Documents

Ask for an article and you don't get a wall of chat text. You get a document — a card in the conversation that opens into a real editor, with headings, tables, images, an outline, and inline [1] [2] citations that point at sources the agent actually read.

Nine of your ten agents can write one. Lucy is the specialist, but Ashley, Maya, Alex, Riley, Tyron, Sam, Blake and Ema all have the same document tools — because the person who needs a document is usually the person already in the middle of a conversation about it.

What you can do

• Get a real document, not chat text. The agent writes the whole thing into the document card. It is explicitly forbidden from pasting a document into the conversation.
• Have it researched first. For factual topics the agent searches the web, reads the top sources, and then writes — with [n] markers that match a real reference list.
• Edit one section without touching the rest. "Develop the second part", "shorten the intro", "cut that paragraph" — your tables, formatting and citation numbers survive untouched.
• Watch chat edits land live in the editor you already have open — unless you're typing in it, in which case your keystrokes always win.
• Rewrite a passage by selecting it and telling the agent what you want instead.
• Add images four ways — your library, a real web photo, a generated illustration, or your own URL.
• Navigate long documents with an outline minimap pinned to the panel edge.
• Export as Markdown, PDF or Word, save to Google Drive as a real Google Doc, or publish a public read-only link.

Five kinds of document

The agent picks the shape from what you asked for. You can always name it explicitly.

Write your first document

1. Open a conversation with Lucy (or any agent except Steve).
2. Ask for what you want, in a sentence. Say the topic, and say the language if it isn't your default.
3. Watch the steps: for a researched topic you'll see a research step, then a writing step.
4. A document card appears in the chat. The agent says one short sentence about it — it won't repeat the text back at you.
5. Click the card. The editor opens in the side panel.
6. Edit anything directly. Your changes save themselves as you type.

Research and real citations

This is the part most AI writing gets wrong. Ask for a factual document and the agent is required to search the web, read the top sources, and write from them — not to write from memory and bolt references on afterwards.

What you get back:

• Inline [n] markers in the prose, exactly where the claim is.
• A References section generated automatically at the end — you never have to ask for it.
• Numbering that survives. Edit the document, reload the page, export it — the citations are still there, still numbered the same, still linked.
• References in the document's language. The heading and wording are localised in 10 languages (English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Turkish, Arabic, Japanese, Chinese) — keyed to the language of the document, not your interface.

Section-level editing

You almost never want a document rewritten. You want one part changed. So ask for one part:

The agent targets that section by its heading and applies one of six operations: rewrite, expand, shorten, replace, insert after, or delete. The rewrite instruction is hardened to preserve your paragraph breaks, your Markdown lists and tables, and every [n] citation marker exactly as-is — never added, never dropped, never renumbered.

You can target a section by name loosely — accents and capitalisation don't matter, and a partial match works. If the agent can't find it, it tells you every heading it can see, so your next instruction lands.

Live edits never clobber your typing

If you have the editor open while you ask the agent for a change, the panel refreshes on its own and the change appears in front of you — no reload, no re-opening the card.

With one deliberate exception: if your cursor is inside the document, the refresh is skipped. An agent edit will never overwrite a sentence you're in the middle of writing. Click out, and it lands.

Reading a long document

• The outline minimap pins itself to the right edge of the panel once a document has two or more headings. Hover it for section titles, click to scroll. It tracks where you are as you read.
• Centered reading mode — hit the fullscreen toggle in the panel header and the document drops into a 760px reading column, centered, with the chat out of the way. Toggle back to keep it in the side panel next to the conversation.

Images, four ways

Ask for an image and say where it should come from:

The re-hosting on web search matters more than it sounds. A hotlinked image breaks the moment the source site changes — and it renders blank in PDF exports. Copying the bytes means the picture in your document stays in your document.

Getting the document out

Five destinations, all from the panel header:

• Markdown — the real markdown source, plus the localised references appendix.
• PDF — A4, images included.
• Word (.docx) — real headings, tables, links and images. Not a PDF in a .docx coat.
• Google Drive — saved as an actual Google Doc you can keep editing there.
• A public link — opt-in, revocable, read-only.

There's also a one-click Copy that puts the document on your clipboard as rich text, formatting intact, ready to paste into anything.

Full detail: Exporting documents and Google Drive.

Sharing a document publicly

Turn on sharing from the share button in the panel and you get a link at unyo.app/share/file/… that anyone can open — no account, no login. Citations, tables, images and the outline all render.

The boundary is the point:

• Nothing is public unless you make it public. Sharing is off by default on every document.
• The link serves content only. A shared document exposes its text — never your account, never the conversation it came from, never any metadata.
• Revoke it and it's gone. A revoked or non-existent link returns nothing at all — nobody can probe for other people's documents by guessing.
• The page refreshes every few seconds, so a shared document is near-live rather than instant.

Tips

• Name the language. The document's language drives the references section and the writing. If you want a French article from an English conversation, say so.
• Ask for shape, not just topic. "Use a comparison table", "make section 3 a numbered checklist" — the agents will vary the form when you ask.
• Don't paste your source material into chat. Attach the file — PDF, Word, Excel, CSV — and any agent reads it directly.
• Your Neural Core is the brand voice. What you tell one agent about how you write, every agent knows. See the Neural Core.
• Ask the agent what it has. Agents can list your recent documents, which is how "turn last week's article into a newsletter" works without you finding the link.

What documents cost

Writing, editing, listing and exporting documents carry no tool credits. As with everything in Unyo, you're billed for the real cost of the model's work on that run — not a flat fee per document. See Credits and billing.

Troubleshooting

The document card never appeared. Occasionally a long, complex writing run finishes without persisting the document — most often on heavy multi-source comparison pieces. Ask the agent to write it again; if it keeps happening, narrow the brief (fewer sources, one topic) and it'll land.

"This document has no markdown body (legacy format)." You're trying to section-edit an older document created before markdown became the source of truth. Ask the agent to recreate it as a new draft — the new one edits section by section normally.

The agent wrote a second document instead of editing the first. Tell it explicitly: "edit the existing document, don't create a new one."

Google Drive save failed or sent me to the integrations page. Your Drive grant has expired or was never connected. Reconnect from Integrations in the sidebar and try again.

The agent can't find a file in my Drive. It can't browse your Drive — by design. See the FAQ.