Capabilities
One row per Prism capability — CLI command, MCP tool, and what question it answers.
Lookup table generated from the CLI command table and MCP tool registry. Prefer the guides when you have a job to do; use this page when you need the exhaustive index.
CLI
| Command | What it answers |
|---|---|
prism backend | backend |
prism blast | blast |
prism bundle | bundle |
prism completions | completions |
prism cycles | cycles |
prism deps | deps |
prism dna | dna |
prism doctor | doctor |
prism engineering | engineering |
prism explain | explain |
prism explore | explore |
prism features | features |
prism health | health |
prism index | index |
prism landmarks | landmarks |
prism map | map |
prism packages | packages |
prism refs | refs |
prism rename | rename |
prism review | review |
prism route | route |
prism safe-delete | safe-delete |
prism security | security |
prism stack | stack |
prism symbol | symbol |
prism test-impact | test-impact |
prism testing | testing |
MCP tools
| Tool | What it answers |
|---|---|
backend_report | Route-granular backend intelligence |
blast_radius | What depends on a file or symbol, and how risky changing it is |
breaking_change_hints | Deprecated |
capabilities | List every Core analysis capability and consent-gated integration with availability and a reason when unavailable |
changed_paths | List workspace-relative paths changed in the working tree, or against an optional git base ref |
configure | Read or update gitignored Dispatch settings |
dependency_cycles | Import and re-export cycles, each returned as the list of files forming the loop |
dependency_graph | The import/re-export dependency graph, at file level or aggregated to packages |
dependency_route | Show how one file or symbol reaches another through the dependency graph, with alternative paths |
dispatch_doctor | Check whether Dispatch can run local Cursor workers |
engineering_health | The deep engineering view |
explain_area | Explain what a module or folder does |
explore_code | Everything about one file or symbol in a single call |
feature_graph | Inferred features and how they depend on each other |
find_references | Find resolved references to a symbol — who actually calls or imports it |
find_symbol | Find indexed symbols by exact name, optionally narrowed by file or kind |
health_history | Health score over time from stored index snapshots and optional git backfill |
integrations | Catalogue what Dispatch can connect, start OAuth for GitHub (user), Linear, Jira, Slack (mentions + tracked channels), Notion, or Google Calendar, or disconnect a driver |
job_control | Pause, resume, cancel, or attach extra context to a running Dispatch job |
knowledge_graph | The symbol-level graph — declarations and the references between them — with summary stats |
landmarks | Named entrypoints, package roots and feature anchors — the places a human would open first |
list_features | Inferred features with their member files and a confidence score |
list_jobs | Where are we |
list_packages | List the packages in a monorepo with their roots |
remember | Save, list, or forget scoped memories that Dispatch injects into the next start_job prompt |
rename_impact | Every edit site a rename would touch, plus breaking-change hints for public surface |
repository_dna | Identify what a repository is |
repository_health | Score overall repository health from 0-100 with the per-factor breakdown behind the score |
repository_map | Return the repository's structural map at a zoom level |
repository_overview | The dashboard summary in one call |
review_changes | Review changed paths in one call |
safe_delete | Whether a file or symbol can be deleted safely |
search_symbols | Substring or regex search over indexed symbol names (unlike find_symbol, which is exact-match only) |
security_report | Left-shift security posture |
stack_profile | Detected stack for the workspace or a single package |
start_job | Create a Dispatch job from a ticket or title plus PRD |
start_my_day | Standup briefing for this repository |
test_impact | Which test files transitively cover a change target — the tests worth running after touching it |
testing_report | Test structure and, when coverage artifacts are already on disk, coverage |
workspace_status | Compact workspace readiness |