/internal/docs/PRIORITIES.md

Priorities

The ranked work queue for the autonomous improvement loop. The architecture-review pass (the architect) owns this file: each run it turns the roadmap plus an internal scan (gaps in the services → agents → workflows lifecycle, API coherence, drift, tech debt, test and DX friction) into a single ordered list — highest-value first — and links each item to a tracking issue. The hourly continuous-improvement pass works the top item whose issue is still open. So the architect decides what, and the increment loop builds it.

Reading / editing. An item is done when its linked issue closes (the increment that builds it adds Closes #<issue>). Roadmap phase (Now → Next → Later) is the primary ordering; internal findings are interleaved by value, not kept in a separate list. The human can reorder this list — or the issues — at any time to redirect the loop; direction always wins.

Off-limits to the loop (the architect proposes these as notes, never as queue items the loop can auto-merge): brand/positioning copy, breaking public-API changes, architectural rewrites. Those go to the human.

Now (ranked)

1. Durable agent loop (#3010) — checkpoint and resume an agent run via flow.Checkpoint so long-running agents survive restarts without replaying completed tool calls. Roadmap → Next; promoted because the Now hardening items (0→hero and provider matrix) have shipped, and durability is the biggest remaining harness-operability gap.
2. Streaming end to end (#3012) — ai.Stream through micro chat, the agent RPC, and A2A message/stream; scope to chat + one provider first. Roadmap → Next.
3. Registry disconnection detection (#2956) — readiness/health when a service silently loses its registry connection. Community-requested production reliability; keeps the service substrate operable because agents depend on discovery.
4. Execution lifecycle hooks & metadata (#2980) — before/after-tool, retry, and failure hooks; first check overlap with the shipped run-timeline / OpenTelemetry work and scope to what's not already covered.

Seeded by Claude Code from the roadmap + open issues; thereafter maintained by the architecture-review pass.