# Atlas

> Atlas draws your whole Space on one canvas, and its director changes templates, roles and prompts for you from a request in plain words.

**Atlas** draws your whole Definition Space on one canvas, so you can see how it fits together: which roles use which prompts, Skills and tools, which templates the roles work in, and which Plugins they rely on. Its director turns a request in plain words into changes to the Space, made in front of you.

Open it with the **Atlas** tab next to the editors for roles, prompts, Skills, MCP and templates; the page is titled **Definition Atlas**. With the developer view on, **Teams and tools** lists it too, under **In the developer view**.

![The Atlas canvas with the director at work](https://the-zeroth.com/docs-assets/images/0.5/en/atlas-canvas.png)

## The canvas [#the-canvas]

Each kind of definition has a zone of its own: **Prompts**, **Skills**, **MCP**, **Agents** (roles), **Graphs** (working-group templates) and **External Plugins**, the Plugins your roles use from outside the Space. Prompts, Skills and roles kept in folders are grouped by folder. Lines show who uses what and which role extends which.

* Select an item to light up everything connected to it. A prompt, Skill, MCP server or Plugin also opens a panel that lists what uses it. A Plugin's panel says whether it is installed, opens the roles and templates that use it in their editors, and has **Open in Plugin Center**.
* Zoom out for the shape of the whole Space and in for the details; **Back to overview** fits everything on screen again.
* **Find a definition…** jumps to any item by name.

## The director [#the-director]

The bar at the bottom of the canvas (**The Director**) takes a request in plain words, such as "add a reviewer to the research template" or "split this prompt in two". The director lays out its plan on the right and then makes the changes in front of you: the camera follows each edit, and the canvas stays locked until it is done. **New chat** starts a fresh conversation; earlier ones stay under **Atlas Sessions** in All runs. See [All runs (developer view)](../settings/all-runs).

The director is a run of the built-in `atlas` working-group template, which every Space carries. You do not have to open Atlas to use it: ask the main assistant for a new template or role, and it may make the change itself or give the work to the **Definitions studio**, an `atlas` working group. See [The main assistant](../main-assistant).

## Changes stay safe [#changes-stay-safe]

The director changes the Space in one batch. It checks the whole Space before writing anything, and if the batch would break a reference, or the Space changed in the meantime, nothing is written. Every change it makes is recorded in **Settings › Data and undo › Action log**, where you can undo it. See [Action log, undo and stopping](../action-log).

Atlas can show the official Space, but changes need a Space of your own: in the read-only official Space, the director's edits are refused. See [Definition Spaces](./definition-spaces).

Source: https://the-zeroth.com/en/docs/the-one-app/capabilities/atlas