always
map every structured task: workflows, designs, architecture,
How to use it
always is exposed by the Mellos Mapping MCP server. Add the server to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf and others), and the always tool becomes available to the model automatically. See the full listing for setup details and every tool this server provides.
Install Mellos Mapping
npx -y mellos-mappingOther tools in Mellos Mapping (8)
the same, but only for medium or complex tasks: several modules,
Grow the map: title (null removes it), diagram kind, layer bands, lanes, groups (subsystems), nodes — with status, evidence, detail, kind, group, lane, submap — and edges, optionally labeled (all-or-nothing batch)
Put the map on your screen: open the pane, or retarget an open one to a page (window: true for the dedicated window). It answers with whether a pane actually reported in afterwards, not merely that a command ran — and it can never close one
Revise: drop edges, nodes, groups, lanes, empty bands — and, with pages, whole pages, file and all (permanent; applied after this call's map edits)
Get/set the project's mapping policy — when maps open
Record progress and revise: status (planned → in-progress → done +evidence, regressed), relabel a node, move it to another band (layer), join/leave a group or lane, set a node kind or a submap; rename and re-rank bands (layers), relabel groups (groups) and lanes (lanes); null clears any clearable fi
Render the current map as text inline (optional zoom, -4…2), ending with a pages: line naming every page the project has and which one you are looking at
map only when you explicitly ask. In a project with no map,