What changed, and when

After you've used the Atlarix extension for a few chats, it asks once whether you'd like to rate it,

and never asks again. Ratings are how other developers find it in the Marketplace and Open VSX.

The Atlarix extension's pages on the VS Code Marketplace and Open VSX now link to its repository

and show that it's free. Nothing changes in the app, the terminal or the extension itself.

Install Atlarix in VS Code, Cursor, Kiro or Windsurf. Search for "Atlarix" in the VS Code

Marketplace or Open VSX; the Atlarix CLI comes inside the extension, so there's nothing else to

set up. You get everything you use in the app: Build, Explore, Plan, Debug and Review modes; any

model, including your own keys; edits shown in the editor's own diff before anything is written;

plans you can read and build with one click; questions answered from a card; your Chrome; and

messages between your Atlarix sessions. Your account is there too: plan, credit and usage, Pro or

credit, managing or cancelling your subscription, signing out, your own API keys, and this

folder's MCP servers. Run out, and the message offers credit, Pro or your own key right there.

Take a chat anywhere. Type /editor in the terminal, or pick "Open in your editor" on a

session in the app, and the chat opens in VS Code, Cursor or Kiro. From the editor you can carry

it on in the app or the terminal. Plans now tick off step by step while Atlarix builds them.

Zed and JetBrains, smoother. The mode picker follows Atlarix when a plan is built, plans show

as the editor's own checklist, /status, /billing, /mcp and /logout work in the chat, and a

chat that can't start tells you why.

Meet Rix, the Atlarix ant. A weaver ant: the globe is any model, the compass antenna finds the

way. He heads a new terminal header (version, model, mode, plan and folder, on the left, scrolling

away with the conversation) and appears in the app, the extensions and on the site.

Back where you were. Come back to a chat after a few minutes away and one line tells you

where it stands, in the app, the terminal, Chrome and your editor. Switch it off any time

(Settings → Notifications, or /recap off in the terminal).

Privacy. For people who opted in to usage data, it now includes an approximate location

(country and city). The IP address itself isn't kept.

Fixes. You can watch the model think, and its answer appear, as it writes them in your editor

and the terminal. A reply that is just a number no longer disappears. A revoked API key now says

so, instead of "Something went wrong".

Use Atlarix inside Zed, JetBrains IDEs and VS Code. Atlarix now speaks the Agent Client

Protocol, the open standard editors use to host coding agents. Point your editor at atlarix acp

and Atlarix appears in its agent panel: the chat, the diffs and the Allow/Deny buttons are the

editor's own, and the work happens with your Atlarix account, models and settings. Every edit and

command still waits for your OK. In Zed, add Atlarix under agent_servers; in JetBrains, use AI

Assistant → Agents → Add Custom Agent; in VS Code, use the ACP Client extension. An editor

session can also hand a browser task to Chrome and get the answer back, like the terminal and the

app.

Fixes. Typing quickly in the app's message box could freeze the chat with an error; it no

longer does. Two editor windows opened back to back no longer end up sharing one conversation.

Hand a browser task to Chrome from your terminal or the app. Atlarix's Chrome extension is

now one of your sessions. From the terminal or the app, ask Atlarix to send Chrome a job, such as

"list this release on a launch site" or "draft these emails". The Atlarix icon in your browser

shows a badge; click it and the side panel starts on the task. You can steer it as it works

("shorter, less salesy") while your coding session keeps going, and Chrome sends the result

back when it is done. It works the other way too: from the browser, ask Atlarix to send

something to your terminal or app. Sending to a session that did not ask always waits for your

OK, and Atlarix still stops before any final submit.

More room on the free tier when you are new. Free Atlarix Auto now gives new accounts twice

the daily allowance for their first week, and when the full-speed share is used it says so

("Free, slower model") instead of quietly getting slower.

Pay as you go, front and centre. When the free share runs out, Atlarix offers to add credit

(from $10, no subscription) or use your own key first, and Pro after. The Chrome extension's

out-of-credit message does the same.

Atlarix can look at images, video and audio. It can open a screenshot or a chart it made,

pull frames out of a video and look at them, or transcribe a recording, in the app and in the

terminal. On Atlarix Auto it moves to a model that can see as soon as an image arrives.

Your sessions can message each other. A terminal session and an app session (or two of

either) can hand work back and forth on your computer, and the message shows as a note from

that session, never as something you typed. /handoff continues a terminal session in the app,

and "Continue in terminal" opens an app session in the terminal. Turn it off under

Settings → Notifications.

Web search on Atlarix models. With credit or Pro, Atlarix searches the web through Atlarix

itself first, which is faster and more reliable, and falls back to the free search.

The app stays light on long tasks. A long Build turn used to keep growing in memory; it now

sends only what changed, keeps command output bounded and folds older steps. The right-hand

panel no longer covers the chat.

Atlarix in Slack shows its work. One status message per task updates as it goes, from its

plan and steps to the pull request, merged or failed with the reason. Attach a screenshot and

the run gets it, tag teammates to get a private channel for the task, and ask it questions like

"why didn't my last task run?".

Also: local models from Ollama or LM Studio need no API key, temporary files land in

Atlarix's own scratch folder, atlarix --attach sends files with a scripted task, reasoning

models no longer get a temperature they ignore, and a fresh npm i -g atlarix never finds the

package without its binary.

Sub-agents work in the terminal. They failed to start before; now they run on the model

you're using, and each one shows on its own row under the prompt box: what it's doing, for how

long, and its tokens. Press ↓ and enter to watch one work, and ← → to switch between them.

Each mode follows its own instructions in every project. Outside Atlarix's own code, the

terminal app was missing the instructions behind Build, Plan, Ask, Debug and Review, and

sub-agents couldn't start. It carries them with it now.

Read the plan while you decide. A plan waiting to be built stays pinned above the prompt

box. Type what to change and watch it update, then press "Build it" or type /build.

Code is coloured. Code in answers and in edits is syntax highlighted, for whichever

languages you actually use, and inline code stands out in lavender.

Sending is instant. The first message no longer pauses for a second before it appears.

Clearer at a glance. The context meter shows tokens used out of the model's limit, long

session names are shortened, a message you send while Atlarix works shows where it read it

instead of under the reply, /compact typed mid-answer waits for the answer to finish, and

pasting the same text again expands it so you can edit it.

Also: replies draw without flicker or cut-off lines, the terminal tab shows when Atlarix is

working, Atlarix checks what your project is built with instead of assuming package.json, and

npm i -g atlarix installs two packages instead of forty.

Atlarix runs in your terminal. The same Atlarix as the app: your sessions, models, keys,

MCP servers and automations are all there. Install it with one line:

• macOS and Linux: curl -fsSL https://atlarix.dev/install | sh
• Windows: irm https://atlarix.dev/install.ps1 | iex
• Homebrew: brew install amariahak/atlarix/atlarix
• npm: npm i -g atlarix

Then type atlarix in any project. It keeps itself up to date. Sign in from your browser, or

with atlarix login --device on a machine without one.

Atlarix can work on your code while your computer is off. Ask from Slack or from

atlarix.dev/cloud. Atlarix does the work in your repository's own GitHub Actions and brings

back a pull request; nothing is merged until you approve it. It runs on paid Atlarix models,

or free on your own API key.

Relics: pages to share. Ask Atlarix for a report, a plan or a design as a relic. On a paid

Atlarix model it gets a private link you can share when you're ready; otherwise it is saved in

your project. A new Relics tab in the app lists them all.

Sign in with email. If you'd rather not use Google, GitHub or Discord, you can now create an

account with an email and password.