Foundry-Iterating-On-A-Workflow — Visualization Ideas

Placeholder. jmchilton mentioned having specific visualization ideas for showing Foundry building/refining a Galaxy workflow. Fill this in directly — future agents should treat the captured ideas here as authoritative.

Target uses: pre-roll for demo 2 video, optional standalone Tier-2 slide, possible loop on the standalone long video.

Concept to develop (jmchilton notes here)

• Visual metaphor (DAG-grows-step-by-step? Mold-by-Mold colored badges? gxwf gate blinking green→red→green?)
• Substrate (animated SVG, browser canvas, recorded screencap, etc.)
• What does success vs. failure look like frame-by-frame?
• How is provenance from Cast/Mold sources visually carried?
• Length target?

Constraints to inherit

• Must read at a glance from across a conference room — high contrast, big elements.
• Must work at the same aesthetic as the rest of the deck (terminal-monochrome with the #0066cc accent).
• Must not show Nextflow conversion.
• Must not require explanation that exceeds the existing demo 2 voiceover.

Candidate hooks (to be confirmed, deleted, or replaced)

These are scaffolding only — do not implement until jmchilton fills in the section above.

• Build-the-DAG — graph grows node-by-node as Molds emit steps; each new node flashes when gxwf validates it.
• Schema-as-light — each parameter slot lights up when bound; misbound parameters glow red until corrected.
• Mold trail — left-side timeline of executed Molds with provenance trail back to Cast / source documents.
• Inner-loop scribble — split-screen of agent text on left, growing Format2 YAML on right, gxwf diagnostics flickering as the Format2 evolves.

Decisions

• Will any of the above be a standalone Tier-2 slide?
• Will any be embedded as a pre-roll for demo 2?
• Will any be a recurring loop on the long video?