A code-grounded robustness audit of the strategic spine (MCP gateway, A2A,
x402) plus the two Mu-discovered foundations (in-process dispatch, durable
agentic workflow). Headline: all four are well-built internally and fragile at
the edge — the exposure surface the strategy rests on is the least
externally-proven part of the codebase (no test drives a real external MCP host,
third-party A2A SDK, or real x402 facilitator/wallet).
- internal/docs/GAP_AUDIT.md — the findings, file:line + severity + what "robust
in practice" requires, and a prioritized build order.
- .github/loop/PRIORITIES.md — repointed so the loop pulls the well-defined
strategic-spine fixes first (#4813 MCP stdio JSON, #4814 x402 budget-bypass,
#4815 A2A conformance, #4786 buyer wiring), with the architectural items
(#4816 durable agentic workflow, #4817 dispatch fast-path, MCP transport
unification) marked needs-human as 1:1 development the loop must not auto-build.
Reframes the queue around "advances the strategy vs grooms a proxy" — and makes
explicit that the planner ranks a human-curated backlog, it does not invent work.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CmdEY7pYmV5zzwCjNJ4ykL
Asim Aslam