Frequently Asked Questions
What Is Rosetta?
Rosetta is a clinical text editor with built-in agents. You write notes as usual. Agents do the tedious work: expanding abbreviations, pulling references, formatting citations, and drafting reasoning. Every change an agent proposes has to be accepted before it modifies your document.
How Do I Get Access?
Sign in at philipshih.org/apps/rosetta . Account creation is limited during the beta.
Which AI Models Does Rosetta Use?
Rosetta is a bring-your-own-key service. You add provider keys in Settings → AI Models, and Rosetta uses them for supported AI features. Google (Gemini), OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek, and OpenRouter are supported. OpenRouter gives you access to models the other four don’t offer, and a Gemini key covers the default model path and retrieval. Web search uses a separate Tavily key, set under Settings → Tavily web search.
Where Does My Data Live?
Signed out, everything stays in the browser’s local storage, so clearing site data clears your workspace. Signed in, settings, scheduled tasks, and durable workspace records sync to your account, and notes are also cached locally so the app stays responsive.
Prompts, retrieved source passages, and the note content involved in a request are sent to whichever model provider handles that request.
What Can I Upload Into RAG?
The RAG panel accepts PDFs, plain text, Markdown, JSON, CSV, TSV, HTML, RTF, and common image formats. You can also search PubMed in the app.
What Is The Difference Between Plan And Act?
Plan reasons through a request first. Act returns an answer, draft, or edit right away.
How Do Templates Work?
Rosetta supports shared templates, workspace defaults, and local overrides for one note. A note with a template applied is locked to that structure: section anchors constrain AI edits, and locked anchors can’t be modified by agents at all.
How Do I Use Chat Tools?
Ask a free-form question in the chat panel, or select text and right-click to run an agent on just that selection: expand shorthand, reformat, reason, or cite. In both cases the result comes back as a pending suggestion you accept or reject.
What Is Auto-Approve?
By default, agent actions that change your workspace pause for your approval. Settings has an “Auto-approve agent actions” toggle that skips the confirmation step. Leave it off until you trust how agents behave on your own material.
What Happens When Rosetta Suggests An Edit?
Rosetta stores the edit as a suggestion first. You review it in the editor and accept or reject it. Only accepted suggestions enter revision history.
What Appears In Revisions?
The Revisions tab shows accepted AI changes. Each entry records the original text, the accepted text, the reason, and the time accepted.
Why Did A Revision Skip Part Of My Request?
On notes with a locked template, suggested changes that conflict with locked section anchors are dropped. Unlock the template or rephrase the request so it applies to an editable section.
Can Rosetta Search PubMed?
Yes. The RAG panel can query PubMed through the NCBI E utilities APIs and add selected articles as sources.
Does Rosetta Support General Document Import And Export?
Yes. Paste or upload raw clinical text and Rosetta segments it into projects and notes, splitting cases on your configured delimiter or letting the model segment them. For export, a folder’s notes can be downloaded as a single text file, and RAG sources can be downloaded individually.
Questions about the current docs can be sent to philip@philipshih.org.