Explorer

The Explorer turns the objects and associations in your workspace into an interactive graph. It is the fastest way to see how systems connect, trace dependencies, and understand the shape of your landscape. You will find Explorer in the left sidebar.

Explorer has three views, each on its own tab: Workspace, Object, and Context.

Workspace Explorer

Workspace Explorer renders the entire active workspace as a force-directed graph. Nodes are objects; edges are associations.

• Grouping by source activity: Nodes are clustered into labelled hulls by the workstream or connector run that produced them, so you can see at a glance where each part of the model came from.
• Filters: Narrow the graph by Category, Type, Source, and Source Activity.
• Global objects: Toggle Show Global Objects to include or hide objects shared across workspaces. Global objects are highlighted with a gold border.
• Link labels: Show or hide the association labels on each edge.
• Node detail: Click any node to open its detail modal with the object’s metadata, source, and associations.

Object Explorer

Object Explorer focuses on a single object and its immediate neighbourhood. Select an object and the graph shows that object plus everything directly associated with it.

Use it to answer focused questions such as “what depends on this service?” or “what does this capability touch?” without the noise of the full workspace graph. Link labels and global-object highlighting work the same way as in Workspace Explorer.

Context

The Context view renders the full picture an AI sees when it reasons about your workspace: the objects (coloured by metamodel category), the Reference Library guidance that governs them as distinct nodes, and the rationale on each relationship.

• Guidance by approval state: Reference Library nodes are coloured by whether the guidance is endorsed (dark) or still a draft (grey), so you can see what is actually governing the model.
• Focus: Pick an object to collapse the graph down to its neighbourhood.
• Filter by source activity: Narrow to the objects produced by a given workstream or connector run.
• Toggle the guidance layer: Show or hide the Reference Library nodes to switch between a pure object graph and the full governed context.

Use Context to sanity-check what grounding a workstream will draw on before you run it.

When to Use Explorer

• Impact analysis: Follow associations to see what a change would affect.
• Onboarding: Get a visual orientation of an unfamiliar workspace.
• Validation: Spot orphaned objects, missing links, or unexpected dependencies after a workstream or connector run.

For static, stakeholder-ready viewpoints (capability models, technology portfolios, application landscapes), see Reporting.