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Writing assist

Bedrock can use a local LM Studio model to help write and refine text — right inside the editor and the prompt board. Nothing is sent to any external service; the model runs entirely on your machine.

Enabling Writing Assist

Assist requires LM Studio to be running with a model loaded. See AI integrations → LM Studio for setup instructions. Once configured, the ✨ Assist button activates in the editor.

In the document editor

On a selection: 1. Select any text in Source or Split mode. 2. A small action bar pops up next to it. 3. Choose an action.

On the whole document: 1. Click ✨ Assist in the editor bar (with nothing selected). 2. Bedrock sends the entire document body.

Actions

Action What it does
Improve Clarifies wording, fixes awkward phrasing, tightens structure
Rephrase Rewrites with different wording while preserving meaning
Shorten Trims to the essential without losing key points
Custom… Enter any instruction of your own

Custom instruction examples

  • "Make it more formal" — professional tone
  • "Turn into a bulleted list" — restructure as bullet points
  • "Add a summary at the top" — prepend a TL;DR
  • "Translate to German" — language translation
  • "Add examples to each point" — expand with concrete examples

Preview, then accept

The result opens in a side-by-side panel — your original on the left, the suggestion on the right:

  • Edit the suggestion directly before accepting.
  • Regenerate to ask the model to try again.
  • Accept to apply the suggestion (replaces the selection or whole document body).
  • Discard to leave the original text unchanged.

Nothing is modified until you click Accept.

On the prompt board

In a prompt card editor, the ✨ Generate menu offers the same actions plus:

Action What it does
Write from title Drafts a full prompt instruction from the card’s title

The result replaces the card’s Instruction field.

Example: a card titled “Refactor authentication module”. Click ✨ Generate → Write from title and Bedrock drafts a detailed instruction from that title — edit it as needed, then run.

Tips

  • For long documents, select just the paragraph you want to improve rather than the whole file — tighter scope gives better results.
  • If Improve doesn’t help, try Rephrase — a rewrite sometimes reveals better structure than incremental improvement.
  • Use Write from title on prompt cards to jumpstart prompt writing; editing a draft is almost always faster than writing from scratch.

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