The project map

The project map is a picture of how a project is built: its main parts, what each one is, and how they connect. One click makes it. It is meant for the moment you come back to a project after months, or hand it to someone new and want to show them the shape of it before they read any code. It is free and part of the studio, and needs no aigopilot.com account.

The map is drawn like a sketch on white paper, with pen lines, a few coloured notes, and a small black creature beside the part at the core. It is not a diagram of every file. It has between five and fourteen parts.

Make a map

1. Open the project and click Project map in its header, beside New session.
2. The pane says what the map is, what will be read, and which subscription will read it, as "Read with" and the account.
3. Click Make the map.

While it works, the pane shows the step and the seconds: copying the files it may read, the subscription reading the project, checking the answer. Stop ends it. A real project took under a minute in our trial.

When it is done, the map stands in the pane with "Made" and the date and account. The studio keeps the last map in its own data folder, never in the project, and shows it at once the next time you open the pane. Make again reads the project anew after it changed.

What is read, and by whom

Your own subscription reads the project: the Claude Code, Codex or Grok account the project uses for its mail and its other AI work, the same choice for all of them. It is never another account and never a key of ours. It reads a filtered copy of the project's text files, made for the occasion and removed afterwards. Files of secrets, git history and dependencies are never copied, and nothing is written into the project.

The answer is checked before anything is drawn: the right shape, short labels, no markup. An answer that cannot be used is asked for once more; after a second failure the pane says the map could not be made. If the account is signed out or at its limit, the map waits: the pane says why, offers to choose another subscription for the project, and has Try again.

The labels are in the language of the studio, English or Japanese. Names from the project stay as they are written there.

Painted with Codex

If the project may use a Codex account that can make pictures, the pane also offers Paint with Codex. Codex's own image tool then paints the same map as a picture, and the pane gets two tabs, Drawn and Painted. Without such an account the button is not there. Painting uses that Codex account's allowance.

Save it

Save as PNG and Save as SVG save the drawn map, with its fonts inside, so it looks the same anywhere. Save the painting saves the painted one. The studio asks for a folder, never writes over a file that is there (it adds -2 to the name), and says where it saved it, with Show in folder.

Limits

• The map is made for a project on the computer in front of you. A project of another computer is not read from here.
• It costs part of your subscription's allowance, like a prompt that reads the project.
• The iPhone app does not show maps.

Questions