Golden Thread overview

The Golden Thread page is the visual graph of your entity relationships, every feedback ↔ theme ↔ feature ↔ initiative ↔ release ↔ outcome link, in one canvas.

What you'll see

• Six columns: feedback, themes, features, initiatives, releases, outcomes, with connection lines drawn between linked rows.
• Hover to trace: hovering a card highlights the thread it belongs to, upstream and downstream, and dims everything else.
• There is no search bar or filter panel on the canvas; use the global command palette (⌘K / Ctrl+K) to find a specific row by sequence ID or title.

Common actions

• Click any card → opens the entity in its detail dialog
• Linking happens from the entity's own drawer (or the row context menu on its list page); the canvas itself is read-only

When to use it

• Reviewing strategy completeness: does every initiative have feedback upstream?
• Investigating an outcome: what feedback contributed to this release's outcome?
• Cleanup: find features with no upstream (built because someone said so), or feedback with no downstream (un-themed for >30 days).

Data flow

Read-only graph composed from the entity rows and the junction tables that connect them:

• theme_feedback: themes ↔ feedback
• theme_features: themes ↔ features
• feedback_features: feedback ↔ features (direct, when a single voice maps to a single feature)
• feature_initiatives: features ↔ initiatives
• release_initiatives: initiatives ↔ releases
• release_features: releases ↔ features (direct)
• outcome_features: outcomes ↔ features (direct, when a feature is named as moving an outcome)
• outcomes also hang off their initiative through outcomes.initiative_id, so a release shows the outcomes of the initiatives it ships

Data loads when the page opens; reload to pick up changes made elsewhere.

Related

• The Golden Thread concept
• MCP get_golden_thread: walk the graph from inside Claude Code