How to use this file: before planning work on any category, check its Requires row. If anything there is not yet built, that is the real next task — not the category you started with. The Unlocks row tells you what becomes possible once the category exists, which is often a better ordering signal than the category itself.
Dependency Map · Prerequisites & Unlocks
What Must Come Before What
For every category with real prerequisites, this file lists three things: what it requires (hard — you cannot build X without Y), what should come before it (soft — helpful, not strictly required), and what it unlocks (the categories that become possible after it exists).
Categories not listed here have no hard prerequisites. They can be built independently in any order.
Requires — hard prerequisite
Recommended before — soft prerequisite
Unlocks — enabled by this