/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. Cross-provider agent conformance matrix (#3187) — run the same agent scenario across supported providers behind credential gates, with deterministic local skips and a fake/local provider path. Roadmap → Now; highest leverage trust work after streaming shipped because every agent feature depends on provider behavior staying consistent.
2. Registry disconnection detection (#2956) — readiness/health when a service silently loses its registry connection. Roadmap → Now failure/resilience; keeps the service substrate operable because agents depend on discovery.
3. Agent observability spans (#3182) — export RunInfo as OpenTelemetry spans for agent runs, model calls, tool calls, delegation, and failures. Roadmap → Next; makes the now-durable and streaming harness inspectable in production.
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.