# Golden Thread overview

> Interactive graph of every link from feedback through to outcomes, walk upstream or downstream from any node.

Source: https://productos.ca/documentation/pages/overview/golden-thread (last reviewed 2026-09-29)

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](https://productos.ca/documentation/guides/concepts/golden-thread)
- [MCP `get_golden_thread`](https://productos.ca/documentation/api/v1/mcp): walk the graph from inside Claude Code