Work Narrative is an upcoming Atlas capability that will assemble a plain-language log of what you did on a project. It will read the record Atlas already has: your sessions, your commits, the commitments and decisions extracted from calls, and your tracked time, and turn it into prose you can read or paste into a status update. The aim is that answering what did you get done this week takes seconds, not an evening.
The record already exists; it is just scattered
What you did this week is real, but it is spread across sessions, commits, call notes, and tracked time.
Work Narrative will gather those sources for a project and a time window and render them into a single plain-language summary. Nothing new to log; it reads what is already there and writes the narrative for you.
Status updates that write themselves
A weekly client update is mostly a restatement of work that already happened.
Because the narrative is built from the actual record, it can seed a status update grounded in what shipped, what was decided, and what was promised. A later step will shape that into a client-ready note in the right voice.
Per project, on demand
A work log is most useful scoped to one project and one window.
The capability is designed to produce a narrative for a chosen project and time range on demand, and to keep each one as a readable, rebuildable document. It will be opt-in per workspace.
Frequently asked questions
- Is the Atlas work log available now?
- Not yet. It is a planned Atlas capability described on this page.
- What does it read to build the log?
- Your sessions, your git commits, the commitments and decisions extracted from calls, and your tracked time when available.
- Will I have to write anything?
- No. The log is derived from the record Atlas already has and is rebuildable, so there is nothing to maintain by hand.
- Can it help with client status updates?
- Yes. The plain-language record is meant to seed a status update, with a later step that shapes it into a client-ready note.
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