Use cases · 4 min read
Make interactive stories from Claude or ChatGPT
Develop a story in Claude or ChatGPT, save it as a private Pominis phone-story draft, review your projects from the chat, and finish in VN Studio.
Many stories start as a conversation with an AI assistant: a premise, a few what-ifs, a draft of the first exchange. Pominis can connect to Claude and ChatGPT so that conversation does not have to end in copy and paste. The assistant can read your Pominis projects, and on accounts where story creation is enabled, save what you worked out together as a private draft you then finish in VN Studio.
This is a walkthrough of what that looks like in practice, using an invented phone story: two cousins texting the night after a funeral about their grandmother's recipe box, which has gone missing. The setup itself is on the Connect page; here we cover what to do once it is connected.
What the connection can and cannot do
Pominis connects through MCP, the protocol these assistants use for outside tools, with you signing in to Pominis and approving what the assistant may do. Reading your projects, writing drafts, and publishing are separate permissions, and you can revoke the connection at any time.
- Read: list your projects, read a story's characters, chapters, scenes, and dialogue, view its images, and show a preview card.
- Check: run the same structural and publish-readiness checks Pominis uses, without changing anything.
- Create: save a small, text-first phone chat story as a private draft. This does not generate images, spend credits, or publish.
- Edit: change a single title, contact name, scene summary, line, or choice label in a draft made this way, or insert a scene.
- Share: get a story's play link, and publish at a visibility you name, if you granted the separate publish permission.
What it does not do is the visual work. The assistant cannot generate scene images, character art, or video, and it can only create phone chat stories, not classic visual novels. Story creation from a chat is also not enabled on every account; if the assistant reports that, you can still use the reading and review tools, and paste the outline into VN Studio instead.
1. Work the story out in the chat first
The assistant is at its best before anything is saved. Use it to settle the parts a phone story depends on: who the contact is, what the player-character wants from the conversation, and where the choices go. For the recipe box: the player texts their cousin Dara, who was the last person in the grandmother's kitchen. The player can ask directly, joke about it, or say nothing about the box at all, and each choice changes what Dara admits.
A draft made through the connection has limits that shape the plan: one contact, three to twelve scenes, up to eight messages per scene, and up to four choices at the end of a scene. Ask the assistant to plan inside those limits before it saves anything.
2. Save it as a private draft
When the outline is right, ask: “Save this as a private Pominis phone story draft.” The assistant sends the title, the contact, the scenes, and the messages, and Pominis stores them as a private project. Nothing is published and no credits are spent. The reply includes a link that opens the draft in VN Studio.
Before leaving the chat, ask for a preview card and a validation. The card shows the opening line and the first choices; the check reports problems such as a choice that points nowhere. Small fixes, such as a line that sounds wrong for Dara or a choice label that gives too much away, can be made from the chat one at a time.
3. Finish it in VN Studio
Open the link. The draft appears like any other phone chat story, with its threads on the Chat scenes board. From here the work is visual and pacing work the assistant cannot do: typing delays and pauses, photos in the thread, a lock screen, and a Phone appearance preset. Ask the VN Studio agent for images or a diary where the story needs them, then use Play draft on a phone.
Publish from VN Studio when it plays well. Public and private publishing are free; unlisted links need a paid plan. Publishing from the chat is possible only with the separate publish permission, and you should always name the visibility you want.
The other direction: review a story you already made
The reading tools work on any of your projects, including ones made entirely in VN Studio, which makes the assistant a useful second reader. Try requests like these:
- “Read chapter one of my recipe box story and list every choice that leads to nearly the same next scene.”
- “Does Dara's voice stay consistent across routes? Quote the lines that feel off.”
- “Validate the story and explain each warning in plain language.”
- “Look at the images for the first three scenes. Is the kitchen the same room in each?”
The assistant reports; you decide. Make the changes in VN Studio, where you can play the result, and restore an earlier version if a change does not work.
