Atelier - Quality of life

Atelier has a whole bunch of quality of life features that I really like.

Let's go through some of them.

I am back with my fighting game here.

And if I open VS code here and go to Rina H, which is a file that if you change causes quite a lot of rebuilds to happen.

If I ask the agent to build it again, you can see that we have live visualization of these BASH tool calls, which is nice for situations like this Game engine, which has a build system that is very sort of visual moving has all this UNSI stuff really gives you an idea of what is going on.

And I really like to be able to see that myself even when I'm working through an agent.

that is live Bash.

there's also these things in when agents emit bash calls they often look like this, right?

like this huge line with just garbled stuff.

And it's really hard to figure out what is going on.

And in Atelier, on the Bash tool visualizer you can always.

It defaults to readable and it actually syntax highlights it and reformats it so that you have an idea of what the agent is actually doing.

And variation of that is here below where normally it would look like this.

But then in the readable format we actually notice that even though this total thing is Bash, that the inner thing is actually JavaScript and that the inner.

Actually the inner thing runs to, here.

No, to here.

Yeah.

So this is JavaScript and then gets syntax highlighted into JavaScript.

reminder.

yes, the shortcut.

So very much inspired by the PY coding agent.

we have like when you use Atelier on your project, the agent has full access to Atelier's documentation.

So here I asked what are these land and Simplify buttons doing in my prompt thingy?

which is here.

And then I'll tell you, actually that's Atelier feature there's called Quick Launch prompt templates.

Then if I say like, can I want to have one that makes jokes in French?

the agent actually knows because it can read its own the Atelier docs, it knows where to put this prompt template and it auto reloads.

And apparently bleg is French for joke.

It gave the J shortcut.

So I'm going to do command option J.

And there we go.

I have to assume, that that is actually funny in French, but we'll roll with it.

what else do we have full screen?

Whenever you are dealing with something in Atelier, sometimes like there's A lot of stuff on screen and you actually want to focus on something.

Pretty much everything you can make, full screen.

Like I can go to VS code here, I can make it full screen with F.

I can go to the terminal.

I can make it full screen with F.

Same, for the review, but also for.

Let's see.

I think these should also work BASH tool visualizations, inline images, inline video, inline HTML, all of this stuff.

You basically hover over it and you hit F.

for when you're you know, when your vision is not as good as when it was in your 20s.

All right, then we have pop outs, when we have our inline browser like here.

do we still have an inline browser?

Yeah, like here and you're playing this game.

Sometimes you can of course full screen this with F as well.

But sometimes it's nice to actually pop it out to like a full browser so that you have like your full Chrome set up with your like developer and your console tools and all that stuff.

So you can do that with the pop out button over there.

what else do we have?

Historic agent sessions.

here I asked the agent to summarize the last 10 agent sessions.

And the reason it's able to do that is that atelier, it read only mounts in your file system all the historic agent sessions for that project.

So you can actually ask it to search, through the history of when you were working on something.

I asked it to do a summary here of the last stuff I worked on.

If you actually go to the directory with your terminal, you can see that like all these files are there.

They're all JSON files.

then we have one more.

let me open a terminal here and show persistent.

I can make a file in persistent.

Hello MD.

Hello.

From 1.

And the whole persistent directory is shared between all workspaces from one project.

So if I go to this live bash, which is also from the same project and go to a terminal here, I should be able to see that same file.

So that is sometimes convenient if you want to do handoffs or the.

Yeah, I mostly use it for handoffs.

all right, I think we are almost there.

we have Park.

Sometimes when you ask an agent to do some work and it comes back and it turns out it's actually not that easy to evaluate.

It's super hard.

It requires judgment and thinking and you know, you have to deal with it sometime.

But maybe not right now.

what I do in those cases, I click my workspace here and I have this park button.

And when you do that, it gets stored in this sort of, like, folded up park section.

And it allows you to keep these things around and not forget about them, but also not be reminded all the time about them as you do active work.

because sometimes, you know, I don't know about you, but I will have like 10 things that are parked and four things I work on actively.

And it's just super annoying if they keep getting into the way.