The autolinking feature allows links to be given to new nodes as they are created within compositions. In a practical sense, this means that when an item is inserted in a composition by means of the M-L-I command, the new item node is assigned a link to something reachable from the composition root node. There are plans to extend this capability so that autolinking can be done to other areas of the database as well, but at present one can only autolink to objects available through the composition root.