Data Flow

Key workflows showing how data moves through the Canon system.

PR Analysis Flow

The primary workflow — from webhook to PR comment:

Ticket Sync Flow

Forward Sync (Spec → Tickets)

Reverse Sync (Tickets → Spec)

Realization Sync (Code → Spec)

Interactive Command Flow

When a user comments @canon apply docs on a PR:

Diff Budgeting

The agent has a limited context window. Diffs are included using a budget-based approach:

With the default 128k input token limit, this yields ~504,000 characters for diffs. Files are sorted largest-first to prioritize the most substantial changes.