Twg Context Discovery

twg-context-discovery

Use together with the root twg skill. Exact command grammar must come from live twg help, twg help <terms>, or twg help describe <path>.

Use When

• "Catch me up on..."
• "Deep context around this workitem/page/topic"
• "Dependency map" or "find upstream/downstream blockers"
• "Which repo should I change?"
• "Which people/repos/projects are related?"
• "Draw the graph" / "visualize" / "open the graph"
• "Who's involved" / "experts on X"

First Move

Resolve the anchor before widening:

• Stable key, URL, or ARI: use it directly when the command family is clear.
• Fuzzy topic or name: use resolve/search once, then select concrete anchors.
• Multiple same-kind anchors: batch them in one context call when supported so

edges return together.

• Unknown command shape: inspect one focused help contract before calling data.

If a context command is not advertised for an anchor type, treat that as a coverage gap. Use product-native hydration and search evidence instead of inventing unsupported command paths.

Route Selection

• Known Jira work items usually need native workitem details plus relationship

context.

• Projects and goals usually need native project/goal details plus selected

Jira, Confluence/docs, search, PR, and meeting evidence.

• Pages/topics/dependency prompts need hydrated central anchors before broad

search results become evidence.

• Raw graph-query/debugging surfaces are not the default dependency-map route.

Use them only when the user explicitly asks for that query language or typed commands cannot express the required edge.

Evidence Policy

For every central candidate, run source fetch and relationship context as one bounded fan-out:

• Source fetch: fields, owner, status, body, comments, and URLs.
• Context: graph edges, formal external links, related people, teams, projects,

goals, docs, PRs, commits, and branches.

Use summary detail first. Escalate to full only for the central anchor or up to 3 high-signal related anchors when URLs, comments, body content, or provenance are missing.

Read output_files.stdout before selecting entities for graph/context answers; stdout_shape is only a structural sample and can miss relationship tails.

Third-party URLs are first-class graph nodes. Collect URLs from remote links, formal context external edges, descriptions, comments, ADF link marks, bare URL text, and linked target bodies. Track provenance because it determines relationship direction.

Expansion Rules

• Expand by relationship role, not raw count.
• Hydrate parent, epic, inbound peer, blocker, consumer, central page, external

design, PR, commit, branch, assignee, reporter, contributor, and reviewer signals when they change direction, risk, ownership, or next action.

• Fetch known older links directly by URL, key, ID, or ARI instead of widening

the whole graph blindly.

• Use strong query variants rather than many synonyms.
• Stop when the next candidate would not add new entities, links, contributors,

teams, decisions, ownership, risk, or next action.

Graph Visualization

When the user asks to visualize, draw, or open a graph, prefer piping typed context output to twg visualize. The viewer can auto-detect context envelopes and project them to graph shape. Hand-author graph JSON only when typed projection cannot express the needed labels or merged multi-anchor graph.

Keep rendered graphs focused on directly relevant people, teams, and artifacts. Collapse duplicate signals and keep peripheral items out of the graph when they do not change direction, ownership, risk, or next action.

Output Shape

• Anchor snapshot: what it is and why it matters.
• Relationship table: entity, type, direction, owner, importance, and evidence.
• Risks and dependencies, separating confirmed edges from inferred relationships.
• Suggested next actions.
• Confidence and gaps when evidence is incomplete, access-limited, stale, or

sampled.

Anti-Patterns

• Do not stop at search results without hydrating anchors.
• Do not treat stdout_shape as a complete entity or URL inventory.
• Do not skip peer expansion for graph/dependency prompts because peers look

"Done".

• Do not dismiss a 1-hop candidate by title alone.
• Do not hand-roll graph HTML.