Screens, at the time of writing
Detail, 2026
DAY ONE
Atelier Studio is a starter kit for anyone in the Accounts Org about to build something. Clone it once, and every project you start after that begins from the same foundation: the design system, the house style and the review process already in place.
Whether it is a quick internal tool, a demo for an account or something you expect to hand to someone else, you start from a working setup rather than an empty folder and a list of decisions nobody has time to make.
In the field, 2026
WHAT COMES WITH IT
You also get the parts of a project that normally get invented under pressure. A rule for which documents get designed and which stay markdown, a review ladder that runs as commands instead of living in one person’s head, and an optional WordPress overlay when the project needs one.
The design system arrives by sync from the Atelier plugin, and a test fails the build the moment anyone hand-edits the copy. You get the current system rather than a snapshot of whatever it looked like on the day you started.
Scaffolding stops at the working tree. It makes no commit and it never pushes, so the first thing to reach a remote is always something you chose to send.
Atelier Studio lives at github.a8c.com/jamesgiroux/atelier-studio. Clone it, then run node bin/atelier-init.mjs ~/path/to/new-project --name "My Project", adding --wordpress if you want the theme overlay.
It expects the Atelier, superpowers and compound-engineering plugins to be installed rather than copied in, so the skills you get are the ones being maintained.