Use when an agent needs recent or historical change context: what changed recently, regressions, merged PRs, tickets, docs, incidents, deployments, releases, and source-history ingestion.
Use when the task is centered on running, explaining, configuring, or troubleshooting the `potpie` command: doctor, login, pot management, source registration, search, graph workbench reads/writes, and pot scope behavior.
Use while debugging or troubleshooting failures, flaky tests, incidents, production alerts, CI failures, local dev setup issues, repeated bugs, prior fixes, failed attempts, and verification history.
Use when the task can read or write the project-memory graph through the potpie CLI: discover the contract with `graph catalog`, read named views with `graph read`, resolve entity identity with `graph search-entities`, create validated plans with `graph propose`, commit plans with `graph commit --verify`, inspect quality with `graph quality`, or capture uncertain work with `graph inbox`. Also covers writing retrieval-grade descriptions and responding to nudges. Prefer this over the MCP context_* tools whenever the shell is available.
Use for project infra and architecture context: environments, adapters, runtime configuration, deployments, service dependencies, datastores, API contracts, ownership, incidents, and dependency blast radius.
Use before writing, modifying, reviewing, refactoring, or testing code so repo/project preferences surface: error handling, file structure, frameworks, logging, dependency choices, testing, security, API style, and naming. Also use after code work when a reusable project preference should be recorded.
Use when establishing, refreshing, or deeply understanding a repository's baseline memory in Potpie: purpose, application type, features, services/modules, environments, deploy shape, dependencies, API contracts, datastores, integrations, ownership, and explicit preferences. The harness reads authored and code-adjacent sources, then writes graph workbench mutations.
Use when the user explicitly asks to ingest, refresh, or deeply understand a repository, PR, issue, ticket, runbook, incident report, document, or web link into Potpie. The harness performs todo-driven discovery, uses local/GitHub/integration tools and read-only subagents when available, builds evidence-backed semantic mutations, and writes through graph propose/verified commit.