The ultimate Lorebook and Scripts guide—from first working entry to when code finally matters.

Folks, I have some bad news.

If half of your Lorebook runs on constant: true, maybe you don't have a Lorebook at all.
Maybe you have a second Personality field.
With extra steps.
And no: constant is not bad. Sometimes it is exactly what you need. But if you moved text out of Personality for conditional delivery, and then told the Lorebook to show it always...
You just rearranged the furniture.

PERSONALITY
→ always in front of the model
LOREBOOK ENTRY
→ appears when needed
LOREBOOK ENTRY + CONSTANT
→ always in front of the model again

So this is where I would start, because the Lorebook somehow still looks like arcane magic.
Even though the idea is almost embarrassingly simple:

Lorebook is just regular prompt text with a door in front of it.

Not a second brain.
Not a free SSD for your character.
Just a chunk of context you can tell:

\"Show up for the model when this happens. The rest of the time, stay quiet.\"

And that little difference turns out to be huge later.

START WITH YOUR SITUATION
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Five stages, one journey

STAGE 1
\"Wow. Lorebook sounds complicated.\"
You are here when keys, secondary keys, priorities and probabilities look like a second profession. This stage gives you the only three questions one entry really asks — and your first entry that actually fires.

You open an entry.
Keys. Secondary Keys. Content. Min Messages. Priority. Probability. Groups. Whole Words. Raw. Weight.
It looks like you are about to study a new profession.
You are not.
At first, a single entry has literally three questions:

WHEN?
→ key
WHAT TO GIVE THE MODEL?
→ content
IS IT ENABLED?
→ enabled

If you need an early time floor:

NOT BEFORE WHAT MOMENT?
→ minMessages

You don't have to touch anything else yet.
And here is a real minimal native entry skeleton, not pseudo-JSON:

[
{
\"category\": \"general\",
\"content\": <","first_published_at":"2026-09-02T01:00:28.163216","id":"cff92fa4-116f-4038-a350-9883261b16b6","is_deleted":false,"is_force_remove":false,"is_nsfw":true,"is_proxy_enabled":true,"is_public":true,"name":"Lorebook & Script Bible","public_chat_count":0,"scheduled_publish_at":null,"showdefinition":true,"stats":{"chat":13,"message":22},"tags":[{"created_at":"2023-04-04T09:18:30.194451+00:00","description":"Characters with magical abilities","id":15,"name":"🔮 Magical","slug":"magical"},{"created_at":"2023-04-04T09:22:10.806356+00:00","description":"Character contains more than 1 character","id":26,"name":"👭 Multiple","slug":"multiplepeople"},{"created_at":"2023-05-19T18:21:49.600849+00:00","description":"For RPG bots","id":38,"name":"🎲 RPG","slug":"rpg"}],"total_tokens":1284,"updated_at":"2026-09-02T01:00:27.971206+00:00"}],"message_count":9},"scriptDraftContent":null,"scriptPublishedContent":null,"userHasEdited":false,"sR":{"hash":"6c6c1885-2259-4f5d-82c5-94519cebf907","done":true}},"So":{"characterName":null}}

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