Atris README

atris

atris: you say what you want in plain words. atris builds it, checks it, and shows you proof.

Under the hood it is an operating system for AI work. It turns any repo into a workspace an agent can actually operate: shared context it reads before it acts, a plan -> do -> review loop, durable tasks and daily logs, and verification that ends work on a real check instead of a promise.

Every owner gets persistent computers to run it:

Owner = User | Business
Owner has many Computers
Computer = workspace + files + tools + secrets + memory + agents + validation loop

A computer can be personal or shared by a business. It can run a job like code, research, CRM, reporting, event ops, support, or business ops.

Quick Start

npm install -g atris
cd your-project
atris init && atris

For Coding Agents

Read FOR_AGENTS.md first: why agents adopt Atris, 60-second start, spread-it instructions.

If you're an agent, run:

atris

Then read the workspace's atris/atris.md and follow it exactly. atris.md is the source of truth.

What Atris Gives You

• An AI workspace on top of any repo
• Persistent AI computers for scoped jobs
• A local computer card that makes each workspace inspectable
• A strict plan -> do -> review loop
• Daily logs, task tracking, feature packs, and project memory
• Skills, team members, integrations, and cloud sync when you need them
• A plain answer to "what did my AI actually do?": run atris recap, or atris recap --share for a receipt-backed summary you can paste anywhere

Critical Files

atris/
├── atris.md
├── MAP.md
├── TODO.md
├── logs/
├── features/
├── skills/
├── team/
└── wiki/

Install

npm install -g atris
atris --version

Requires Node.js 18+. atris task uses built-in SQLite and requires Node.js 22+.

If you want Atris cloud workspaces, businesses, or integrations, run atris setup after install.

How To Run Atris

cd your-project
atris init
atris

atris init scaffolds the workspace, including atris/wiki/. atris loads context and hands the workflow off to atris/atris.md.

If you're still shaping the idea, use atris brainstorm. If you want Atris to finish one job and prove it worked, use atris run "<objective>". If you want Atris to keep picking the next mission or member until you say stop, use atris autopilot. If you want project memory checked for stale pages and missing context, use atris loop. atris activate surfaces wiki state from atris/wiki/STATUS.md when it exists.

Core loop: plan -> do -> review

Integrates with any agent.

Publish a static site

Upload any built static site to an Atris-hosted subdomain. See docs/site-publish.md for flags, limits, profiles, and troubleshooting.

atris site publish dist --slug my-site --spa
atris site publish . --slug my-next-app --profile app --build   # Next.js static export

Bring people together with the Host

The Host is a team member that gets to know everyone in a room (a company, a club, your own network) through one fun question at a time, keeps a card for each person, and introduces two people only when both say yes. Then it offers to find a time and checks that it happened. It never reads anyone's messages and keeps no scores.

atris member install host
atris host setup --room personal     # your own network: it asks you, and drafts messages for you to send
atris host import people.jsonl       # bulk add people and who already knows whom
atris host room                      # the host's weekly read

Put members to work

Members are helpers that work in their own copy of the repo. Three words cover it.

Run hands over one job. Atris picks the right member and starts it.

atris member run "fix one failing test"

Wake keeps members working, each one pulling the next task that fits. Give a number, or name the members you want.

atris member wake 5
atris member wake navigator executor

Wake only picks jobs that have a test to pass, so members know when they are done. Add one like this:

atris task new "fix the flaky login test" --verify "node --test test/login.test.js"

Each job gets the time limit set for building in your roster, plus a few minutes for review. To see or change it:

atris engine roster

Naming just one member runs one step of work. Add --keep to keep that one member working.

atris member wake executor --keep

Sleep stops the members that are awake.

atris member sleep --all

To watch them, open the board, or follow one member's steps as they happen.

atris member board --watch
tail -f ~/.atris/progress/executor.log

When a member finishes, ask for its result: what it changed, its receipt, and one number. Each member's copy of the repo stays until its work lands, then tidy puts it away.

atris member result executor
atris member tidy --dry-run

The older words still work as aliases: dispatch and go do what run does, and up does what wake does.

How member work gets checked and lands

Every member job ends with its own check, a command that must pass. Then a second engine reviews the change, and it is never the engine that did the work.

Work lands on its own only after you switch self-landing on, once. From then on Atris pushes the branch, opens a pull request, and turns on GitHub auto-merge, so GitHub merges it when the branch is up to date and CI passes.

atris autoland on

Anything else keeps the work on its branch, with one plain line saying why. That covers a failed check or review, unsaved changes, a clash with the main branch, and work that touches a protected area like payments, deploys, or credentials.

A job that fails three times in a row stops and waits for a person.

Chat With Atris 2

ax is the Atris 2 chat and coding-agent CLI. It uses the hosted Atris cloud by default, streams text, shows tool activity, and keeps fresh installs away from local setup.

cd your-project
ax chat ax --fast
ax --fast "hello"
ax --pro "help me plan this task"
ax --max "reason through this hard decision"
ax --doctor

Use Fast for quick chat and low-latency Atris loops. Use Pro for deeper tool loops. Use Max for the hardest jobs; it runs the highest-reasoning model and takes longer per turn. Advanced local workspace mode is opt-in with --local plus AX_BACKEND_URL.

Play AgentXP

AgentXP is the proof-backed game loop for getting better with agents. Start it inside any project folder:

npm exec --yes --package atris@latest -- atris play

The first run creates a local starter mission if one does not exist. The loop is:

start -> proof -> accept -> login -> sync

The player path:

atris play
atris task claim <mission-ref> --as game-manager
atris task ready <mission-ref> --as game-manager --proof "<artifact path + verifier result>"
atris task accept <mission-ref> --as justin --proof "<human review>"
atris xp card --local
atris login
atris xp sync --local

The manager path:

atris gm --player justin

No proof, no AgentXP. atris task done --proof records review/RL context, but only human atris task accept mints Career XP for the local card or hosted leaderboard.

Agents That Sign In On Their Own

atris login signs a person in. An agent can sign itself in with an agent client, so no one has to hand it a login token.

The owner makes the client once. The secret is shown one time, or written to a private file with --secret-file:

atris agent-client create --name nightly-bot --scopes mcp:read,x-search --secret-file ./bot.secret
atris agent-client list
atris agent-client rotate <client_id>
atris agent-client revoke <client_id>

The agent signs in with the id and the secret file. Its short token renews on its own; the secret and token are never printed:

atris login --client-id atc_... --client-secret-file ./bot.secret

Or set ATRIS_CLIENT_ID plus ATRIS_CLIENT_SECRET_FILE (or ATRIS_CLIENT_SECRET) and run atris login once. It reads them, no flags needed, and opens no browser. After that every command renews the token on its own. ATRIS_TOKEN, when set, still wins.

Business Owners

If you want a shared owner for a company, lab, collective, community, artist, team, or project, use the business command instead of raw atris init.

atris business init "Example Co" --owner-email operator@example.com
cd ~/arena/atris-business/example-co
atris business onboard --website https://example.com --contact "Example Owner" --note "sample customer workspace"
atris align --fix

That creates the shared owner, creates its first/default computer, writes .atris/business.json, initializes .atris/state/ for events and run history, and scaffolds the local atris/ workspace under ~/arena/atris-business/<slug>/ with starter roles, a default recap template, and an initial task queue in atris/TODO.md.

If you do not have a neat source pack yet, atris business onboard is the easiest intake step: give it a website, a named human, a few notes, or run it in a folder with loose files. Atris turns that into raw intake, a starter brief, a first workflow, a safe next action, and a short operator brief.

Use the owner's language when you talk about it:

Your business runs on Atris.
Your lab runs on Atris.
Your collective runs on Atris.

You can also use bare input:

atris business onboard https://example.com "founder-led b2b ops" ./notes.md

If you already have a folder full of source material, run it from there with atris business init "Example Co" --here.

When the first recap is done, record it into the RL state logs:

atris business record atris/reports/2026-04-12-operator-recap.md --outcome mixed --metric "operator speed"

Core Commands

Doctor

atris doctor [--json] checks Node, task support, authentication, and workspace readiness.

Document health

atris doc-health [--json] [--questions <path>] scores document size, map coverage, lookup hops, and feature/member freshness from 0 to 100, and lists similar feature names. Tokens are estimated as characters divided by four. Boot load earns all 20 points at or below 80,000 characters, falls linearly to zero at 200,000, and stays at zero above that. Questions default to atris/doc-health/questions.jsonl, one {"q":"where is the CLI router","expect":"bin/atris.js"} per line. Custom paths are relative to the workspace root. Missing questions skip lookup scoring and contribute zero of its 30 points. Member age uses the newest log file's modification time.

Built-In Systems

• atris learn stores structured project memory in atris/learnings.jsonl
• atris wiki keeps repo memory in atris/wiki/ by default, with --cloud when you want the remote workspace path
• atris ingest now stages local source packs under atris/context/_ingest/, writes a manifest receipt, and refreshes atris/wiki/STATUS.md plus log.md
• atris wiki --private stores local-only sensitive notes under .atris/presidio/
• atris loop refreshes atris/wiki/STATUS.md and atris/wiki/log.md, flags stale/orphan pages, and suggests the next ingest
• atris activate loads the current wiki status so the next session starts with project memory, not just tasks
• atris member keeps team-member identity and learning local-first: MEMBER.md is the role contract, goals.json is the machine-readable goal/experiment state, goals.md is the human readout, and logs/YYYY-MM-DD.md records what happened. Use atris member goal, tick, status, block, and review <name> <experiment-id> --accept --proof "..." --value 1..5 to test whether a member is making useful progress or needs the operator/orchestrator.
• atris codex-goal is the read-only bridge for native Codex /goal: status inspects the live goal database, while the legacy reset command now refuses every mutation. Active tasks continue in place; completed tasks retain their final goal, and new work or recurring monitors use a new dedicated Codex task.
• atris task keeps durable local task state and append-only events for agents; atris/TODO.md is just a regenerated readable board. Run the loop with atris task new, delegate "..." --to <owner>, next, say, and ready <id> --proof "..."; human approval is atris task accept <id> (moves to Done, awards Career XP) or revise <id> --note "...". Final task transitions also append the general daily log and, when a real atris/team/<member>/MEMBER.md matches the task owner, that member's daily log. Add --json for headless agents, atris task serve for the local board, and atris task show <ref> / for the full ledger. Commands accept semantic refs (), full IDs, or any unique prefix. In cloud business workspaces, Supabase is the source of truth and Swarlo the live claim layer.

Engines

An engine is the intelligence that builds a mission. Every installed headless coding CLI is a swappable worker behind one contract: a bounded prompt goes in, verified proof comes out, and engines never self-certify their own work. The house default is atris-fast (ax); claude, codex, cursor, devin, grok, and others join when their CLIs are installed.

Who does each job

ROSTER.md says which tool and model does each job. Edit it any time; every project, team member, and new chat follows it.

## build
- claude code, model: opus 5.5

## review
- codex, model: gpt-6-astra, effort: medium, max: 20 min, prep: search
- claude code, model: opus 5.5

The first ready worker leads and the rest are backups. ~/.atris/ROSTER.md covers every project on the machine; atris/ROSTER.md overrides it for one project. A worker that stalls sits out 30 minutes and the next one takes over.

The roster warns when a worker runs an old model and a newer one in the same family is on this machine, and prints the command that moves it. It also warns when a pinned model has no proof in 30 days. A landed run is proof; so is verified 2026-09-30 on the line after a quick smoke test.

atris engine roster                                   # who does what, with each worker's recent record
atris engine assign build claude --model "opus 5.5"   # change a job's lead
atris engine roster --available                       # tools and models on this machine
atris team                                            # who really worked in the last 7 days, then quiet and idle
atris team --record                                   # also save one row per member per day for the learning loop

Show every installed engine and the current default:

atris engine

Flip the default for this workspace (persists to .atris/engine.json):

atris engine cursor
atris engine reset   # back to the house default (atris-fast)

Ride a different engine for one run only, without changing the default. --engine <name> works on mission run, autopilot, and run. Per-run flags and ATRIS_RUNNER_PROFILE always beat the saved file.

atris mission run "fix the flaky login test" --engine codex

Fleet Flight

atris mission run --fleet staffs every idle installed engine on the board's claimable safe-lane tasks: one mission per task, one worktree per engine. Builds run in parallel; arrivals land serially with rebase-before-ship, so a rebase conflict pauses that landing (never auto-resolved) and keeps its worktree instead of orphaning work. Each flight writes a receipt to atris/runs/fleet-<stamp>.json.

atris mission run --fleet --slots 3          # staff up to 3 engines
atris mission run --fleet --dry-run          # preview the staffing only

Verifiable Feedback Loop

Under the hood, Atris can keep score on real repo work.

• Tasks can carry a Verify: command, so work can end on a deterministic check instead of pure prose.
• Plan, do, and review now carry the same Confidence Gate: find every plausible loophole, patch it with source/proof/verifier/owner/rollback, or name it as residual risk before advancing.
• atris autopilot can run that check after review and record the result in the journal.
• Future task picks can use recent results, so Atris learns from repo-local history without claiming model retraining.

Benchmark Harness

Atris ships one public head-to-head benchmark harness for comparing a pinned single-model baseline against a coordinated stack run on the same task brief.

Quickstart:

node bin/atris.js experiments validate endstate-baseline
node bin/atris.js experiments validate endstate-stack
node bin/atris.js experiments run endstate-baseline --dry-run
node bin/atris.js experiments run endstate-stack --dry-run
node bin/atris.js experiments compare endstate

One-command rehearsal:

node bin/atris.js experiments replay endstate

What to inspect:

• receipts land in atris/experiments/endstate-baseline/artifacts/ and atris/experiments/endstate-stack/artifacts/
• scores append to each pack's results.tsv
• atris experiments compare endstate prints the latest side-by-side comparison
• atris experiments replay endstate runs the full public dry-run rehearsal
• the benchmark contract lives at atris/features/endstate/contract.md
• the verification log lives at atris/features/endstate/validate.md

The stack wins Level 1 only if it beats the baseline on total score and does not lose the reviewed completion category.

Skills

Atris ships a real skill catalog in atris/skills/, not just one workflow file.

Examples:

• atris, autopilot, autoresearch, wiki, loop
• backend, design, copy-editor, meta, writing
• github, email-agent, calendar, drive, slack, notion, slides, x-search, youtube, ramp
• apps, create-app, create-member, memory, magic-inbox, improve, skill-improver, flow

atris skill list
atris skill audit [name]
atris skill fix [name]
atris skill create <name>
atris skill link [--all]

For Codex, copy any skill folder into ~/.codex/skills/.

Before a New Version

Run the release-facing checks before bumping:

node bin/atris.js --help
node bin/atris.js pulse --help
node bin/atris.js release --help
node --test

Then dry-run the release:

atris release --dry-run

atris release drafts or publishes from local git history. --dry-run prints the planned bump without committing, tagging, or pushing.

Update

atris upgrade     # Install latest from npm
atris update      # Sync local workspace files to new version

Packaged npm installs check for new versions during normal commands and start a background update automatically. Git checkout installs stay manual so linked development copies are not overwritten unexpectedly.

License: MIT | Repo: github.com/atrislabs/atris