Best Practices

How to prompt the Catio MCP effectively.

Useful combinations

Before any architecture task

  1. get_workspace_info: orient yourself
  2. get_workspace_context: load full requirements into context
  3. Ask Archie or search recommendations from there

"Is my architecture compliant?"

  1. get_workspace_context: full requirements picture
  2. search_inventory_components: find relevant components
  3. search_inventory_relationships: see what accesses what
  4. ask_archie → get_archie_response: synthesise

"What should I fix first?"

  1. search_recommendations with status: ["NEW","PINNED"], sort_by: "roi"
  2. get_recommendation for the top result: full implementation plan
  3. ask_archie: "given my architecture, how hard is this to implement?"

"Understand a service's dependencies"

  1. search_inventory_components with search: "service-name"
  2. search_inventory_relationships with component_id: all connections
  3. get_inventory_component for the interesting ones: full cloud attributes

"Brief me before a design review"

  1. get_workspace_context: all constraints in one call
  2. search_recommendations: any existing proposals on the topic
  3. ask_archie: "what should I be thinking about when designing X?"

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