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Change Review: review AI edits

Last updated June 3, 2026 · 5 min read

Letting the AI Coach rewrite a whole chapter is great — but how do you check it got things right? That's what Change Review is for: when the AI edits, your draft isn't overwritten directly. It goes into a review mode where you approve passage by passage.

Slima Writing Studio "Review AI Suggestions": Original (left) vs AI Suggestion (right) side-by-side diff (red deletions / green additions), with Keep Original / Accept Suggestion buttons

Why Change Review exists

"Have the Coach rewrite this chapter" is one of Slima's most powerful operations — and also the riskiest. The AI might:

  • Edit out a line you deliberately kept
  • Smooth the prose but break a setup
  • Over-polish until your voice is gone

If the AI wrote straight into your file, you'd have to catch all of this after the fact. Change Review flips it: you see what the AI changed before anything lands in your draft, then approve / reject piece by piece.

Two ways the AI responds: suggest vs edit

How the Coach responds depends on what you ask it to do — it's not a setting you toggle first:

Situation What happens When
Just suggests The AI replies with opinions in chat, leaves your draft alone Asking for opinions, having it look at a passage, discussing direction
Actually edits → Change Review The AI uses an edit tool on the file, but doesn't overwrite directly — it enters Review for passage-by-passage approval When you ask it to make the change (e.g. "Smooth out this chapter")

In other words: whenever the AI actually edits a file, it always goes through Change Review — it never silently overwrites your draft.

Entering Change Review

When you ask the AI to do something that modifies the draft (e.g. "Smooth out this chapter"), Slima will:

  1. Auto-create a version called "Auto backup before AI operation" (always restorable)
  2. Let the AI complete its rewrite
  3. Switch the editor into Change Review mode

The Change Review UI

Change Review is a modal titled "Review AI Suggestions". It steps through the AI's changes one at a time — use "Previous" / "Next" at the bottom to move back and forth, and the ✗ in the top corner to close it.

Each change is shown as a per-passage diff:

  • Green background = passages added or rewritten by the AI
  • Red background + strikethrough = passages removed by the AI

The center of the modal has two buttons: "Keep Original" and "Accept Suggestion"; when there's more than one change, an "Accept All" link sits below them.

Reviewing passage by passage

For each change:

  • Accept Suggestion → keep the AI's version of this passage
  • Keep Original → keep what you had for this passage

There's no per-change "edit" option — to hand-tweak something, choose Keep Original or Accept Suggestion, close the modal, then edit the file normally afterward. Once you've decided each change (or hit "Accept All"), close the modal and you're done; passages you kept original won't take the AI's version.

Accept all

If the AI's overall direction looks good, "Accept All" saves time by applying every change at once.
If the direction is wrong, choose "Keep Original" on each change — or just close the modal — and the AI's version never lands.

To get all the way back to the state before the AI touched anything, restore the "Auto backup before AI operation" auto-version from the version panel.

Separately, in the chat panel the AI surfaces a "Pending Changes" card after it edits, with "Accept All" / "Reject All" / "Review One by One" quick options.

Multi-file Change Review

If the AI edited several files (e.g. "Switch the whole book from first to third person"), Change Review walks you through them one file at a time — the file tree marks which files still need reviewing.

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