---
title: Features
description: Core features and capabilities of TraceRTM
---

# TraceRTM Features

Comprehensive requirements traceability with multi-view architecture, intelligent linking, and agent-native interfaces.

## 🎯 Core Capabilities

| Icon | Feature | Description |
|------|---------|-------------|
| 📊 | **16 Professional Views** | Feature, Code, Test, API, Database, Architecture, and more - see your project from every angle |
| 🔗 | **60+ Link Types** | Rich relationship modeling across 12 categories for complete traceability |
| 🤖 | **Agent-Native** | Support for 1-1000 concurrent autonomous agents with CLI, Python API, and JSON/YAML |
| ⏱️ | **Event Sourcing** | Complete audit trail and time-travel capabilities for compliance |
| 🔄 | **Real-Time Collaboration** | WebSocket-based updates for seamless team collaboration |
| 📈 | **Impact Analysis** | Understand change propagation across your entire project |

## 🚀 Multi-View System

TraceRTM's core strength is the **multi-view architecture** where items exist in different views but maintain a single source of truth.

### CLI Interface

Create items in different views:

```bash
# Create feature
rtm item create "User Auth" --view FEATURE

# Create implementation
rtm item create "auth.py" --view CODE --type file

# Create test
rtm item create "test_auth.py" --view TEST --type test_case

# Link them together
rtm link create FEATURE-001 CODE-001 --type implements
rtm link create TEST-001 CODE-001 --type tests
```

### Web UI

Visual multi-view editor with:
- ✨ Drag-and-drop item creation
- ✨ Visual link builder
- ✨ Real-time collaboration
- ✨ Graph visualization

## 🎬 Visual Demos

### Creating Items: CLI vs Web UI

**CLI Interface** - Perfect for automation and scripting:
```bash
# Create a feature
rtm item create "User Auth" --view FEATURE

# Create implementation
rtm item create "auth.py" --view CODE --type file

# Create test
rtm item create "test_auth.py" --view TEST --type test_case

# Link them together
rtm link create FEATURE-001 CODE-001 --type implements
rtm link create TEST-001 CODE-001 --type tests
```

**Web UI** - Visual interface with drag-and-drop:
- 🎨 Drag items between views
- 🔗 Visual link builder with preview
- 👥 Real-time collaboration indicators
- 📊 Live graph visualization

> 💡 **Tip**: Both CLI and Web UI modify the same underlying data. Use CLI for automation, Web UI for visual exploration.

## 🔗 Intelligent Linking

Create rich relationships between items with 60+ link types:

| Category | Link Types | Use Case |
|----------|-----------|----------|
| **Dependency** | depends-on, blocks, blocked-by | Track dependencies |
| **Implementation** | implements, implemented-by | Link features to code |
| **Testing** | tests, tested-by | Link tests to code |
| **Documentation** | documents, documented-by | Link docs to items |
| **Hierarchy** | parent, child, sibling | Organize items |
| **Relationship** | relates-to, conflicts-with | General relationships |

## 📋 Workflow: Feature to Code to Test

### Step 1: Create Feature
Define the requirement in FEATURE view:
```bash
rtm item create "User Authentication" --view FEATURE
```

### Step 2: Create Implementation
Add code file in CODE view:
```bash
rtm item create "auth.py" --view CODE --type file
```

### Step 3: Create Test
Add test case in TEST view:
```bash
rtm item create "test_auth.py" --view TEST --type test_case
```

### Step 4: Link Items
Create relationships between items:
```bash
rtm link create FEATURE-001 CODE-001 --type implements
rtm link create TEST-001 CODE-001 --type tests
```

### Step 5: View Traceability
See complete traceability matrix:
```bash
rtm link show FEATURE-001
rtm graph export --format matrix
```

## 🎨 16 Professional Views

Each view provides a specialized perspective on your project:

- **FEATURE** - Product features and epics
- **CODE** - Source code files and modules
- **TEST** - Test cases and test suites
- **API** - API endpoints and schemas
- **DATABASE** - Database tables and relationships
- **ARCHITECTURE** - System architecture components
- **INFRASTRUCTURE** - Infrastructure and deployment
- **WIREFRAME** - UI/UX wireframes
- **DATA_FLOW** - Data flow diagrams
- **SECURITY** - Security requirements and threats
- **PERFORMANCE** - Performance requirements
- **MONITORING** - Monitoring and observability
- **DOMAIN_MODEL** - Domain entities and relationships
- **USER_JOURNEY** - User journeys and flows
- **CONFIGURATION** - Configuration and settings
- **DEPENDENCY** - External dependencies

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**Next:** [API Reference](/docs/api-reference/)

