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Workspace Structure Visualisation

Use Case

Changed on:

31 Mar 2026

Problem

Potential Problems:
  • No quick way to orient in a complex workspace: After multiple sessions of scaffolding, deploying, and analysing, the workspace accumulates many files and directories that are difficult to navigate without a structured overview.
  • Wasted time reconstructing context at the start of a session: Returning to a workspace after time away often means spending the first several minutes figuring out what exists and where things stand before any productive work can begin.
  • Uncertainty about what has actually been generated: After running multiple tools across a session, it is not always obvious which reports, analyses, and source files have been produced and are available to reference or build on.
  • Difficulty communicating workspace scope to new team members: Onboarding someone to a complex workspace is harder without a single, annotated view that shows what has been built, where it lives, and what state each feature is in.
  • No visibility into version and scale of deployed assets: Knowing that a module exists is one thing; knowing it contains 97 rules at version 1.4.0 versus 3 rules at version 1.0.0 is the kind of detail that matters when planning changes or estimating effort.
You want to see what's in the workspace — features, workflows, source code, reports — with counts and annotations.

Solution Overview

Getting a clear picture of the workspace begins with a single request that produces an annotated directory listing of everything the workspace contains. Rather than navigating through folders manually, the tool renders the full structure in one view, with counts and annotations added to each item so the content is immediately meaningful rather than just a list of file names.The output covers every significant area of the workspace: source modules with their rule counts and version numbers, downloaded workflows with ruleset counts, features with their current lifecycle status and plan revision, generated reports with their dates, and any analysis outputs that have been produced. Each section is presented in context so the relationship between different parts of the workspace is clear at a glance.This view is entirely read-only and requires no planning or approval steps, making it suitable to run at any point without any concern about affecting the environment. It is particularly useful at the start of a session as a fast orientation step, after a period of intensive work to take stock of what has been generated, or when bringing a new team member up to speed on the current state of the implementation.The result is a shared, accurate reference point for the workspace that replaces the need to piece together context from memory or by manually browsing the directory structure.

Solution