Workspace Overview
Navigating the central Avylo Architecture Workspace, interactive canvas, properties inspector, and history timeline.
Workspace Overview
The Architecture Workspace is the core operational cockpit in Avylo. It provides a persistent, real-time environment where you inspect your architecture model, collaborate with the AI Architect, and manage architectural evolution.
Architecture Workspace Overview
Main interface showing the visual architecture canvas, AI Architect panel, properties inspector, and activity timeline.
Workspace Layout & Key Surfaces
The workspace is organized into four integrated surfaces:
1. The Interactive Architecture Canvas (Center)
The visual representation of your Canonical Architecture Model.
- Node Graph: Displays services, databases, queues, storage, and external providers with distinct visual cues.
- Domain Boundaries: Visually clusters components by business domain.
- Connection Lines: Represents network protocols, data flows, and dependencies.
- Interactive Controls: Pan, zoom, fit to screen, and filter views by domain or component type.
2. The AI Architect & Decisions Panel (Left / Drawer)
The reasoning interface where the AI Architect presents:
- Active Recommendations: Upcoming architecture decisions or optimizations.
- Open Decisions: Architectural forks awaiting your review.
- Assumptions: Pending AI inferences you can accept or customize.
- Proposals & Change Sets: Previews of proposed structural adjustments.
3. Properties & Traceability Inspector (Right)
When you select any component, decision, or capability:
- Details: Name, type, technology recommendation, and description.
- Traceability Linkages: Explicit connections showing which requirements and capabilities this component fulfills.
- Related Decisions: The exact Architecture Decisions that created or modified this component.
- Health Indicators: Specific health and confidence metrics for this node.
4. Activity Timeline (Bottom / Drawer)
A human-readable, chronological record of every architecture mutation:
- Decision approvals.
- Change Set applications.
- Project Knowledge updates.
- Milestone snapshots.
Replacing Ephemeral Chat
Unlike chatbot interfaces where crucial reasoning is lost in a long scrollable chat transcript, Avylo records all architectural history in the structured Activity Timeline attached directly to your project.
Understanding Architecture V1
What your generated Architecture V1 represents and how it establishes the foundation for your ongoing system evolution.
Working with the AI Architect
How the AI Architect reasons about your system, evaluates trade-offs, and proposes changes while preserving creator authority.