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type: initiative slug: grain-fanout-risk title: Grain Inference and Fanout Risk workstream: context-catalog-nimble owner: data-ai-engineer-architect status: ready_for_eng milestone: m1-ft-analytics-analyst-pilot tasks: - task-m1-ai-context-grain-fanout-risk-signals - research-deterministic-column-fanout-risk-signals-and-ai-context-surfacing

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Grain Inference and Fanout Risk

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Objective

Infer candidate model grain, join multiplicity profiles, and fanout risk scores from profiling stats and relationship graph. Surface warnings to agents and compile-time linting.

Deliverables

• [x] Define scope and decision boundaries.
• [x] Produce implementation plan and execution checkpoints.
• [ ] Capture rollout and validation approach.

Approach

Three-phase implementation adding new modules to dataface/core/inspect/:

1. Phase 1 — Grain candidate inference (grain_detector.py): Detect per-table grain from existing profiler stats (PK, uniqueness, naming). No new DB queries.
2. Phase 2 — Join multiplicity profiling (join_multiplicity.py): Classify relationship cardinality (1:1, 1:N, N:1, N:M) and compute fanout factors from existing column stats.
3. Phase 3 — Fanout risk scoring (fanout_risk.py): Score join risk (none → critical) with actionable recommendations. Wire into MCP tools and compile-time warnings.

Phase 4 (multi-hop path analysis) is deferred to M2+.

See spec.md for full phased plan, output schemas, algorithms, non-goals, and acceptance criteria.

Tasks

• AI_CONTEXT grain and fanout risk signals (beta subset) — completed
• Research deterministic column fanout risk signals and AI context surfacing — completed research / design input for column-level hints vs edge-canonical model

Links

• Research
• Spec — full phased module plan, non-goals, output schemas
• Decisions