/.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](../../ROADMAP.md) 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 memory compaction controls for long-running agents** ([#4765](https://github.com/micro/go-micro/issues/4765)) — #4763 closed the live registered-agent `micro chat --stream` gap, and the recent run also over-invested in docs-link guards, AtlasCloud-specific repair, and plan/delegate edge hardening. The next highest-value user-facing gap is memory that survives beyond toy conversations without unbounded prompt growth: add opt-in compaction/summarization that preserves recent turns/tool results, stores an inspectable summary, and keeps `Ask`/stream/checkpoint behavior coherent without changing defaults.

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