Launch Sequence Initiated
No jargon. No YAML. No 40-step tutorials. Pick your platform below and follow the cards — we'll hold your hand the whole way. (Metaphorically. ATLAS will do that later, literally, via hotkey.)
Mac install is the good kind of boring. One .dmg, one drag, a polite goodbye to the disk image. You'll be at the welcome screen in ninety seconds flat.
Head over to /downloads.html and hit the Mac download button. The file weighs in at roughly 450MB and runs on both Apple Silicon and Intel — one universal binary, no forking.
Double-click the downloaded file in your Downloads folder (or hit it from the dock bounce). A classic Mac install window slides open — the kind with the big app icon on the left and an Applications shortcut on the right.
Click the ATLAS icon, drag it across the window, and drop it onto the Applications folder shortcut. You'll hear the satisfying Finder copy whoosh.
Find the ATLAS drive in your Finder sidebar, right-click it, and pick Eject. Don't leave it mounted — it's rude, and it clutters your sidebar.
The private-alpha build isn't code-signed yet, so Apple's Gatekeeper is going to throw a small tantrum. Two clicks and you're past it.
Launch ATLAS from Launchpad or double-click it in Applications. macOS will pop a stern dialog that says something like "ATLAS can't be opened because it is from an unidentified developer" or "macOS cannot verify the developer of ATLAS".
Click Cancel (or OK) on that dialog. Do not move it to Trash. We're about to outsmart it.
Head back to your Applications folder. Right-click (or Control+click) the ATLAS icon and choose Open from the menu.
A new dialog appears — same warning, but this one has an Open button. Click it. You're in.
If the right-click trick doesn't cough up an Open button (it happens on some macOS versions), go the long way:
Open System Settings → Privacy & Security. Scroll all the way down until you see a line that reads "ATLAS was blocked from use because it is not from an identified developer." Next to it sits an Open Anyway button. Click it, then confirm with your Mac password or Touch ID.
Sign in to unlock your credit balance and wake up your encrypted memory. No passwords, no OTP codes — just one tap.
ATLAS greets you with a welcome screen. The subtitle reads: "A calm, proactive personal AI. Setup takes under two minutes." (It really does.) Click the big Get Started button.
A secure sign-in window pops up. The status line at the bottom will say "Opening secure sign-in…" — that's normal. Follow the prompts in the window (phone, email, or one-tap, depending on what you pick).
When the check mark appears, the wizard advances automatically. Behind the scenes, your credit balance loads and your encrypted memory wakes up from its nap.
Thirty seconds of customization so ATLAS feels like yours, not a default install.
The default is ⌥+Space (Alt+Space). Tap it from anywhere and the ATLAS overlay materializes.
Want something else? Click Record new and press your combo. ATLAS will gently warn you if your choice collides with another app's shortcut — it won't let you accidentally break Spotlight.
Three options: System, Light, or Dark. System quietly follows your Mac's appearance setting, so ATLAS flips with the rest of your OS at sunset.
The default backend is gemini-live with the voice Aoede. Other backends and voices show up in the dropdown depending on your configuration — pick whichever one you want talking to you all day.
Off by default. Flip the toggle and ATLAS will listen for a phrase — the default is "Hey Atlas", but you can change it to literally anything. "Yo compiler". "Wake up, kid." ATLAS doesn't judge.
Mac asks for four permissions. Each one unlocks a specific power. Every one of them is skippable — skipped tiles go amber on the Ready Hub and you can flip them on later.
Why ATLAS asks: "Global hotkey + overlay above other apps."
Without Accessibility access, your global hotkey won't summon the overlay. macOS treats hotkeys-from-anywhere as a privileged action, so this one is kind of a must-have.
Why ATLAS asks: "Screenshots and screen-aware help."
This lets ATLAS actually see what's on your screen when you ask something like "what does this error mean?" or "summarize this PDF I'm looking at". Skip it and screen-aware answers politely turn into guesses.
Why ATLAS asks: "Voice messages and live voice."
Required for Talk mode and the wake word. If you skipped the wake word in the last step and you don't plan on talking to ATLAS out loud, you can skip this too — nothing breaks.
Why ATLAS asks: "Location-aware reminders."
Optional. Lets ATLAS know whether you're at home or at work so it can context-switch reminders ("remind me to grab the package when I get home"). Happy to skip.
ATLAS now assembles its engine. Seven phases download in the background. Don't quit mid-install — it's resumable, sure, but it's annoying for both of us.
A progress bar ticks through each phase. A rotating "Did you know?" card plays trivia about ATLAS while you wait — educational and entertaining.
The seven phases are:
Usually it's a network hiccup — cafe Wi-Fi, VPN flapping, that kind of thing. Click Retry failed phase and it picks up right where it left off. Everything is resumable. No redownloads.
Welcome to the Ready Hub — the home base for launching, talking, and typing to ATLAS.
You'll see "Ready to go" next to your Mac username in the greeting. Three buttons await:
ATLAS is now humming quietly in your menu bar and dock. Press your hotkey (⌥+Space by default) from anywhere — any app, any moment — to summon the overlay.
No app store, no package-manager gymnastics — just a friendly .exe that puts ATLAS on your PC in about the time it takes to brew coffee.
Head to /downloads.html and grab the Windows build. It's roughly 450 MB, requires Windows 10 or 11, and only runs on 64-bit machines. (Sorry, 32-bit friends — the year is no longer 2009.)
Find the file in your Downloads folder and double-click it. The NSIS installer opens — the small, classic wizard that's been ushering Windows apps onto PCs since before you were online.
Default install location is %ProgramFiles%\A.T.L.A.S\. You don't need to change it. Hit Next, Next, Install, then Finish. Four clicks. That's the entire ritual.
Hit the Win key, type ATLAS, and press Enter. Prefer the desktop shortcut? If you ticked that box during install, it's waiting for you there too.
The alpha build isn't signed by a Microsoft-trusted certificate yet, so SmartScreen throws up a friendly blue warning the first time you launch. Expected. Here's how to tiptoe past it.
A blue dialog appears, looking very stern. It wants you to click Don't run. Do not do that. Windows is just being polite — it hasn't met ATLAS before.
See that tiny, almost-hidden More info link on the dialog? Click it. A new button materializes below — the one Microsoft low-key wants you to notice.
Tap Run anyway. SmartScreen is now satisfied and will leave ATLAS alone forever after.
Signing in is what turns ATLAS from "nice local app" into "personal AI with credits, encrypted memory, and a cloud-backed spine." Takes about ten seconds.
The welcome screen greets you with a subtitle that says "A calm, proactive personal AI. Setup takes under two minutes." It's not lying. Click the big Get Started button.
A secure sign-in window opens. Status text reads "Opening secure sign-in…" Pick your method — phone, email, Google, whatever — and approve on your device.
The wizard auto-advances the moment authentication completes. Your credits get provisioned and encrypted memory comes online. You don't need to do anything — just watch the checkmark land.
This is the part where ATLAS stops being "some app" and starts feeling like yours. Pick how you summon it, how it looks, how it sounds.
Default is Ctrl+Space. Press it from literally anywhere on Windows and ATLAS appears. Want something else? Click Record new and mash your favorite combo.
Three options: System (matches whatever Windows is doing), Light (cheerful, bright), or Dark (for the 2 AM crowd). Pick whichever makes your retinas happiest.
Default backend is gemini-live with the voice Aoede — warm, clear, slightly musical. You can swap it later if Aoede isn't your jam.
Off by default — because the idea of a mic that's always listening is, uh, a vibe shift. If you want it on, the default phrase is "Hey Atlas". Flip the toggle when you're ready.
Unlike some other operating systems, Windows doesn't make you sign a stack of permission slips upfront. It asks as you go — just-in-time, just when you need it.
The wizard shows a single info card that basically says:
Nothing to grant right now. Click Continue and carry on. ATLAS will knock on the door when it actually needs something.
Windows pops native prompts the first time ATLAS reaches for something. You'll see them roughly in this order:
ATLAS now downloads 7 components and stitches itself together. Don't quit mid-install — it's resumable, but still annoying. Grab water instead.
Here's what's happening under the hood:
A rotating "Did you know?" card plays trivia while you wait. This is the most relaxing part of the whole setup. Bring snacks.
Click Allow. ATLAS uses a local browser engine and audio tools, which sometimes trip heuristic flags — the antivirus equivalent of a smoke alarm going off when you toast bread. Totally fine. Totally expected.
Click Retry failed phase. Usually a network blip — ATLAS picks up exactly where it left off, no full restart required.
Installed. Signed in. Personalized. Patiently waiting. This is the last step. Congrats, you made it.
A "Ready to go" screen appears with a greeting and three buttons — your choose-your-own-adventure moment:
ATLAS minimizes to the system tray and gets to work quietly. Press Ctrl+Space anywhere — your browser, a doc, the desktop, inside a game — to summon the overlay. Welcome to the AGI experience.
The ATLAS Bridge is a tiny Chrome extension that lets the desktop app peek into your tabs and drive the wheel when you ask it to. No Web Store listing, no magic — just an unpacked install that takes about 30 seconds. Grab a timer if you don't believe us.
Head back to the downloads page and grab atlas chrome plugin.zip. It's the small one — you'll know it when you see it.
Somewhere sensible like your Documents folder. Do not leave it in Downloads if you're the type who routinely nukes that folder — Chrome rescans the extension's files every time it boots, and if the folder is gone, the extension is gone.
chrome://extensionsPaste that into your address bar and hit Enter. This works in Chrome, Edge, Brave, Arc, Vivaldi, Opera, and pretty much anything else Chromium-flavored. You'll land on your browser's extension-management page.
Top-right corner of the extensions page, there's a switch labeled Developer mode. Flip it on. New buttons will slide in from stage left — that's what you want.
A new button appears top-left once Dev Mode is on — Load unpacked. Click it. A file picker opens.
Point the file picker at the folder that contains manifest.json. You want the folder itself, not any of its contents. Click Select / Open.
manifest.json at its root — not a parent folder, not a subfolder. Just the one.It should now show up in your extensions list with a green On toggle. Click the puzzle-piece icon in your toolbar, find ATLAS Bridge, and hit the little pushpin next to it so the icon lives in your toolbar permanently. You'll be clicking it a lot.
The extension is a dumb antenna until ATLAS desktop is running. They talk to each other over a WebSocket on localhost:18792 — all traffic stays on your machine.
If you haven't launched it yet, go do that first. The extension needs something on the other end of the wire.
In your toolbar. The popup drops down. You'll see the ATLAS logo up top, and a little pill in the corner that tells you what's going on.
Top-right of the popup. It's one of three states:
18792.
The popup is small but dense. Here's every control, decoded. You don't have to memorize it — it all makes sense the moment you click around.
Shows what ATLAS is doing right now. Idle 💤, working ⚡ (with a spinner and a line like "Clicking Submit…"), done ✅.
Every visible Chrome tab, stacked. Your active tab is highlighted blue. Click any row to tell ATLAS to focus that tab instead.
A live log of ATLAS's last 6 moves. Emoji icons decode at a glance: 🖱 click, ⌨️ type, ↕ scroll, → navigate, 🔍 scan, 👆 hover, 📷 screenshot, ⚡ execute_js.
A type-to-ATLAS field. Anything you send drops straight into the overlay conversation — great for a follow-up question without switching windows.
One-tap "hey ATLAS, look at what I'm reading." Sends the current URL, page title, and visible content. Your go-to for "summarize this."
Highlight text on the page first, then click this. ATLAS receives just what you selected, plus the URL for context. Sharper than Send Page when you know the relevant bit.
Kills the currently running ATLAS task mid-flight. Handy when it goes off-script and starts clicking things you didn't want clicked.
Lives in the footer. Tears down the WebSocket and rebuilds it. Use when the pill is stuck on yellow or you've just restarted the desktop app.
ATLAS's most recent reply, shown inline with a blue left border. It's truncated here — the full conversation lives in the desktop overlay.
Once the bridge is installed, ATLAS quietly adds two items to your browser's right-click menu. This is the fastest way to pipe a page — or just one paragraph of it — into a conversation.
Pick "Ask ATLAS about this page". The whole page (URL, title, visible content) zips over to ATLAS. Perfect for research, summarization, fact-checking, or "what does this thing even say?"
Select any text first, then right-click → "Ask ATLAS about this". ATLAS gets just your selection plus the URL — nothing else. Much tighter signal than sending the whole page.
Once the bridge is live, ATLAS can read pages, click buttons, fill forms, scroll, navigate to URLs, take screenshots, and even run JavaScript inside a tab — all while you watch it happen. The Recent Actions log in the popup narrates every move in real time, so you're never guessing what the agent is up to. It's less "robot takes over your computer" and more "extremely fast coworker sharing your screen."
Your first 60 seconds with ATLAS. No tutorials, no tours, no 14-step onboarding. Just press a key and start talking.
⌥+Space on Mac, Ctrl+Space on Windows. A glassmorphic overlay slides in wherever you are — on top of your browser, your IDE, your Figma, your anything.
No magic syntax. No slash commands to memorize. Ask it like you'd ask a smart friend who happens to own your computer. A few to get you started:
What's on my calendar tomorrow?Summarize the last three emails from my boss.Build me a landing page for a coffee subscription — launch it on Vercel.Find me three paying remote UX jobs and open the applications.It'll narrate as it goes — which tools it's calling, what it's clicking, what it's thinking. Stop it anytime. Edit the plan anytime. You're the director; ATLAS is the very capable, very fast crew.
Voice mode: the lazy-genius button. When typing feels like a chore, hold down a conversation instead.
Or just say your wake word if you enabled it — "Hey Atlas" by default. The orb pulses, the mic opens, and you're live.
Sub-second latency. Interrupt mid-sentence. Change your mind. Trail off. ATLAS keeps up. It also shuts up when you start talking — no talking-over-you thing that other assistants do.
ATLAS can live on Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, email, and Matrix — all from the same brain, same memory, same identity. Connect as many as you want from the Channels page in the desktop app.
1234567890:ABCdef…987654321,555666777)Where to get it: open @BotFather on Telegram → /newbot → copy the token.
Create a bot in the Discord Developer Portal → Bot → Reset Token → copy.
Just tap the button. Slack will walk you through permissions.
Uses Baileys under the hood. Pair takes 3–10 seconds.
imap.gmail.com:993smtp.gmail.com:587Gmail/Outlook presets auto-fill the hosts. You only need an app password.
https://matrix.orgLog in to your Matrix client → Settings → Help & About → Advanced → copy access token.
ATLAS isn't a chatbot. It's a continuously running process with memory, tools, and the ability to drive your computer. Here's a taste of what it actually does.
Remembers every conversation. Not in a creepy way — in a "oh you mentioned this last week, want to pick it back up?" way. All local, all encrypted, all on your machine.
Try: "What did we decide about the pricing page last Thursday?"
Up to 500 sources per run. Generates hypotheses, scores credibility, reranks relevance. It's a research intern that doesn't sleep, doesn't flake, and doesn't need coffee.
Try: "Research the current state of small-batch robotics startups and send me a 5-page brief."
Decomposes big tasks into sub-agents (researcher, coder, browser-user) that work in parallel. You give one prompt; a team does the work.
Try: "Build a Chrome extension that adds a dark mode toggle, then write its Product Hunt launch copy."
Drives your browser via the Chrome extension. Clicks, types, navigates, screenshots. No API required — if you can do it with a mouse, ATLAS can do it too.
Try: "Apply to five remote UX jobs matching my resume. Draft each cover letter in my voice."
Design-doc gating, LSP integration, per-repo codebase index, git worktrees, code critic (compile / test / lint / SAST). Not vibe-coding — actual engineering.
Try: "Refactor our auth middleware to use JWT rotation. Write tests. Open a PR."
Project-scoped pipeline: scene detection, beat sync, AI edit planning, FFmpeg render. Hash-addressed for reproducibility — same inputs always give the same cut.
Try: "Cut my 40-minute Zoom recording into a 90-second highlight reel set to this mp3."
Native integrations with 9 platforms: Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, X, Facebook, YouTube, Reddit, Product Hunt. Content calendars. Cold outreach. Trend research.
Try: "Post my new blog across LinkedIn and X in native formats. Schedule the Instagram carousel for tomorrow 9am IST."
While you sleep, ATLAS consolidates memory, plans tomorrow, and keeps a morning brief waiting. Quiet hours 22:30–07:00 by default — it won't ping you at 3am.
Try: "Every morning, brief me on inbox, calendar, and any task I left half-done yesterday."
Software is software. Here's what occasionally goes sideways and the 30-second fix for each.
Likely: Accessibility permission got skipped (Mac) or another app stole your hotkey (Windows). Open Settings → Hotkey and pick a different combo, or on Mac head to System Settings → Privacy & Security → Accessibility and re-enable ATLAS.
Make sure the desktop app is running. Click Reconnect in the popup. If it's still red: port 18792 may be taken by another app — check lsof -i :18792 (Mac) or netstat -ano | findstr 18792 (Windows) and kill the offender.
99% of the time it's a network hiccup. Click Retry failed phase — each phase resumes independently, so you won't lose progress. If it keeps failing on the same one, check your connection and free disk space (~3GB needed).
Mac: System Settings → Notifications → ATLAS → Enable. Windows: click Allow when it prompts the first time, or go to Settings → Privacy & Security → Notifications and let ATLAS through.
Mac: System Settings → Privacy & Security → Microphone → toggle ATLAS on. Windows: Settings → Privacy & Security → Microphone → let ATLAS in. Then restart the app once to be safe.
Open the Ready Hub. Skipped permissions show as amber tiles with an Un-skip button. Click it to re-prompt — no reinstall needed.
Email hi@tryatlasagi.com or hit the contact page. We read every message — no auto-replies, no ticket numbers, no "your call is important to us". Just a human, usually within a day.
We read every message. If something's weird, broken, or confusing — tell us. It's how ATLAS gets better (and how you get unblocked in minutes, not days).