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 ## [Unreleased]
 
+### Added
+- **The Atlas can be driven by agents** (D-226, T-971) — a named-intent control channel (AtlasAgentInterface) lets automated QA agents navigate the real Atlas UI through the exact same handlers a click calls: open/select/descend, jump straight to any world coordinate at any zoom step, toggle overlays, and read back a summary of what's on screen — turning the hand-scripted verification drives into a first-class, repeatable QA capability. In-process consumers only for now; a shipped reference driver replaces the ad-hoc scripts
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 ### Changed
 - **Rivers read like rivers** (T-1175) — map courses now taper to a point at their upstream source instead of starting at full width (the classic cartographic river grammar), and the stream/tributary/trunk width ladder was retuned so a tributary joining a trunk visibly reads as a join. Part of the map-fluency polish pass benchmarked against the best-in-class world maps
 - **Rivers and mountain ranges now have names behind the map** (T-1169) — every body's rivers and peaks are assigned names from the curated per-system pools (17,891 names across the Reach) during world generation, queryable over the wire. The labels that will draw them on the Atlas come in a follow-up; the naming layer underneath is live