Use cases

Questions a long-lived product raises.

Pick a task your team repeats often, such as reviewing a change or explaining behavior in an older release.

01 · Architecture & engineering

Work out what a change could affect.

Trace recorded dependencies, decisions and business rules across modules. Bring the evidence and coverage gaps into a change review.

Implicit dependencies and missing records remain outside the analysis. Engineering review and tests still determine whether a change is safe.

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The question

"Can we retire this exception without changing a contractual behavior?"

  1. Identify the affected module and intended change.
  2. Follow recorded dependencies and linked decisions.
  3. Prepare a review brief with evidence, open questions and checks.
What your team gets

A change brief your reviewers can inspect.

02 · Engineering & onboarding

Recover the reason behind the code.

Follow commits, tickets and decisions back to the constraints that shaped the implementation. Give the next engineer a starting point they can verify.

When no record explains the original decision, the answer needs to say so. Some historical questions will remain unanswered.

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The question

"Why does this service still have two paths for the same calculation?"

  1. Locate the behavior in the current code.
  2. Connect its history to the recorded decision.
  3. Separate confirmed rationale from unresolved gaps.
What your team gets

A cited explanation and a route back to the source.

03 · Product support & maintenance

Put the answer in the customer’s context.

Compare relevant records and investigate release or deployment differences. Establish which evidence applies before giving an answer to a customer.

Deployment-specific answers require mapped and current deployment data. The supported scope is agreed during integration.

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The question

"Why does the same operation behave differently in these two releases?"

  1. Identify the release, components and configuration in scope.
  2. Inspect changes and the records that explain them.
  3. Prepare an answer with applicable scope and missing context.
What your team gets

An explanation tied to the available release record.

04 · Onboarding & code review

Find who knows this part of the code.

Muninark links commits to their authors and works out, on every scheduled run, who has worked on which modules. When the record runs out, the answer can name the people to ask.

Commits without an author email are not linked, and authorship is not the same as current knowledge. Treat the names as a starting point.

The question

"Who has worked on this module, and who should review the change?"

  1. Locate the module or behavior in question.
  2. Read who authored and changed it, and how recently.
  3. Suggest reviewers and people to consult, ranked by their recorded work.
What your team gets

Named people, ranked by the recorded work that connects them to the code.

Which part of your product takes too long to explain?

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