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Coding presence for remote teams
This describes something AtoAxis is building, not something you can use today: a live room showing teammates who are actually coding, with avatars that can start a shared working session.
The problem
Remote teams lose the ambient awareness an office gives you. Chat presence only says an app is open; it does not say whether someone is in flow or whether this is a good time to interrupt.
Presence you cannot fake
AtoAxis already receives editor heartbeats while you work. That same signal can answer whether someone is writing code without anyone setting a manual status.
A chat status reflects an open window. This reflects work.
How presence will work
Sub-teams
An organisation will divide seats into smaller working groups, each with its own room.
Dragging avatars together
Dragging two avatars together will start a recorded co-working session with duration and participants in both histories.
What this will not be
Presence and surveillance are separated by design:
- Everyone who can see the room appears in it, including owners and admins
- Only working, idle or offline is shown, never file paths, projects or branches
- Presence is opt-in and leaving a room does not leave the organisation
- Presence changes nothing about heartbeat storage
A room where everyone is equally visible feels like working together; an observer view is monitoring software.
What you can use today
Individual tracking works today: coding time by project, language, branch and editor, keystroke and character counts, and complete history.
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Team presence FAQ
- Can I use team features in AtoAxis today?
- No. Team presence, sub-teams and co-working sessions are in development. AtoAxis today is a single-account product.
- What is coding presence?
- A live avatar view derived from editor heartbeats rather than a manually selected status.
- Will managers watch developers?
- No. Presence is mutual and shows activity state only, never file paths, projects or branches.
- How does it differ from chat tools?
- It is derived from editor activity and is intended as an ambient team signal, not a chat product.
- What does dragging avatars do?
- It records a co-working session with its duration and participants.
- When is it available?
- There is no committed date; organisation and team support must land first.