navigator

name	navigator
description	Route DaxAlgo Terminal work to the correct Windows or Linux project, context shard, and specialist skill. Use first for codebase orientation, ownership questions, locating a feature, choosing a build target, or deciding whether a change belongs in Core, Pipeline, Shell, UI, AI, Charts, Tools, SDK, templates, or an external strategy plugin.

Navigator

Route before reading source. Load .claude/context/index.md, symbols.md, and deps.json, then grep the matching generated shard. For Linux/Avalonia work, use .claude/context/linux/; Windows and Linux are independent trees and matching type names are not evidence of matching behavior.

Windows routes

Area	Path	Owns
Domain and seams	src/windows/Core/TradingTerminal.Core/	Domain records, contracts, options, quant, research, strategy and backtest seams
Broker and service implementations	src/windows/Pipeline/TradingTerminal.Infrastructure/	Brokers, notifications, research runners, composition below shells
Canonical market data	src/windows/Pipeline/TradingTerminal.MarketData/	Hub, ingest, repository, stores, discovery, archive
Edition shells	src/windows/Shell/TradingTerminal.App.Basic/, TradingTerminal.App.Intermediate/	Composition roots, menus, window hosting
Login	src/windows/Shell/TradingTerminal.Login/	Credentialed login forms and broker selection
Shared Windows UI	src/windows/Shell/TradingTerminal.UI/, src/windows/UI/TradingTerminal.UI.Core/	Themes, shell UI and reusable strategy-window support
Settings and authoring	src/windows/UI/TradingTerminal.Settings/, TradingTerminal.StrategyComposer/	Settings and strategy-composer UI
AI seam	src/windows/AI/TradingTerminal.Ai/	AI analyst clients/enricher only; no Windows AI tool-window projects
Charts	src/windows/Charts/	Charts, heatmap, order book and volume footprint
Tools	src/windows/Tools/	Backtest surfaces, recording, correlation, regimes, Codegen and StrategyTool
Backtest engine	src/windows/Backtest/TradingTerminal.Backtest.Engine/	Event replay, kernels, optimization and reports
Plugin SDK	src/windows/Sdk/, templates/, samples/	Public plugin contracts, canonical template and minimal sample

First-party Windows strategies are not projects in this repository. They are external runtime plugins. Flat pre-grouped Windows paths and in-tree Windows strategy-project paths are stale.

Dependency direction

Keep Core dependency-free. Keep MarketData below Infrastructure. Broker SDK types stay in Infrastructure. Shells compose factories and selectors; view-models consume broker-neutral seams. Tool and chart projects do not reference sibling tools. Strategy plugins reference only the published DaxAlgo.Sdk or DaxAlgo.Sdk.Wpf package, never host projects.

Route by task

• Add a broker: load add-broker and broker-gotchas.
• Change market-data flow or storage: load market-data-pipeline; add archive-offloader for archive work.
• Author a strategy: load add-strategy; create an external SDK plugin, not an in-tree strategy project.
• Change backtesting: load backtest-engine and quant-math as needed.
• Work on research reproduction: load paper-reproduction, paper-ingestion, and untrusted-execution. The Windows backend is under Core/Pipeline Research; PaperLab UI is Linux-only.
• Change WPF lifetime or binding behavior: load wpf-mvvm-rules and memory-safety.
• Change architecture or boundaries: load software-architecture.

Build routing

• Windows edition-local: TradingTerminal.Windows.Basic.slnf or TradingTerminal.Windows.Intermediate.slnf.
• Windows shared signature/cross-edition: TradingTerminal.Windows.slnx.
• Linux only when explicitly in scope: TradingTerminal.Linux.slnx.
• External strategy plugin: build and test its scaffold solution, then run its pack-plugin.ps1.

Open source only after the context shard identifies the symbol and line. Never infer one tree's implementation from the other.