Prerequisite and dependency mapping

Problem

Future context catalog features often depend on foundational capabilities — new profiling layers, schema contract extensions, additional data source adapters, or infrastructure changes — that have long lead times. Without mapping these prerequisites and dependencies in advance, work on future enrichment capabilities will repeatedly stall on missing foundations that could have been built incrementally. This increases startup cost for every new feature and creates avoidable delays in the roadmap.

Context

• Future work on context schema/catalog contracts and Nimble enrichment flows across product surfaces will fail or stall if its hidden dependencies stay implicit, so this task should make the enabling conditions visible before anyone commits implementation effort.
• The goal is to understand which technical, product, operational, or partner-side prerequisites gate the most important next bets.
• Expected touchpoints include dataface/ai/, context-contract docs, eval wiring, and inspect-derived artifacts, adjacent workstream plans, external dependencies, and any architectural decisions that would constrain later options.

Possible Solutions

• A - Let each future initiative discover its own blockers as it starts: workable short term, but it creates repeated surprise and thrash.
• B - Recommended: produce a dependency map for the most important future directions: identify technical enablers, ownership gaps, sequencing constraints, and external dependencies up front.
• C - Treat everything as blocked until all possible prerequisites are solved: safe on paper, but too broad to be useful.

Plan

1. List the future directions most likely to matter for context schema/catalog contracts and Nimble enrichment flows across product surfaces and enumerate the dependencies each one appears to require.
2. Group those dependencies into themes such as architecture, data/contracts, operations, design, or external approvals and identify likely owners.
3. Highlight the prerequisites that unlock multiple future paths and the ones that are too speculative to prioritize yet.
4. Turn the highest-value prerequisites into sequenced follow-up tasks or explicit decision points rather than leaving them buried in notes.

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