ATLAS

A terminal AI harness with a built-in project workspace.

Shift the world. Reach beyond yourself.

ATLAS is a chat-first agent CLI in the spirit of Claude Code, Codex, hermes, and aider — but with a real project management workspace baked in, so humans manage AI agents and work alongside each other in one place.

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    ─ ─┴─ ─            shift the world · reach beyond yourself

Install

pipx install blackdoor-atlas    # Python 3.11+
atlas

Or grab a single-file binary from the latest release:

# macOS arm64 example
curl -L -o atlas https://github.com/ryderderder/atlas-cli/releases/latest/download/atlas-macos-arm64
chmod +x atlas
sudo mv atlas /usr/local/bin/

Or via Homebrew (once published):

brew tap ryderderder/atlas-cli
brew install atlas-cli

Use

From any directory:

atlas                  # chat REPL, picks up cwd as project context
atlas init             # check provider readiness
atlas dash             # launch the web dashboard at localhost:41821
atlas workspace ls     # list workspaces
atlas project ls       # list projects in the active workspace
atlas resume           # resume a prior session
atlas config get|set   # tweak persisted settings

State lives in ~/.atlas/:

~/.atlas/
  data.sqlite      # workspaces, projects, issues, cycles
  config.json      # provider keys, defaults, last workspace
  ATLAS.md         # your cross-project work style (auto-loaded)
  memory.md        # agent's durable notes
  user.md          # agent's user-profile notes
  sessions/        # per-session transcripts

Context cascade

When you start a chat ATLAS folds these into the system prompt, in order:

1. The base harness prompt
2. ~/.atlas/ATLAS.md — your cross-project work style
3. ~/.atlas/memory.md and user.md — agent memory
4. Whichever of AGENTS.md / CLAUDE.md / ATLAS.md exists in cwd
5. A symbol-map of cwd (aider-style)

Drop an ATLAS.md next to a project to give the agent project-specific context. The format is whatever you want — it's just markdown.

Providers

Auto-selected in this order; override with ATLAS_PROVIDER:

ATLAS_MODEL=claude-opus-4-7 (or whatever your provider serves) sets the model. atlas init prints what's configured and what's missing.

The dashboard

atlas dash spawns a local FastAPI server with the same /api/* endpoints the agent talks to, plus the React workspace UI bundled in:

• Linear-style board / list / drawer / cycles / insights
• Workspace switcher, multi-workspace membership
• Live SSE chat stream with tool-call inspector
• OpenClaude-style permission gate with Plandex-flavored diff preview

Loopback-only by default. Override host/port with ATLAS_DASH_HOST, ATLAS_DASH_PORT.

Build from source

git clone https://github.com/ryderderder/atlas-cli
cd atlas-cli
make bootstrap        # installs deps + frontend toolchain
make smoke            # quick install + run check
make release          # build wheel + single-file binary

See CHANGELOG.md for what shipped in each release.

License

Apache 2.0.