developeratlas5/developeratlas-public

Developer Atlas is a tool built for people working with AI coding assistants on Laravel and Vue projects, aimed at keeping the human in control of what the AI changes. The core idea is that AI can produce code faster than a person can review and remember it, so this project builds a loop around every change: you scope what the AI is allowed to touch, the tool helps you understand the resulting change, you review real evidence of whether it works, and only then do you accept, revise, or reject it. Before an AI even starts a task, you declare which files it may edit, what behavior must stay protected, and what counts as done. A component called Navigator connects the routes, controllers, views, and dependencies of a Laravel project so a reviewer can trace a change through the codebase instead of just trusting a diff. Another piece, called Control, keeps track of the change request and the evidence supplied for it, while making sure the AI itself cannot claim a test passed when it was never actually run. A third piece, Compendium, is a reference library of programming concepts meant to help less experienced developers understand unfamiliar code they encounter along the way. The project is described as a public preview and internal alpha: the underlying software has been tested internally, but broader usability and real paid demand are still unproven. Right now what's actually available to try includes a browser based Control Lite generator, a guided walkthrough using a static Laravel example, and some curated example content. The full Navigator extension for VS Code is currently limited to testers, and a hosted version of the Compendium reference library is not yet available. The project emphasizes privacy: it works locally by default, has no telemetry in this preview, requires no account or payment to try, and never runs verification commands or makes acceptance decisions on its own without a human confirming them.