Frequently Asked Questions
What is Rosetta?
Rosetta is a clinical text editor with agents built in. You write notes as usual. Agents do the tedious work, including reformatting and pulling citations. Every change an agent proposes has to be accepted before it modifies your document.
How do I access the platform?
Sign in at philipshih.org/apps/rosetta . Account creation is limited during the beta.
Which AI models can I use?
No AI access is built in — you supply your own provider keys. Add them in Settings → AI Models, and supported AI features use whichever providers you configure. Google (Gemini), OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek, and OpenRouter are supported. 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; 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.
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?
Templates come in three scopes: 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.
How do I use chat tools?
Ask a question in your own words in the chat panel, or select text and right-click to run an agent on just that selection: expand shorthand, reformat, reason, or cite.
What is automatic approval?
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.
Where are my edits?
The edit arrives 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.
What literature sources can agents pull from?
PubMed, through the NCBI E utilities APIs — selected articles are added as RAG sources. Agents can also query OpenFDA and clinical trial registries during a chat turn, and run a live web search through Tavily when a question needs something outside your library.
Are import and export supported?
Yes. Paste or upload raw clinical text to have it segmented into projects and notes — split on your configured delimiter, or let the model find the case boundaries. For export, a folder’s notes can be downloaded as a single text file, and RAG sources can be downloaded individually.