Tracing connections

Tracing lets you follow the relationships between elements on the canvas — seeing where an element came from, what it fed into, and how a workflow is structured.

What tracing shows

Every element that was produced from or connected to another element has a traceable lineage. Tracing an element reveals:

• Upstream — the inputs that produced it (source images, prompts, reference elements)

• Downstream — the elements that use it as an input

This is useful when you're working with complex canvases where many elements are connected across multiple generation steps.

Following connections visually

Selected elements and their direct connections highlight on the canvas. You can follow a chain manually by clicking through connected elements.

For programmatic traversal of connection graphs — for example, to reconstruct a full derivation chain or understand a workflow built by an agent — see Tracing connections in the Agents section.

Workflow lineage

Because every generation step records its inputs as edges, a connected canvas is a full record of how work was produced. You can look at any image and trace back through the connections to see the original references, prompts, and intermediate steps that led to it.