Smart Edit (AI editing)

Smart Edit lets you change an artifact by describing what you want instead of doing it by hand. Tell the AI the change in plain language and it regenerates the artifact for you. It is the fastest way to iterate when you know the result you want but not the exact steps to get there.

Open Smart Edit

Smart Edit lives inside the editor for any artifact you've generated.

• Open an artifact from Artifacts (or generate one from chat).
• In the editor toolbar, select the lightbulb icon to enter Smart Edit mode.
• Describe the change you want, then run it. The AI regenerates the artifact and saves the result as a new Snapshot so you can compare versions and roll back.

Each Smart Edit costs credits. You'll see the cost before you run, and you can top up anytime with Add Credits.

How Smart Edit works per artifact type

Smart Edit behaves a little differently depending on what you're editing.

Images, Audio, and Video use an operation picker. Instead of one open-ended prompt, you choose from categories of operations and then describe the specifics. The picker keeps each edit focused and gives you the right controls for the medium, like targeting a part of an image, a section of a track, or a clip on a video timeline.

3D and Apps produce a new AI snapshot. You describe the change in plain language and the AI regenerates the whole artifact as a fresh Snapshot — for example, ask a 3D model to be restyled or an App to behave differently.

Documents have their own set of AI tools. Beyond rewriting the whole document from a prompt, you get one-tap edits for selected text, AI reviews that leave your document untouched, web research that writes a cited document for you, and layout cleanup. Each is covered in its own section below.

Painting a region (Images)

Some image operations work on a specific area rather than the whole picture. When an operation needs a target, you'll be asked to paint the region first.

• Select the operation that needs a region.
• Paint over the part of the image you want the AI to change.
• Describe the change and run it.

This tells the AI exactly where to work, so the rest of your image stays untouched.

Tip: Describe what should appear in the region — for example, "a wooden bench" or "a red bow tie" — rather than phrasing it as an instruction. The painted area already tells the AI where to work, so a short description of the thing you want gives the cleanest result.

Chain edits together (Images)

When you talk through an image change with the AI, it can suggest a sequence of edits that run one after another — for example, sharpen the photo and then restyle it. Each step builds on the result of the step before it, so you can get to a layered result without running and re-opening the edit yourself.

• The AI lays out the steps in order, numbered, with a short description of what each one does.
• Review the sequence, then select Generate once to run the whole chain.
• The edit works through the steps in order and shows you which step it's on (for example, "Step 2 of 3").
• Every step is saved as its own Snapshot, so you can compare the stages and roll back to any point in the chain.

If a step can't be completed, the chain stops there and any steps that already finished are kept as Snapshots — so you never lose the work that succeeded. Chained edits are available for images.

Editing video (Video)

Video uses Smart Edit's operation picker, with three operations for working with the clips on your video's timeline. Pick the one that matches what you want, describe it in plain language, and the AI generates the result.

• Add clip generates a brand-new clip from your description and drops it onto the timeline. You can optionally add a reference image for the clip's first frame so the result resembles a look you already have; without one, the clip is generated from your words alone.
• Extend clip continues an existing clip seamlessly from its last frame, so the new footage picks up where the original left off. Choose which clip to continue with the Clip control, and the continuation is added right after it on the timeline.
• Edit clip regenerates or restyles an existing clip in place — it swaps the footage while keeping the clip's spot on the timeline. Choose which clip to change with the Clip control.

Two controls shape every video edit: a Model control, where you pick which model generates the clip, and a Length control, where you set how many seconds the new clip runs. The lengths you can choose from depend on the model you pick. Like any Smart Edit, the result is saved as a new Snapshot so you can compare versions and roll back.

Preview the look first (Video, optional)

You don't have to preview. Describe your clip and select Generate to produce it directly: Add clip builds from your words alone, while Extend clip and Edit clip continue from the clip you chose. Because a video costs more than an image, every video operation also offers an optional cheap preview so you can lock the look before committing to a full clip.

1. Preview look — generate a quick, inexpensive preview image of the clip's first frame from your prompt. You'll see its cost before it runs. If it's not right, adjust your prompt and select Regenerate preview to try again — as many times as you like.
2. Use this preview — when the preview image looks right, confirm it. That image becomes the first frame the clip is built from.
3. Generate — produce the full video clip. You'll see its cost before you run, and the finished clip is saved as a new Snapshot.

The preview is there when you want to dial in the first frame cheaply before paying for the full clip — and you can always skip it and generate straight from your description.

Quick text edits (Documents)

Documents give you one-tap AI edits for the text you're working on, so you don't have to write out a full instruction every time.

Select an element in your document — a heading, a paragraph, a text box — and a small lightbulb button appears beside it. Choose it to open a short menu of quick edits:

• Improve rewrites the text to be clearer and stronger.
• Shorten makes it more concise.
• Elaborate expands it with more detail.
• Fix grammar corrects spelling and grammar.
• Change tone rewrites it in a tone you describe, like formal, friendly, or persuasive.

Most run with a single tap. Change tone asks you for the tone first. Each one edits only the element you selected and saves the result as a new Snapshot.

When you're editing a single element, a Context option controls how much the AI looks at:

• Just this element edits only the text you selected — the most focused and cheapest option.
• With surrounding also shows the AI the other elements on the same page as read-only reference, so the edit stays consistent with the text around it.

Every quick edit uses credits, and you'll see the cost before you run.

Review a document with AI (Documents)

Documents have two AI review options that give you feedback without changing your document. They never alter your text or create a new Snapshot — they just tell you what could be better, and you decide what to do.

AI critique adds inline comments to the parts of your document that could be improved. Run it, and highlighted spots appear in your document. Tap a highlight to read the comment — what to improve and why. From the comment you can:

• Acknowledge to dismiss that comment once you've read it.
• Ask AI to address to hand the comment to the AI conversationally — it opens Discuss focused on that element, proposes an edit that resolves the comment, and you accept it (or refine it first) before it's applied. The comment clears once the edit is saved. Use this when you want to talk through the fix rather than apply a canned one.
• Apply fix when the AI offers a concrete change — this makes the suggested edit for you right away and saves it as a new Snapshot.

Use Dismiss all to clear every comment at once. The comments are part of your review session only: they disappear when you close the document or make an edit, and they never show up in exports or previews.

Assess gives you an overall review in a side panel: a short summary, scores for things like clarity and structure, and lists of strengths, weaknesses, and the most useful improvements to make. It's the quickest way to gauge where a draft stands before you dig into specific changes.

Both options use credits, like any Smart Edit, and you'll see the cost before you run.

Compare reviews from multiple AI models (Documents)

Multi-model review reviews your document with several different AI models at once and lays their feedback out side by side, so you can compare perspectives instead of relying on a single opinion. Like the other reviews, it never changes your document.

Run it from Smart Edit. After a short wait, each model gets its own column in a comparison grid, and every column shows that model's take:

• a short overall summary,
• scores for things like clarity and structure,
• lists of strengths, weaknesses, and suggested improvements,
• and a count of the inline issues it found, which you can expand to read each one.

When a model offers a concrete fix for an issue, Apply fix makes that change for you and saves it as a new Snapshot. Because different models often notice different things, the grid is a fast way to spot the feedback they agree on — and the gaps only one of them caught.

Because it runs several models at once, Multi-model review uses more credits than a single-model review. You can see what each run cost in the document's cost history.

Research and write a document (Documents)

Research & write turns a topic into a finished, cited document. Instead of starting from a blank page, you give the AI a subject and it researches the web, then writes a structured document for you — with inline citations linking back to the sources it used.

1. Open Smart Edit on a document and choose Research & write.
2. Type what you want researched and written — for example, "the economic impact of remote work since 2020."
3. Run it. Researching and writing takes longer than a normal edit, so you'll see progress while it works.

When it's done, your document is filled in as a new Snapshot: a multi-section piece on your topic, with numbered citation markers in the text that point to the real sources behind each claim. It's the fastest way to go from an idea to a sourced first draft you can then refine by hand or with the other Smart Edit tools.

Because it researches the web and writes a full document, Research & write is the most involved Smart Edit and uses more credits than a typical edit. You'll see the cost before you run.

Tidy up the layout (Documents)

Documents have a set of Layout tools under Smart Edit for changing how your content is arranged — from a light cleanup to a full redesign. Each saves the result as a new Snapshot, so you can compare it with the original and roll back, and each uses credits with the cost shown before you run.

• Auto-layout cleans up how the elements are arranged without moving any content. If your headings, paragraphs, images, and text boxes have drifted out of alignment or started to overlap, Auto-layout realigns them, evens out the spacing, keeps everything inside the page margins, and clears overlaps.
• Apply template reflows your existing content into a named layout. Pick a template — such as a formal report, a two-column article, a cover page with sections, a résumé, or a formal letter — and the AI re-arranges and re-styles what's already there to fit that structure. It doesn't write new content; it gives your existing content a polished, consistent layout.
• Make presentation turns your document into a slide-style deck — one section per slide, each with a short title and concise bullet points, plus a title slide up front. It's the fastest way to go from a written document to a presentation-style layout.
• Rearrange lets the AI propose a better reading order for your sections and elements — leading with the most important content and grouping related pieces together — while keeping all your content and styling exactly as it is. Unlike Auto-layout (which only fixes alignment and spacing), Rearrange changes the sequence.

Open Smart Edit, choose the Layout tool you want, and run it.

Mark spots for AI to fill later (Documents)

When you're drafting a document and want to come back to a spot later, you can mark it as an AI placeholder instead of writing it now. Select the words you want to replace in a text element, open the floating lightbulb menu beside the selection, and choose Mark for Followup. A small box asks what the AI should write there — for example "expand into a paragraph" or "add a one-line summary." The marked text gets a dashed violet highlight so you can find it again.

Placeholders stay with your document when you save and reopen it, and they never appear in exports or previews — they're just notes to yourself and the AI.

When you're ready, open Smart Edit and you'll see an AI placeholders list with everything you've marked. Choose Resolve to have the AI fill them all in at once, matching your document's tone — it saves the result as a new Snapshot. To drop a placeholder you no longer want, use the ✕ next to it in the list; that leaves the original text untouched.

Resolving placeholders uses credits like any Smart Edit, and you'll see the cost before you run.

Choose the AI model (where available)

For many edits you can pick which AI model runs them, instead of always using the default. When an edit supports it, a Model control appears with the available models for that operation.

• Each model is labeled with a short quality/speed hint, and one is marked as the recommended choice — the best fit for that edit. If you don't pick, the recommended model is used.
• Different models can produce different results, take different amounts of time, and cost different amounts. The cost shown before you run reflects the model you've chosen, so you can weigh quality against price.
• Model selection is available across image, document, and App (code) edits, with audio and video offering their own model and voice choices in their pickers. Where an edit has only one suitable model, no Model control appears — there's nothing to choose.

Picking a model is optional. The recommended default is there so you can just describe the change and run it; the control is for when you want to steer quality, speed, or cost yourself.

"Soon" operations

Some operations appear with a Soon label. These are planned for that artifact type but not yet available to run. You can see them in the picker so you know what's coming, but you can't select them until they're live. Everything without a Soon label is ready to use now.

Smart Edit vs Direct Edit

MotherFluxer gives you two ways to change an artifact, and you can switch between them anytime.

• Smart Edit (lightbulb): describe a change in plain language and let the AI regenerate the artifact. Best for big or open-ended changes, or when you're not sure how to make the change yourself. Uses credits.
• Direct Edit: hands-on, no AI. You make precise changes yourself with the editor's tools. Best when you know exactly what you want to adjust and want full control.

Use Smart Edit to explore and make broad changes fast, then switch to Direct Edit for fine-tuning. Every result is saved as a Snapshot, so you can move between versions freely.