Atlas is a terminal-native AI coding agent for Blazor work in 2026, covering .razor components, render modes, and the C# and JS interop boundary. You run atlas in a solution with .razor components and a .csproj targeting the Blazor SDK, and Atlas reads your components, @rendermode directives, cascading parameters, and any IJSRuntime interop calls before it proposes a single edit. Every change arrives as a unified diff you approve.
Why Blazor developers use Atlas
Blazor developers use Atlas in 2026 because a .razor file is two languages at once, C# and markup, plus directives that change where the component actually executes. Atlas indexes code by AST declarations using tree-sitter, not blind line windows, so a component parameter and its consumer are retrieved as declarations.
The unit of work in Blazor is the component, but a component's meaning depends on things written outside it: the @rendermode that decides whether it runs on the server or in WebAssembly, the cascading parameter supplied by an ancestor, and the JS module it reaches through IJSRuntime. Text search cannot connect those. Declaration-level indexing can, because a [Parameter] property, a [CascadingParameter] property, and a component class are each real symbols. Ask Atlas which components depend on a cascading AuthenticationState and it answers with the component classes, not with every file containing the word auth.
Working across .razor components day to day
Day to day in 2026, Atlas searches a Blazor solution with hybrid semantic and keyword retrieval fused by reciprocal rank fusion. That combination matters when one question is literal, find every IJSRuntime call, and the next is semantic, find the components that assume server-side state.
A Blazor solution mixes shared projects, a server host, and often a client WebAssembly project, and the same component can be referenced from any of them. Literal retrieval finds the exact strings that matter, such as @rendermode InteractiveServer, IJSRuntime, or InvokeVoidAsync. Semantic retrieval finds the code that behaves a certain way without naming it, such as a component holding a database context in a field and therefore quietly depending on the server render mode. Reciprocal rank fusion merges both lists, so Atlas surfaces both the obvious call sites and the components that will break for reasons no keyword would reveal.
Changing Blazor render modes without breaking state
Ask Atlas to move a component to InteractiveServer or InteractiveWebAssembly and fix the state that no longer serializes, the failure that makes render mode changes painful. Atlas drafts a plan in a read-only plan agent and asks before switching to a build agent, so in 2026 you see the blast radius first.
Switching a component to InteractiveWebAssembly changes what the component is allowed to know. A service that existed only on the server is gone. A parameter holding a type that cannot serialize across the boundary now throws. A cascading parameter supplied by a server-only ancestor is no longer supplied. The read-only plan agent is the right tool for this because the interesting work is analysis: enumerate the parameters, check which types survive serialization, list the injected services that do not exist on the client. Atlas produces that plan, you approve it, and only then does it start editing .razor files.
Testing Blazor components with bUnit and dotnet test
Atlas adds bUnit component tests and runs dotnet test behind a permission prompt in your Blazor solution. Every Atlas tool call is permission-gated against allow, ask, and deny rules before it runs, so in 2026 dotnet test executes only after you allow it, not whenever the agent feels like building.
bUnit tests render a component in isolation and assert on the resulting markup, which means the test has to supply exactly the things the component depends on: its parameters, its cascading values, and a fake for any IJSRuntime call it makes. Atlas writes those tests from the component it actually read, so the JSInterop setup matches the real InvokeVoidAsync calls in the component rather than a placeholder. Running the suite stays a separate, gated decision. You can allow dotnet test permanently while keeping anything that touches a real database or a deployment target behind an ask rule.
Review and safety in a Blazor solution
In 2026, review in a Blazor solution is diff-first with Atlas. Atlas computes a unified diff for every file edit and surfaces it for approval before writing, and Atlas snapshots file changes as git patches so a .razor edit can be diffed and rolled back after dotnet format has run.
Formatting a Blazor solution rewrites whitespace inside markup as well as C#, and a dotnet format pass across several .razor files will bury the three lines that mattered. Atlas separates the steps deliberately: approve the diff that changes behavior, then let Atlas run dotnet format as its own action. Because every edit is snapshotted as a git patch, an interop refactor that went wrong is a rollback rather than a manual repair. Atlas also reads git branches, status, and diffs, and can stage and create commits on your behalf, so the reviewed change lands as a commit.
Keeping a Blazor codebase on your own machine
Atlas can build its code index with local Ollama embeddings, keeping code off third-party servers, which matters in 2026 for the enterprise line-of-business apps that make up much of Blazor's install base. Atlas also lets you switch the active model and provider on the fly with favorites and recents.
Indexing a solution means encoding every declaration in it, which is the moment a codebase is most exposed. Pointing the embedding step at a local Ollama model keeps the .razor components and C# sources on your hardware. Model selection for the agent itself stays a per-task choice made from the terminal: a fast model to add a [Parameter] or scaffold a bUnit test, a stronger one to work out why a component stopped serializing its state after a move to InteractiveWebAssembly. Favorites and recents make that switch immediate.
Getting started
- 01Run atlas in a solution with .razor components and a .csproj targeting the Blazor SDK
- 02Let Atlas read your components, @rendermode directives, cascading parameters, and any IJSRuntime interop calls
- 03Ask Atlas to move a component to InteractiveServer or InteractiveWebAssembly and fix the state that no longer serializes
- 04Let Atlas add bUnit component tests and run dotnet test behind a permission prompt
- 05Approve the diff, then let Atlas run dotnet format
Frequently asked questions
- can an AI coding agent work with Blazor .razor components?
- Yes. Atlas indexes code by AST declarations using tree-sitter, not blind line windows, so a component class, its [Parameter] properties, and its cascading parameters are retrieved as declarations rather than as text matches inside a .razor file.
- how do I set up Atlas on a Blazor project?
- Run atlas in a solution with .razor components and a .csproj targeting the Blazor SDK. Atlas reads your components, @rendermode directives, cascading parameters, and any IJSRuntime interop calls, then works from that picture.
- can Atlas change a Blazor component from InteractiveServer to InteractiveWebAssembly?
- Yes. Ask Atlas to move a component to InteractiveServer or InteractiveWebAssembly and fix the state that no longer serializes. Atlas drafts the plan in a read-only plan agent first and asks before switching to a build agent that edits files.
- does Atlas write bUnit tests for Blazor?
- Yes. Atlas can add bUnit component tests and run dotnet test behind a permission prompt. Because Atlas reads the component first, the JSInterop setup in the test matches the real IJSRuntime calls the component makes.
- how does Atlas handle Blazor JS interop?
- Atlas reads every IJSRuntime interop call in your components and treats the C# and JS boundary as part of the component's contract, which is what lets it fake those calls correctly in a bUnit test and flag them during a render mode change.
- can Atlas run dotnet format on my Blazor solution?
- Yes. After you approve the diff, Atlas can run dotnet format as a separate step, so a formatting pass across .razor files never hides the lines that actually changed behavior.
- is Atlas safe to run on a private enterprise Blazor codebase?
- Atlas can build its code index with local Ollama embeddings, keeping code off third-party servers, and every tool call is permission-gated against allow, ask, and deny rules before it runs.
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