Vocabulary
What each part of Atlas is called
These are the terms Atlas uses for its own parts, defined once so they mean the same thing everywhere. Eight of them are the record engines: the half of Atlas that keeps what was decided, promised, and delivered.
- ShippedAutomated work log
- Shipped is the Atlas engine that reads your commits and sessions and writes a plain-language log of what you actually delivered. How it works
- PromisedCommitment tracking
- Promised is the Atlas engine that checks the commitments you made against what the repository shows you built, and flags the ones with nothing behind them. How it works
- LedgerDecision ledger
- Ledger is the Atlas engine that turns settled decisions into ADR files and injects them back into the agent's context, so a decided argument is not reopened. How it works
- MinutesMeeting intake
- Minutes is the Atlas engine that reads a call transcript and extracts the commitments, decisions, and scope changes it contains. How it works
- BriefClient context profiles
- Brief is the Atlas engine that holds a git-tracked profile of a client's voice and constraints, so the agent adopts them from the first message. How it works
- HouseConvention drift detection
- House is the Atlas engine that checks changed files against your project's own conventions and reports newly introduced drift rather than pre-existing debt. How it works
- UpkeepDocumentation audit
- Upkeep is the Atlas engine that grades documentation against the code it describes, flagging forgotten intent, orphaned pages, and drift. How it works
- MapProject knowledge graph
- Map is the Atlas engine that builds a per-project graph of the entities and relationships in a codebase and feeds the relevant slice into context. How it works
- AxisHybrid code search
- Axis is the Atlas code search engine that fuses semantic and keyword retrieval with reciprocal rank fusion over syntax-aware code chunks. How it works
- AirlockOffline mode
- Airlock is the opt-in Atlas mode that seals the network boundary, so a session sends nothing except to your model endpoint and local services. How it works
- KeptKept-edit rate
- Kept is the share of edits an AI coding agent proposes that survive in the codebase without being reverted, measured per session.
- Convention drift
- Convention drift is the gap that opens when new code stops following a codebase's own established patterns, as distinct from pre-existing technical debt. How it works
- Documentation drift
- Documentation drift is the divergence between what documentation describes and what the code actually does, accumulated through changes that never reached the docs. How it works
- Commitment drift
- Commitment drift is the gap between what a team told a client it would deliver and what the repository shows it actually built. How it works