Adoption hardening for internal teams

Problem

The context catalog was built and validated against a single pilot team's workflows and datasets. Expanding to multiple internal teams and external design partners will expose assumptions baked into the current implementation — hard-coded schema patterns, missing metadata for unfamiliar data sources, performance bottlenecks at larger scale, and workflow gaps specific to different team structures. Without proactive hardening, each new adopter will hit preventable failures that erode confidence in the system.

Context

• Pilot work proved the baseline flow for context schema/catalog contracts and Nimble enrichment flows across product surfaces, but repeated use by multiple internal teams and first design partners will surface reliability and UX edge cases that the pilot could work around manually.
• This milestone is about turning a promising path into something teams can use predictably without bespoke engineering help, support heroics, or undocumented workarounds.
• Expected touchpoints include dataface/ai/, context-contract docs, eval wiring, and inspect-derived artifacts, plus any onboarding, validation, and issue-triage surfaces that repeatedly fail during broader adoption.

Possible Solutions

• A - Fix only the currently visible blockers: fast, but it tends to preserve hidden fragility and leaves the next round of adopters to rediscover the same classes of issues.
• B - Recommended: define an adoption-hardening checklist and close the highest-impact gaps: combine real usage review, targeted fixes, docs/runbook updates, and validation so repeated use becomes predictable.
• C - Pause broader adoption until a larger redesign is finished: reduces short-term support load, but delays the real feedback this milestone is meant to capture.

Plan

1. Review prototype/pilot outputs, open issues, and support friction to identify the top blockers to repeated team adoption of context schema/catalog contracts and Nimble enrichment flows across product surfaces.
2. Turn those findings into a prioritized hardening scope that covers product behavior, docs/runbooks, and validation for the highest-risk flows.
3. Land or queue the highest-impact fixes and document explicit known limits for anything intentionally left out of scope.
4. Re-run representative multi-team or design-partner scenarios and update follow-up tasks based on what still fails or feels too brittle.

Implementation Progress

Review Feedback

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