infospace-bench/docs/legacy-command-parity.md

Legacy Command Parity

Date: 2026-05-14

Purpose

This guide maps the legacy markitect infospace command surface to the successor shape in infospace-bench, markitect-tool, and kontextual-engine.

The goal is replacement readiness for in-scope infospace work, not a name-for-name CLI clone. infospace-bench keeps concrete infospaces, application semantics, evaluation history, and file-backed workflow fixtures. markitect-tool owns markdown parsing and validation primitives. kontextual-engine owns durable asset, graph, retrieval, audit, and workflow runtime concerns when those move beyond file-backed operation.

Status Values

• replaced: use the successor command directly.
• reframed: the behavior exists, but the user flow has a cleaner successor shape.
• delegated: the behavior belongs in a sibling repo and is consumed through an adapter or contract.
• deferred: still in scope, but not required for the current replacement gate.
• retired: the legacy behavior should not be rebuilt.

Command Map

Legacy command	Status	Successor command or API	Notes
markitect infospace init	replaced	infospace-bench create <workspace> <slug> --name "<name>" --topic-domain "<domain>"	Creates the file-backed infospaces/<slug>/ layout and manifest.
markitect infospace status	replaced	infospace-bench status <root>	JSON summary of config, artifact counts, parsed entities/relations, metrics, viability, history, and graph counts.
markitect infospace entities	replaced	infospace-bench entities <root> or infospace_bench.semantics.list_entities(root)	Entity semantics are bench-owned and markdown parsing is delegated to markitect-tool.
markitect infospace chapters	reframed	infospace-bench export <root> plus workflow/source artifact inspection	The successor tracks sources as manifest artifacts instead of a chapter-only table. A richer source triage command is deferred.
markitect infospace evaluate	reframed	infospace-bench workflow plan <root> <workflow_id> and explicit assisted adapters	Provider-specific LLM calls are no longer hidden in the app CLI. Assisted stages are auditable and require an explicit adapter.
markitect infospace eval-summary	reframed	infospace-bench history <root> --metric per_artifact_mean and infospace-bench status <root>	Evaluation results are structured artifacts plus metrics history, not a one-off text table.
markitect infospace relations	replaced	infospace-bench relations <root>	Relation triplets resolve endpoints against parsed entity artifacts.
markitect infospace classify	deferred	infospace-bench workflow plan/run <root> <classification_workflow>	Classification remains in scope as an explicit workflow, but provider execution is not part of this readiness gate.
markitect infospace viability	replaced	infospace-bench viability <root>	Evaluates configured thresholds from persisted metrics.
markitect infospace check	replaced	infospace-bench check <root>	Runs deterministic collection checks, persists metrics, appends history, and writes viability output.
markitect infospace history	replaced	infospace-bench history <root> or infospace-bench history <root> --metric <name>	Reads file-backed metric snapshots.
markitect infospace history-diff	replaced	infospace-bench history-diff <root> <before> <after>	Diffs snapshots by ID or date reference.
markitect infospace bind-discipline	deferred	Edit infospace.yaml disciplines or add a later composition command	The config model supports discipline bindings; operational composition checks are a follow-up in infospace-bench.
markitect infospace process	reframed	`infospace-bench workflow inspect	plan
markitect infospace stale-mappings	deferred	Future workflow/engine provenance comparison	Digest and provenance data now exist; stale mapping policy needs a dedicated follow-up.
markitect infospace graph	replaced	infospace-bench graph <root> --format json or --format mermaid	Exports the artifact relationship graph from manifest relationships.

Retired Legacy Shapes

• Direct provider-specific LLM execution hidden behind a generic app command.
• Automatic git commits from infospace processing commands.
• Legacy output-directory conventions that bypass the artifact manifest.
• Parser and schema code duplicated inside the application repo.

Replacement Examples

Create and inspect an infospace:

infospace-bench create . wealth-vsm --name "Wealth through VSM" --topic-domain "Classical Economics"
infospace-bench status infospaces/wealth-vsm

Validate, check, and view viability:

infospace-bench validate infospaces/wealth-vsm-legacy-slice
infospace-bench check infospaces/wealth-vsm-legacy-slice
infospace-bench viability infospaces/wealth-vsm-legacy-slice

Inspect semantic artifacts and graph:

infospace-bench entities infospaces/wealth-vsm-legacy-slice
infospace-bench relations infospaces/wealth-vsm-legacy-slice
infospace-bench graph infospaces/wealth-vsm-legacy-slice --format mermaid

Run explicit workflows:

infospace-bench workflow inspect infospaces/bootstrap-pilot
infospace-bench workflow plan infospaces/bootstrap-pilot bootstrap-readiness
infospace-bench workflow run infospaces/bootstrap-pilot bootstrap-readiness

Run the Wealth/VSM one-chapter generation pilot with deterministic assisted fixtures:

infospace-bench workflow run infospaces/wealth-vsm-generation-pilot wealth-vsm-extract-entities --fixture-responses infospaces/wealth-vsm-generation-pilot/workflows/fixtures/wealth-vsm-fake-responses.yaml
infospace-bench workflow run infospaces/wealth-vsm-generation-pilot wealth-vsm-map-and-analyze --fixture-responses infospaces/wealth-vsm-generation-pilot/workflows/fixtures/wealth-vsm-fake-responses.yaml
infospace-bench workflow run infospaces/wealth-vsm-generation-pilot wealth-vsm-evaluate-entities --fixture-responses infospaces/wealth-vsm-generation-pilot/workflows/fixtures/wealth-vsm-fake-responses.yaml
infospace-bench check infospaces/wealth-vsm-generation-pilot