Meet Manan

Manan is the assistant that sits in the Screel editor. It is scoped to exactly one project — the one you have open — and it can read and change everything in it: the script and reference documents, the scenes, generated media, and renders. It cannot open, list, or create other projects.

Opening Manan

Desktop: the Manan button at the left of the editor top bar toggles the chat panel on the right. Drag its edge to resize it.
Phone and tablet: the vertical Manan tab on the left edge opens a full-height drawer.
From a scene: Ask Manan about this scene on a scene card starts a message with that scene already attached.
From a prompt field: Improve with AI on an image, animation, or music prompt hands that prompt to Manan with preset directions to pick from.
From the script: select a passage and choose Ask about this to quote it into the composer.

The panel header holds the conversation picker, New chat, and a close button. Each project keeps its own conversations; the first reply names a conversation automatically and you can rename or delete it from the picker.

What to ask for

The empty state suggests three starting points, and they cover most work:

Write a script about a rainy Tokyo street at night — Manan writes the script document and nothing else.
Create scenes from my script — reads the script, creates scenes, links each script block to its scene. Free.
Generate images for every scene — one batch of image jobs, shown as live cards.

“Make the screel” (or any phrasing that asks to finish the video) renders the project exactly as it stands. Scenes without a clip render as stills, so a stills-only video is always a valid, cheaper result.

Manan does what you asked and nothing more. When it notices something else worth doing, it says so and lets you decide — an unasked rewrite or regeneration would spend credits and overwrite your work.

How a turn works

You send a message. Manan reads the project and any documents you mentioned.
It calls tools — reading scenes, editing documents, dispatching generation jobs.
Anything that spends credits shows an approval card first (unless you are in Auto mode, or pre-approved the tool for this chat). A card ends the turn until you answer. See Modes and approvals.
Long jobs run in the background. When every job from a reply finishes, an automatic [jobs update] message reports the outcome and Manan reacts to it.

Every turn spends a small number of credits on model usage — see Usage and limits.

In this section

Modes and approvals — Plan, Default, Auto, and the approval cards.
Working with Manan — mentions, skills, attachments, questions, task lists, job cards.
Changes and safety — Revert this turn, attribution, Continue and Retry.
Memory and instructions — what Manan remembers and how you steer it.
Usage and limits — cost per turn, the rolling window, size caps.
Tools — every tool Manan can use.