/.github/loop/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.

Work queue (ranked)

1. Add install troubleshooting to the first-agent on-ramp (#4077) — the quickstart page is now aligned with the provider-free first-agent path, so close the next 0→1 adoption seam: install verification and recovery before a newcomer reaches micro new or micro agent demo. Link a focused install troubleshooting path from the canonical on-ramp pages, cover binary installer versus go install, PATH/version checks, and the no-secret smoke path, then add a docs harness assertion so the install-recovery link cannot drift out of the first-agent journey.

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