Business knowledge
What the product should do.
Requirements, domain rules, designs and the decisions people make. Intake brings the decisions this task needs into the working context.
Product rules · owner answers · accepted intent
Reinforced AI-native development environments
Keep your coding agent. Reinforce the environment it works in.
Give your agent the repository evidence, settled decisions and project controls the work needs. Keep company know-how through changes, people and sessions.
- Built around Claude Code
- Code and records stay local by default
- In active development · early access
Illustrative workflowConceptual
- TaskUpdate a shared component.An ordinary request to the agent you already use.
- Evidence · local MCPExisting usages, callers and the related test files.Each with a source reference. Unmapped ground is named, not guessed.
- Decision · IntakePreserve the agreed interaction.Asked once, of the person who can decide. Kept with who decided and when.
- Control · gateResearch required before a protected edit.The gate names what is missing and what to do next.
Why now
The bottleneck moved from typing to context.
Coding agents can produce code before the organisation has settled what that code should do. AtlasBound supports the work around them: technical evidence, human decisions, project controls and a working record that survives the session.
Recognise the friction
Six recurring problems. One reinforced environment.
- 01
The world is scattered
Code, tests, product rules and owner decisions each hold a piece of the story.
Source-linked repository records and Intake decisions bring the task’s evidence together.
- 02
Context is not engineered
Too little invites guesses. Too much buries the line this task needs.
The agent pulls a relevant slice through MCP tools, then reads the live source.
- 03
Changes happen before research
An existing helper is missed; a shared component’s consumers go unseen.
Mapped usages and impact queries support research. Configured gates can require it before an edit.
- 04
Missing requirements become guesses
The agent invents a rule and writes a passing test for that same guess.
Intake records the intended behaviour so implementation, testing and review share the decision.
- 05
Every change brings another pattern
Near-duplicate helpers and new conventions become the next session’s examples.
Approved patterns and project rules reach sessions; verified convention departures ask for confirmation.
- 06
Memory does not survive
A reset loses the plan. Months later, the reason behind a constraint is missing.
Intake history, checkpoints and Handoff preserve recorded decisions and working state.
Two kinds of knowledge
The product’s rules. The application’s reality.
Technical knowledge
How your application is built.
AtlasBound builds a local, closed-world technical map from the repository: components, routes and APIs, usage patterns, callers, tests, fixtures and helpers. Schema facts are available where mapped.
Modules → consumers → usage sites → tests
A bounded census names what was collected and what was not. An unmapped area stays unknown; a missing search result is not proof of absence.
Context engineering
Keep the map outside. Pull the part you need.
The technical knowledge base can be large. The agent retrieves source pointers for the question at hand; the rest stays outside the context window.
Local repository map
- Components & their usages
- Routes, APIs & callers
- Tests, fixtures & helpers
- Patterns & conventions
- Schema facts, where mapped
One task · one relevant slice
blast_radius Dialog.tsxConfirmDialog.tsx:41DeleteAccount.tsx:88dialog.test.ts:12
Follow these pointers into the live source.
Illustrative names and paths. This is an excerpt, not a complete tool result or a coverage claim.
One connected environment
Evidence → decisions → controlled work → continuity.
Knowledge feeds research. Intake settles the gaps and prepares the plan. Configured gates check protected actions. Checkpoints and Handoff carry the work forward.
Map→Ask→Verify→Enforce↻Carry forward …
Company know-how
The code keeps the change. Intake keeps the decision.
Months later, start from the record.
A bug in an old feature can begin with its earlier Intake: what was decided, who recorded it, when, any reason supplied, and how implementation departed from the plan.
See how a later bug fix uses the history →A fresh session can continue the work.
Checkpoint and request a Handoff before clearing. The next session reads the settled decisions, grounded findings and next action from the ordered working brief.
Follow the Handoff cycle →Local by design
Your code stays on your machines.
AtlasBound runs beside your coding agent on the developer’s machine. Repository code, knowledge records and Intake history are processed and stored locally by default. AtlasBound does not host a copy of your codebase.
- Local records
- Repository records, decision history and context packs live in your environment, under your own storage, backup and access practices.
- Content-free measurements
- Normal measurement telemetry carries counts, health states and hashed identifiers, not source code, file contents or readable repository paths. Service checks carry bounded identity and version information.
- Optional sharing you control
- The decision exchange is off until configured: you preview and approve a bounded question for a named teammate and receive their reply through the hosted service. Separately, an explicitly enabled tester/debug tier can send redacted development traces; feedback sends the message you choose to submit. See the sharing limits.
- Your agent’s provider
- What your coding agent sends to its model provider is governed by that provider’s terms, not by AtlasBound.
Work with AtlasBound
Reinforce the environment your team works in.
Start with your repository, where agent work loses context, and the surfaces you want protected. AtlasBound is in active development; engagements are scoped through direct contact. Effectiveness has not yet been established or published.
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Built around Claude Code · early access