/.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 CI-verified smallest first-agent transcript (#4639) — PR #4637 closed #4634 by making first-agent chat wayfinding part of the docs guard, so the next developer-adoption gap is proving the fastest provider-free agent success path itself. The README, website getting-started path, examples index, zero-to-hero guide, and v6.3.15 blog now all point at examples/first-agent before the richer support-desk 0→hero app; make that smallest transcript and its next chat/inspect/debug breadcrumbs CI-verifiable so a new developer can get from scaffold/run to a real service-backed agent without keys before graduating to 0→hero.
2. Harden atlascloud plan-delegate plan persistence (#4630) — Keep this Now/Next hardening item close behind adoption work: recent AtlasCloud repair fixes reduced provider brittleness, but plan/delegate durability still has a provider-specific persistence seam. Scope it to the existing plan/delegate harness and CI-verifiable behavior so services → agents → workflows remains reliable without broad public-API or architecture changes.

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