Introduction

The pages#

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

Model profiles, and the three ways to fill one in. Start here — nothing else works until a model is set.

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.

Three ways to run it#

Two of the three require no account and send nothing to an Orihai server.

• 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.
• Managed AI. Optional, free while it is being tested, and the only arrangement in which an Orihai server processes anything. It needs an account at account.orihai.com, and the privacy policy says what it sees.

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 managed AI can sit side by side in the same library.

What is on your disk#

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.