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CharacterVault 1.7.0 ​

This release makes the editor AI toolbar customizable (reorder, hide, and create your own buttons), adds roleplay highlight colors for dialogue, narration, and actions, and ships a batch of editor quality-of-life fixes.

Try it: https://vault.charactervault.app
Staging: https://staging.charactervault.app
Docs: https://vault.charactervault.app/docs/

Highlights ​

Customizable AI toolbar ​

The fixed toolbar at the top of every editor is now yours to arrange. Open Settings in the workspace header, then the Prompts tab — the Toolbar Buttons card at the top controls which buttons appear and in what order. Remember to Save Settings when done.

  • Reorder — use the ↑ ↓ arrows on a button to move it left or right.
  • Remove — use the trash can to take a built-in button off the toolbar. Removed built-ins wait under Add buttons and can be put back at any time.
  • Bulk remove — click Select, tick several buttons (or click their labels), then Remove / Delete once. One confirmation covers the whole batch.
  • Reset — Reset toolbar to defaults restores the original set and order. Asks for confirmation first.
  • Custom can't be removed — the 💬 Custom button is always kept (it shows a lock instead of a trash can), though you can move it.

Removing a button asks for confirmation: deleting a custom button is permanent, while removing a built-in just hides it.

Buttons run left to right in your order; when space runs out, extras collapse into ▼ More automatically. Labels longer than 12 characters are shortened (hover a button for its full name).

Text Editor → AI toolbar · AI Setup → Prompts

Custom buttons ​

Under Add buttons you can also create your own buttons via New custom button:

  1. Pick a label (up to 40 characters), an icon, and a color.
  2. Write the prompt template — it must contain ${text}, which is replaced with your selection when the button runs.
  3. Click Add. The button lands at the end of the toolbar and its editor opens automatically.

Each custom button can use its own AI endpoint and model: expand its editor (Edit or click its label) and set Model for this prompt, the same picker the built-in prompts use. Edit the label, icon, color, or template any time the same way; delete it with the trash can (with confirmation).

Custom buttons behave like the polish operations: they need a text selection, and their results preview as ghost text with Accept / Reject exactly like the built-ins.

Text Editor → Custom buttons

Roleplay highlight colors ​

Prose editors now color-code roleplay text so dialogue, narration, and actions are easy to tell apart. Coloring is on by default in every prose editor.

  • Dialogue — text in "double quotes" (straight or curly). Defaults to amber.
  • Narration — plain prose outside quotes and asterisks. Follows the editor text color unless you pick one.
  • Actions — text in single *asterisks*. Defaults to gray. **bold** markers are never treated as actions, and unclosed quotes stay narration.

Change the colors under Settings → Character Workspace → Roleplay colors: each row has a color picker and a hex field, plus a live preview and a reset to defaults. and always keep their macro colors, even inside quotes.

/ follow the theme by default. To override one, open Settings → Character Workspace → Name macro colors, pick a color with the picker or type a hex value. Clear the field (back to auto) to return to automatic.

Text Editor → Roleplay colors

Editor quality-of-life ​

  • Current line highlights only when nothing is selected, so selections read cleanly.
  • Search (Ctrl+F) opens with the current selection prefilled; Ctrl+H jumps straight to Replace.
  • Font size (aA) — the slider works with arrow keys, plus a Reset button and Ctrl+= / Ctrl+- / Ctrl+0 shortcuts.
  • Macro expansion — typing Char or USER plus punctuation expands to / (case-insensitive).
  • Creator Notes split preview keeps undo history and focus when toggling preview.
  • Empty editors show a placeholder hint; touch devices no longer pop the keyboard on section switch.

Text Editor

Also in this release ​

  • The AI payload preview button joins the utilities group while staying reachable in Custom mode; previews rebuild debounced under a content-hashed session key.
  • Toolbar layout and highlight colors persist in settings, and are included in settings backup and full vault backup restore.
  • Toolbar settings edits apply as functional draft updates, so rapid reorder/remove clicks can't overwrite each other.

Fixes ​

  • Editor search focus is tracked per-editor with guarded timeouts, so switching sections can't steal focus.
  • The payload preview copy timer is cleaned up on close instead of lingering.
  • Settings backup download revokes its object URL after saving instead of leaking it.

Upgrade ​

Client-only app. Open the hosted site or rebuild locally; no server migration.

bash
git clone https://github.com/spaceman2408/CharacterVault
cd CharacterVault
npm install
npm run dev

Local data from 1.6.0 keeps working. Toolbar layout, highlight colors, and per-button models save on the existing settings record. Hard refresh if the UI looks stale after deploy.

Docs ​

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