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Quick Start

Go from zero to your first pages in five minutes: install WorkGoa, connect your model, and open a new book.

Updated 2026-09-19

WorkGoa is a desktop AI writing agent built for long-form and serialized fiction authors. It doesn't one-click your manuscript for you; it holds your worldbuilding, characters, and foreshadowing steady so you can finish the long, easy-to-derail road of a serial.

What you get

  • A writing partner that remembers your settings: a million words in, characters hold and foreshadowing stays connected.
  • A verifiable quality base: consistency, pacing, and prose style each have hard gates, not model goodwill.
  • Fully local, bring-your-own model: your drafts stay with you and you connect the model yourself.

Start in three steps

  1. Install and open: download the package for your platform and follow the first-launch prompts — see Install on macOS.
  2. Connect a model: enter your own API Key once in Settings; from then on requests go straight from your machine to the provider you choose — see Connect a Model Provider.
  3. Open a new book: create a manuscript workspace, add a title and one-line premise, and WorkGoa generates a writing-plan scaffold — see Create and Manage a Manuscript Workspace.

The writing rhythm

After you create a book, daily work loops through draft → review → finalize: the agent drafts from the ledgers, you revise, and consistency checks flag anything below bar. Once you're comfortable with the Interface Tour, dig into the Consistency Engine & Foreshadowing.

Next steps