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Atlas is the Manager agent at the center of every team. You give Atlas goals; it plans phases, creates tasks, dispatches specialists, keeps the board clean, and escalates decisions to you. Atlas coordinates rather than implements: it inspects the project read-only and delegates the actual work.

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Talking to Atlas

Open the team’s Chat tab. Give Atlas the goal plus constraints, and say what done looks like:
“Ship a pricing page this week. Use the existing design system. Frontend builds it, QA verifies it on mobile, and check with me before changing the nav.”

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Quick Briefs

Ready-made prompts available in Atlas chat for common asks:

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Slash commands

Atlas carries the Manager skill set. The most useful in chat:
  • /think: pressure-test an idea before building starts
  • /delegate: break a goal into tasks and assign specialists
  • /status: pull progress, blockers, completion state
  • /pipeline: run strategy, design, and engineering reviews
  • /launch: run the shipping workflow (tests, review, changelog, PR)
  • /safeguard: tighten safety controls before risky operations
  • /scope: keep agent work constrained to intended files
  • /reflect: run a retrospective
  • /learn: save important context and decisions to team memory

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Assigning work yourself

You do not have to route everything through conversation. Open the slash menu and choose Assign task: pick the agent, describe the work, and choose how it starts: Notify (sends the work without starting immediately), Start (begins immediately), or Flag (waits for your decision).

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Where your attention goes

Atlas routes everything into three panels (full detail in Tasks):
  • User Tasks: decisions, approvals, and questions waiting on you. You act on these.
  • Agent Tasks: the work board. You watch; you rarely need to act.
  • Task Health: Atlas’s cleanup queue. Glance at it if clutter piles up, then Nudge Manager or Sweep stale tasks.
In-chat interruption cards appear when Atlas wants to message an agent or open new work and your approval is required: Allow & Send / Reject for messages, Allow New Work / Reject for new workstreams.

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Interruption Level

Team Settings includes an Interruption Level that controls how often Atlas stops and asks you: Start with Balanced. Drop to Minimal once you trust the team on a project; raise to Hands-on or Manual for risky or unfamiliar work.

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Updates from the team

The Show updates from agents checkbox in Atlas chat controls whether short “Update from [agent]” digests appear inline as teammates report progress. The setting is remembered per team.

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Use Atlas well

  • Give the goal and the constraints, not a step list. Atlas plans better than it follows micro-instructions.
  • Use Quick Briefs instead of scrolling history when you return to a team.
  • When the chat gets noisy, ask Atlas to restate the current plan in one message.
  • If Atlas seems stuck or stale, the Guide to Atlas button (question mark in the chat header) summarizes all of these mechanics in-app.