AI proposes, you approve
The agent works on a draft and shows a preview — your live site changes only when you press Publish.
Atelier's defining stance is simple: the agent proposes, and you approve. Nothing reaches your live site until you say so.
This is architectural, not a setting you can switch off. The agent never changes your live site on its own. It works on an unsaved draft and shows you a live preview — and your site changes only when you press Publish.
The guarantee: the agent only ever edits an unsaved draft and shows a live preview. Your live site changes solely when you click Publish. The agent cannot publish for you.
Two mechanisms enforce this.
Drafts and Publish
In the Design System and Pages studios, the agent only edits a draft.
The agent proposes
You describe a change; the agent updates the draft and renders a live preview.
You review
Look over the preview until it's right — keep refining with the agent as needed.
You decide
Press Publish to make it live, or Discard to throw the draft away. Discard asks you to confirm, so you can't wipe work by accident.
Generated images: saved, but still yours to decide
One thing works a little differently. When you generate or edit an image, it's saved to your Library right away — because generation costs real money and Atelier won't discard what you paid to create. That's a private Library item, not a change to your live site: it reaches visitors only when you place it on a page and Publish. And it's still your call — every image is a new item, nothing is overwritten, and you can Delete it. See generating & editing images.
Approval pauses
When a conversation reaches a step that would change your site, it pauses and asks you to approve before continuing.
You approve, and only then does the step run — exactly once. Nothing happens behind your back, and nothing runs twice.
Why it matters
You get the speed of an agent with the control of a human editor. The agent does the heavy lifting; you stay the one who decides what goes live.