

Models and keys

Orihai AI, your own key, or a model on your own machine, and every field of a model profile. Start here, because nothing else works until a model is set.

Guiding the story

Asking for another take, changing what you sent, rewinding, and where to put a correction so you stop making it twice.

Writing a scenario

How to build one that plays well: the opening scene first, a world sheet worth its cost, and what to fix after ten turns.

Scenarios

The world, its cast and its opening scenes: world sheet, style directives, lore and places.

Characters

Every field on a cast member and on the persona you play.

Playing a story

Writing turns, asking for another take, and what the second model is doing while you read.

The first needs nothing set up. The other two need no account and send nothing to an Orihai server.

• Orihai AI, our own managed models. Make an account at account.orihai.com, sign in, and write: no key to find, no provider to choose, no card. Free while it is being tested, with a monthly allowance. It is the one arrangement in which an Orihai server processes anything, and the privacy policy says what it sees.
• Your own key. Anthropic, OpenAI, OpenRouter, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint. The application talks to your provider directly, and the bill is the provider's.
• A model on your own machine. Ollama, LM Studio, llama.cpp, anything that answers on the OpenAI-compatible shape. Nothing leaves the computer and there is no key to bring.

You are not choosing once. A model profile is a saved setting, a scenario can name its own, and a story keeps the one it started with, so a story written on a local model and a story written on Orihai AI can sit side by side in the same library.

Everything you write. One SQLite file, in your own user data folder, alongside a folder of any images that were generated.

It is an ordinary database file. You can open it in any SQLite browser, and a backup is a file copy. There is no synchronisation, no telemetry and no crash reporter, so the file is not mirrored anywhere unless you copy it yourself.