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Setup walkthroughs, workflow guides, and reference material. Search or filter by category to find what you need.

Getting started

Quickstart: your first project

Spin up a workspace, create a project, import requirements, and see the trace canvas fill in — under 10 minutes.

Getting started

Inviting your team

Roles, project membership, and how viewer/member/admin permissions work.

Requirements

Requirements: types, statuses, versions

Understand RequirementType, the DRAFT → APPROVED lifecycle, version snapshots, and how change requests route.

Requirements

Linking requirements to specifications

Create typed links, link to a specific SpecSection, and bulk-link from the matrix view.

Verification

Building a verification matrix

Connect TestCase records to requirements, track verification method, and read coverage rollups.

Verification

Trace Score explained

How the project Trace Score is calculated, which dimensions count, and what severity weighting means.

AI & ingestion

Uploading project documents

Supported formats (.docx, .pdf, .xlsx), chunking, and how the RAG retrieval pipeline scopes results per project.

AI & ingestion

Bring-your-own LLM keys

Add per-user OpenAI, Anthropic, or Vercel AI Gateway keys; manage server-side fallbacks.

AI & ingestion

Approving AI suggestions

Use Suggestions and Extractions review queues; understand PENDING → ACCEPTED/REJECTED/DISMISSED, activity logging, and human review gates.

Delivery

Products/components BOM table-tree

Read the Products / Components Structure view: collapse hierarchy, spec-gap chips, make/model fields, readiness rollups, and leaf status pills.

Delivery

Schedule import (MS Project XML)

Map MS Project tasks onto TraceWorks tasks; keep linked artifacts in sync after re-import.

Delivery

Submittal review cycles

Configure review gates, capture sign-off records, and produce a submittal log report.

Reference

Data model reference

All 60+ Prisma models, link tables, and enums — what each field is for and how relationships flow.

Integrations

MCP server: connect Claude, Cursor, and other AI clients

TraceWorks exposes a Model Context Protocol endpoint secured by OAuth 2.1. Use 52 scoped tools to list projects, fetch requirements, create records, link trace artifacts, inspect Trace Score, or run RAG retrieval.

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