Research Index

Research notes live here: architectural explorations, performance investigations, ingestion studies, and other spikes. Subfolders organize topics (e.g., architecture/, performance-tools/, vendor/parts research).

Use these documents to capture findings and recommendations before committing to a design. When a direction is chosen, link the relevant feature or issue page so downstream work inherits the context.

Highlighted research notes

• Architecture explorations: Caching and incremental builds, configuration-layer unification, renderer plugin registry
• Pipeline and validation: Pipeline context refactor, validation contract layer
• Performance tooling: Performance tooling platform
• Mechanical and diagram studies: Mechanical harness diagrams, mechanical diagram elements
• Parts ingestion: Vendor parts ingestion, vendor parts integration, parts databases