Cartographer Agent

Overview 

Cartographer is the discovery and system-mapping documentation surface. In Synthetix this capability is delivered by Analyst plus the Discover agent trio, which together produce structural visibility of routes, data, background execution, and capability intent. 

Business Value 

• Builds a reliable map of current-state behavior before modernization decisions are made. 

• Reduces blind spots by grounding architecture input in deterministic discovery artifacts. 

• Improves migration confidence by exposing hidden dependencies early. 

Core Responsibilities 

• Identify modules, responsibilities, and business capability touchpoints. 

• Resolve dispatch and ownership paths for legacy and mixed stacks. 

• Build database routine and dependency visibility for downstream planning. 

• Enrich background-job and asynchronous workload understanding. 

Key Inputs 

• Source code, route definitions, schema and SQL assets, job/scheduler artifacts. 

• Engagement context from intake and analyst evidence. 

Key Outputs 

• Analyst requirement and capability context. 

• Dispatch resolution artifacts. 

• Database catalog artifacts. 

• Enriched background-job inventory. 

Governance and Controls 

• Deterministic, evidence-first extraction where supported. 

• Confidence and unresolved markers when source evidence is incomplete. 

Typical CTA Page Metadata 

• Slug: /docs/agents/cartographer 

• Primary Audience: Discovery teams, architects, modernization analysts.