Model graph: decision and registry links on by default, placed near their elements
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- **Registry view.** A `.archify-registry` file opens as its elements, as cards. Click one and a dialog shows its description, where it is defined and the diagrams that use it; click a diagram to open it. **Show Source** opens the YAML beside it.
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- **Elements and Connectors.** Under every diagram, Archify's node index is titled **Elements**, and a **Connectors** panel next to it lists every connection as "from → to" with its label. Hovering highlights the connector in the diagram; clicking keeps it highlighted and scrolls to it.
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- **Starting one.** *Archify | New Model…* (right-click a folder) copies one of the shipped examples into a new folder, named as you choose: **C4 - Standard Web App** (single-page app, API, database, cache, storage, identity provider), **C4 - E-Shop** (web shop, API, worker, queue, payment and email providers) or **C4 - Event-Based Integration** (event bus, router, dead-letter queue, event store, consumers). Each has a registry and context, container and component diagrams. For an empty model, *Archify | New Diagram… → Model* creates just a `main.archify`.
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- **The graph.** The **Model | Graph** switch at the top of the `main.archify` page (next to **Export** when the file has a diagram) replaces the page with the whole model as one graph: every element any diagram draws plus every registry element, every connection between them, each once. Registry elements have a solid border, inline ones a dashed border; colours are Archify's type colours and the legend chips at the bottom hide or show a type. **Decisions** are nodes too (tags coloured by status, dotted links to the elements they are about, dashed links to what they supersede), and so are **registries** (one node per file, dotted links to the elements it defines); their chips hide them when the picture gets busy. The layout is **Layered** by default, like Archify's stack: clients on the left, data on the right, registries in a row above, decisions in a row below, connections drawn orthogonally; click the button for a **Force** layout instead. Drag nodes, scroll to zoom, **Fit** (or <kbd>0</kbd>) frames what matches, **Labels** toggles connection labels, **Links** shows every decision and registry link (otherwise only the selected element's links show; hovering an element lights up its connections), the sun/moon button switches the page between its dark and light theme (remembered, shared with the diagram pages' theme choice), **Export PNG** saves the picture. On a diagram page the switch reads **Diagram | Graph** and opens the graph already narrowed to that diagram. *Archify | Open Model Graph* does the same from the Command Palette or Explorer.
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- **The graph.** The **Model | Graph** switch at the top of the `main.archify` page (next to **Export** when the file has a diagram) replaces the page with the whole model as one graph: every element any diagram draws plus every registry element, every connection between them, each once. Registry elements have a solid border, inline ones a dashed border; colours are Archify's type colours and the legend chips at the bottom hide or show a type. **Decisions** are nodes too (tags coloured by status, dotted links to the elements they are about, dashed links to what they supersede), and so are **registries** (one node per file, dotted links to the elements it defines); their chips hide them when the picture gets busy. The layout is **Layered** by default, like Archify's stack: clients on the left, data on the right, registries in a row above, decisions in a row below, connections drawn orthogonally; click the button for a **Force** layout instead. Drag nodes, scroll to zoom, **Fit** (or <kbd>0</kbd>) frames what matches, **Labels** toggles connection labels, the dotted **Links** from decisions and registries to their elements are on by default and can be switched off, in which case only the selected element's show (hovering an element lights up its connections), the sun/moon button switches the page between its dark and light theme (remembered, shared with the diagram pages' theme choice), **Export PNG** saves the picture. On a diagram page the switch reads **Diagram | Graph** and opens the graph already narrowed to that diagram. *Archify | Open Model Graph* does the same from the Command Palette or Explorer.
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- **Queries.** Type a few words in the box (<kbd>/</kbd> focuses it); matches stay bright, the rest dims, the count shows "9 of 14 elements". Terms combine with AND and a leading `-` excludes: `database` (id, label, sublabel, brand or type contain it), `type:backend`, `diagram:0200-*` (what those diagrams draw), `decision:<id>` (what a decision is about or is attached to), `uses:api` (an element and its neighbours), `near:api,2` (within two steps), `from:web to:db` (the shortest path, following the arrows first), `unused` (registry elements no diagram draws), `shared` and `-shared` (registry or inline elements only), `type:decision` and `type:registry` for the decision and registry nodes. Decisions and registries follow the elements they are attached to into a result; `-type:decision` or `-type:registry` leaves them out. Walks and paths follow the diagrams' connections only, so a registry is never a shortcut between its elements. The **?** button lists them; clicking an example runs it.
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- **Side panel.** Click an element for its description, type, where it is defined (**Registry** opens the file at the line), the diagrams that draw it (click to open), its connections and its decisions (click to open). **Neighbours** runs `uses:` for it. Click a connection for its labels, the diagrams that draw it and its decisions. Click a decision node for its status, context and decision text, the elements and connections it is about, and **Open decision**; a registry node for the elements it defines, the ones no diagram draws yet, and **Open registry**.
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- **Commands.** *Archify | Open Model* opens the model page of the current file, from the editor title, the Command Palette or the Explorer menu of a `.archify` or `.archify-registry` file; *Archify | Open Model Graph* opens the graph.
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