/.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. Fix AtlasCloud plan-delegate incomplete delegate tool call (#4487) — The adoption-facing inner-loop contract is now shipped, and there are no open codex PRs in flight, so the top remaining gap returns to a Now-phase resilience failure in the lived services → agents → workflows story: AtlasCloud can create task side effects, then stop on an incomplete repaired delegate tool call before notification/delegation completes. This is higher value than a single marker wording failure because it protects the cross-runtime handoff after real side effects and keeps the 0→hero/plan-delegate harness operable across providers.
2. Fix AtlasCloud agent harness missing conformance marker (#4486) — Once the delegate repair path is stable, close the remaining scheduled live-conformance gap where AtlasCloud's agent harness exhausts retries without emitting the required marker. This is still a Now-phase provider-conformance item, but narrower: it verifies the core agent/model+tool contract rather than the full services → agents → workflows handoff.

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