What's New
What’s new and changed on docs.jinflow.io.
April 10, 2026
Section titled “April 10, 2026”Six new concepts land in the documentation
Section titled “Six new concepts land in the documentation”Two weeks of design work have reached user-facing form. Six concept documents and the supporting guide and architecture updates:
Supply-Org Pricing
Section titled “Supply-Org Pricing”The correct pricing grain is (material, supply_org), not material alone. We added a new supply_org column to gold_article_catalogues, gold_material_movements, and gold_price_series, plus a new supply_org_matched rule in the price palette and a gold_supply_orgs lookup table. Additive — all existing rules still work. In nuMetrix, canonical supply-org values are PHA (pharmacy) and LOG (logistics). Read the architecture page.
Extractor Discipline — The trust boundary contract
Section titled “Extractor Discipline — The trust boundary contract”Extraction is a trust boundary: everything that crosses it must be explicit, pinned by SHA-256, verified on every run, logged in an append-only audit file, and failure-intolerant. A pipeline.yml file at the tenant AFS root declares every file, its source type, and its expected schema. The configuration IS the contract, and the contract is the audit trail. New guide: Extraction.
Studio, Salon, Lab — Three rooms, three tempos
Section titled “Studio, Salon, Lab — Three rooms, three tempos”Analytical work is not one activity — it is three. The Studio is where you build (slow, precise, asynchronous). The Salon is where you meet (synchronous, interpretive, social). The Lab is where you test (exploratory, messy, iterative). The Explorer names its spaces with this vocabulary — Price Lab, Map Salon, Spend Studio — so the suffix tells you how to use the page and whom to bring along. New concept page: Studio / Salon / Lab.
P2P2P — Peer-to-Peer-to-People
Section titled “P2P2P — Peer-to-Peer-to-People”Your data. Your machine. Their browser. A deployment mode where the KLS stays on the data owner’s machine and the cloud Explorer routes queries through a Cloudflare Tunnel. When the owner closes the laptop, the data disappears from the internet instantly. This is the Sovereignty Principle — access is physical, not administrative. New concept page: P2P2P.
Operating Modes — Five deployment topologies
Section titled “Operating Modes — Five deployment topologies”The pipeline has two phases: pre-make (preparation: gathers source data and SIS content, commits to AFS) and make (a pure function: AFS in → KLS out, no side effects). On top of that split, jinflow supports five deployment topologies — Local, Proxy (P2P2P), Cloud, Semi-Cloud, and Make-as-a-Service — without changing the code. The Deploy guide has been restructured around this taxonomy. New page: Operating Modes.
Search Grammar v2
Section titled “Search Grammar v2”Type like you think. The search understands. Six progressive levels — plain words, operators (>1000, ..), field filters (!cat:ortho), logic (hip OR knee, -consumable), smart tokens (today, last-7d), and aggregation hints (CHF >10000, 3+ findings). Backward-compatible superset of the old syntax. New guide: Search.
Other updates
Section titled “Other updates”- Landing page tagline elevated into a prominent centered block.
- Landing quicklinks now include Operating Modes and Data Sovereignty (P2P2P).
- Glossary: 8 new terms added.
- CLAUDE.md updated with pre-make/make split, operating modes, and extraction contract sections.
April 4, 2026
Section titled “April 4, 2026”The Signal Paradigm (Sense 14)
Section titled “The Signal Paradigm (Sense 14)”Major vocabulary shift across all documentation:
- Signal is now Signal — the declaration that detects patterns in data
- Perspective is now Perspective — the aggregated entity-level health view
- Thesis is now Thesis — the business question evaluated against evidence
- Verdict is now Verdict — the root cause explanation with confidence and recommendation
- severity (discrete high/medium/low) replaced by score (0-100 continuous) with display labels
- money_at_risk generalized to impact (value + unit + dimension: financial/operational/quality/cultural/strategic)
- New concept: polarity (positive/negative/neutral) — is the detected pattern good, bad, or informational?
- New concept: direction (improving/stable/worsening) — how is the pattern trending?
The new analytical pyramid: Signal → Perspective → Thesis → Verdict.
Explorer page renames:
- Theses → Theses
- Compare → Diff Loupe
- New page: Map Salon (geographic visualization)
- New page: Spend Studio (consumption analytics)
Updated pages: Big Picture, Explorer Guide, Instruments Guide, Glossary, Diagrams, Design Principles, Landing Page, SME Guide, Showcases, Finding to Verdict tutorial
April 2, 2026
Section titled “April 2, 2026”New: Computed Aggregates
Section titled “New: Computed Aggregates”Declarative SQL expressions for group-by views. Entity YAML declares formulas that replace naive SUM — so delta_qty_pct computes correctly even when grouping by department.
New: Signal Builder (unified)
Section titled “New: Signal Builder (unified)”Signal Playground merged into Signal Builder. Two modes: Visual (step-by-step wizard) and YAML (raw editor with compile, validate, dry-run, roundtrip, save-to-AFS).
Updated: Price Lab
Section titled “Updated: Price Lab”New features: palette overlay (toggleable reference lines on timeline), histogram drilldown (click a bar to see individual materials).
April 1, 2026
Section titled “April 1, 2026”New: Price Lab documentation
Section titled “New: Price Lab documentation”Full section in the Explorer guide covering the three chart modes (scatter plot, deviation histogram, per-material timeline), configurable resolution rules, zoom/pan, deep linking, and cross-navigation.
New: CLI commands documented
Section titled “New: CLI commands documented”jinflow sources— source file inventory with CSV schemas, row counts, DLZ discovery, XLSX lineage, and temporal pricing hintsjinflow purge— slim down KLS by dropping bronze/silver tables (saves 40-60%)
Updated: Bookmark behavior
Section titled “Updated: Bookmark behavior”Bookmarked analytical entities now get priority in the sidebar’s Analytics section — they float to the top. Bookmarks persist via SIS→AFS publish/merge, surviving rebuilds and syncing across machines.
March 30, 2026
Section titled “March 30, 2026”New: Expert Knowledge Capture
Section titled “New: Expert Knowledge Capture”How the SME (Subject Matter Expert) contributes knowledge to jinflow — guided interview mode, quick capture, voice capture (future). The full lifecycle from “SME speaks” to “Explorer surfaces.”
New: Four Core Values
Section titled “New: Four Core Values”The 18 design principles distilled into 4 core values: Declarative, Transparent, Independent, Human. A mermaid diagram and mapping table show how each principle supports a value.
New: Two Showcases
Section titled “New: Two Showcases”Complete end-to-end walkthroughs of every jinflow instrument using real data:
- From Vine to Verdict — Millesime (winemaking): 10 entities, 12 signals, 3 theses, 3 verdicts, 2 SMEbits, 6 reports. Read it
- From Shipment to Savings — InterLogic (logistics): 12 entities, 6 signals, 4 theses, 4 verdicts, 4 SMEbits, 5 reports. Read it
New: P/T-Worlds (Design Principle #18)
Section titled “New: P/T-Worlds (Design Principle #18)”The pipeline and the instruments evolve in parallel. The P-world (Pipeline) and T-world (Talk) share Entity + Contract as a stable interface. Neither blocks the other.
Read the principle — Glossary entry
Redesigned: Landing Page
Section titled “Redesigned: Landing Page”New layout with tagline (“Talk to your data — so it speaks to you.”), 3-column hero, and a hand-drawn instrument map.
Redesigned: All Diagrams
Section titled “Redesigned: All Diagrams”Every mermaid diagram now uses hand-drawn rendering, soft pastel colors, and clickable lightbox (zoom, pan).
Updated: CLI Syntax
Section titled “Updated: CLI Syntax”All commands now use positional pack.tenant target. Wildcard builds: jinflow make millesime.*. New: jinflow instance.
March 26, 2026
Section titled “March 26, 2026”Documentation Site Launch
Section titled “Documentation Site Launch”47 pages in English, German, and French. 26 presentations. Pagefind search. Starlight (Astro) framework.
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