Overview

mlia-model-explorer is an MLIA analysis plugin. It runs after analysis, consumes MLIA's standardized output, and creates an interactive Model Explorer view of the source graph, MLIA entity hierarchies, metrics, checks, and advice.

What this package owns

The package owns:

• The --model-explorer files|open analysis-plugin option.
• Conversion of supported source models through Model Explorer adapters.
• Projection of MLIA entities into generated hierarchy graphs.
• Node-data overlays and cross-graph navigation mappings.
• A self-contained index.html using the vendored embedded visualizer.

The Python ai-edge-model-explorer package supplies conversion APIs and built-in adapters. It does not serve the generated page. Browser rendering uses the checked-in main_embedded.js, with graph data and overlays embedded directly in the HTML.

Ownership boundaries

MLIA core owns analysis, standardized-output validation, entity definitions, and filtering such as code-stack collapse. Adapter packages own translation from their native model formats into Model Explorer graph JSON. This plugin owns the correlation between those graphs and MLIA entities, plus the standalone browser experience.

The artifact manifest and mapping files carry schema or contract versions, but their current field layouts are implementation contracts rather than a frozen external interchange standard. See Artifacts for their behavioral roles.