/.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. Make AtlasCloud delegated notification side effects exact-once (#4163) — the prior AtlasCloud schema/fallback fixes closed #4157, but the latest live provider-conformance signal shows a remaining Now-phase reliability seam: the plan-delegate harness can produce duplicate delegated notify side effects before the exact-once guard fails. Fixing this first keeps the same services → agents → workflows story portable across providers without changing public APIs.
2. Add micro loop quickstart wayfinding to README and website docs (#4169) — the blog now says the autonomous loop is shipped and reusable, but the lived developer on-ramp still depends on finding the launch post. Surface micro loop init / micro loop verify, token setup, branch protection, and CI-as-gate expectations in durable docs so the harness-building-itself story is adoptable, not just announced.

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