Atlarix 15.16: Your AI Coding Agent Can Make Images Now

A new image tool makes a picture from a description, or edits one from your project. It works in every mode, on Atlarix Core credit or with your own key for an image model.

The image shows in the chat as a card, and the file is saved under .atlarix/images/, in a folder for each chat. The picture on the card is for you: it is never sent back to the model. A few rules keep it safe:

• Images to edit come only from your workspace.
• When the image model refuses a request for safety, the agent stops instead of trying again with other words.
• A model that can't view images is told the image was made, rather than asked to attach it again.

A paid chat now starts whenever a little credit is left, and it finishes the call it started. That call may take the balance slightly below zero; your next top-up covers the difference. You no longer lose the last few cents to a chat that refused to start.

When the balance is used up, Atlarix says so in one line and asks you to top up. Paid Atlarix Auto on a short balance still moves on to the next model, as before. Plans and credit are on the pricing page.

Atlarix keeps notes for each project. In 15.16 that memory works like a ledger. The model gets the index, MEMORY.md, once per session and again after the conversation is compacted. It opens the notes it decides it needs, by their full path, and it keeps the index up to date when it adds, changes or removes a note.

The recall that used to run on every message is gone, along with its hints and change notices. The model decides what to read, and nothing is pushed into the chat for it.

Atlarix Auto and Atlarix Zenith can now use computer use, in the desktop app and the CLI. Computer use lets the agent see your screen and use the mouse and keyboard to finish a task.

Zenith now takes pasted images, PDFs and screenshots from tools. Its context window is the smallest of the models it can answer with, which is 1M today. If a model added to Zenith later can't do one of these things, Zenith turns that feature off by itself.

In the terminal and the editors, Auto takes a pasted image. And atlarix run without --model now uses the model you chose in the CLI. With a Core token it uses your Core choice, or Auto. When there is no model to use, it asks you for one.

Sub-agents are helpers the main agent starts to work on parts of a task in parallel. They can now call MCP tools that only read, so a helper can look something up in a connected service while it explores. Your rules apply to sub-agents too. How they work is in the sub-agents guide.

The app, the CLI, the editors and the website now read your plan, balance and connections from one account endpoint, instead of several separate calls. They refresh it right after a checkout and when the window comes back into focus, so a top-up shows at once.

Sign-in for the desktop app, the CLI and VS Code now starts on www.atlarix.dev/auth/app, with Google, GitHub or Discord. The page stays open after the hand-off and offers to open Atlarix again if your browser asked first. In VS Code, the "Didn't see the sign-in page?" offer goes away when the sign-in ends.

15.16 removes code that was no longer earning its place:

• The self-hosted SearxNG search option is gone.
• So are the dev-server manager, dozens of unused internal methods and several unused dependencies.
• The prompt is shorter: the step-by-step "How to work" guide is back in Review mode only, and the reminder repeated on every turn is gone.

• In a workspace opened with atlarix <dir>, a mode you pick before the first message now applies to that chat.
• A model picked in a brand-new chat stays on that chat.
• A tool card shows its result as soon as it arrives, not only after a reload.
• Saved automations run when Atlarix is open only in an editor, such as VS Code or Zed.
• Mind maps show formulas properly, where they used to show the raw TeX.
• /undo and resend drops the notes of the turn it replaced.
• Chat titles name the model family that wrote them.
• The app's crash reports leave out your home folder and email address, as the CLI's already did.

The desktop app and the CLI update themselves to 15.16 (a Linux .deb or .rpm takes the new package from the downloads page). To install fresh:

• Desktop app: download it for macOS, Windows or Linux from atlarix.dev.
• CLI on macOS or Linux: curl -fsSL https://atlarix.dev/install | sh
• CLI on Windows (PowerShell): irm https://atlarix.dev/install.ps1 | iex
• CLI with npm: npm install -g atlarix
• VS Code, Cursor, Kiro or Windsurf: search for "Atlarix" in the VS Code Marketplace or on Open VSX. Details are on the extension page.

The app, the CLI and the editor extension share one account, so a chat started in one is there in the others. New to Atlarix? Start with Getting started.