@witty-crayon-22786 is there an already existing way to identify the roots of a request? (in context of https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/pull/5639). I realize my latest run actually filters out all nodes matching the exclude pattern (including inner ones). And looking at the AddressFamily objects and Specs, not obvious if there is something that differentiates an address as being a root compared to being an inner node.