The agent is not built into ATAS and does not see your screen. It talks to the platform through AI Connect, an MCP server on your computer: it asks for data or an action, ATAS carries it out and returns the result. Below you can see who talks to whom and where your data ends up.
What happens when you write a task
- You write a task in the agent app, for example "Mark the previous day's high and low on BTCUSDT".
- The app sends the conversation to the AI model at your provider. The model decides which ATAS functions it needs: read bars, find a chart, draw a line.
- The agent app calls these functions on the ATAS MCP server. The server runs inside the platform and accepts connections only from your computer, with your token.
- ATAS runs the function itself: it takes bars from your connections, draws a line on the chart, sets an alert. Market data comes into the platform from your broker, exchange or data vendor, the same as without the agent. ATAS gives the agent bars, indicator values and chart screenshots for crypto. For futures and stocks the agent works with settings, indicators and the journal.
- The result goes back to the agent app, is sent to the model along with the conversation, and you get an answer with numbers.
What MCP is
MCP (Model Context Protocol) is an open standard that AI apps use to connect to other programs. A program publishes a list of functions with descriptions, and the agent reads this list and picks what to call by itself. In ATAS these are functions for reading the workspace, charts, bars and the journal, for changing charts and indicators, and for scripts and settings. That is why the same task works in any app that can connect MCP servers.
Where things are processed
| Where | What happens there |
|---|---|
| ATAS on your computer | Runs the functions: reads chart and journal data, changes charts, compiles scripts. Checks the permissions from the Access tab |
| The agent app on your computer | Stores the conversation, calls ATAS functions, shows the answer |
| The AI provider | The model reads the conversation, including everything the agent read from ATAS, and writes the answer |
| The ATAS company | Sees only which functions were called and whether they succeeded, without arguments and without market data |
This leads to the main rule: everything the agent reads in ATAS goes to your AI provider. You choose what the agent is allowed to do on the Access tab; details are in Security and data.