/ROADMAP.md

Go Micro Roadmap

Go Micro is an agent harness and service framework for Go. A harness is the runtime around an agent — the tools, memory, guardrails, workflows, state, discovery, and protocols it needs to operate a system rather than just answer a prompt. An agent is a distributed system — it discovers services, calls them, holds state, and recovers from failure — so the harness is the runtime services already have, and building an agent is building a service. The roadmap has two jobs: make agentic development excellent, and make the developer experience around it excellent.

The full, current roadmap lives at go-micro.dev/docs/roadmap (source). The highlights:

Where we are (v6)

Services, agents (plan/delegate, guardrails, memory, tool middleware, checkpoint/resume, and OpenTelemetry run spans), durable flows, the MCP and A2A gateways (both directions, including A2A streaming, push notifications, and multi-turn continuation), x402 paid tools, secure by default.

Principles

1. Build into what people run, never a separate product (no hosted platform, no enterprise edition, no VC).
2. CLI-first — the CLI is the experience; UI must earn its place, never bloat.
3. The getting-started flow is a contract: 0→1 (scaffold → run → call) and 0→hero (a working multi-agent system) must always work and are verified on every change.
4. Interaction matters as much as running — chatting with agents, inspecting runs and history, end to end.
5. Battle-tested: works across every provider, fails safely, observable.

Now — hardening

• Cross-provider conformance — the same agent scenario across all seven providers, gated on keys, on a schedule.
• Failure & resilience — timeouts, rate limits, cancellation, deadline/context propagation, retry/backoff.
• Getting-started contract — define and CI-verify the 0→1 and 0→hero flows.

Shipped agent depth

• Durable agent loop — opt-in Checkpoint support lets agent Ask and streaming runs persist, list pending work, and resume without replaying completed tool calls. Human-input pauses resume through explicit input helpers.
• Agent observability — agent RunInfo now feeds OpenTelemetry spans/events across runs, model turns, tool calls, retries, delegation lineage, and resume checkpoints.

Next — agentic depth

• Streaming — broaden provider-backed ai.Stream coverage and keep chat/A2A streaming end to end.
• Resume operations polish — keep improving CLI/docs breadcrumbs for finding pending agent runs and deciding whether to call resume, resume-input, or stream resume in production.
• Observability hardening — keep span attributes and run inspection coherent across agents, flows, and gateways as more providers and workflow paths are exercised.

Later

• Memory management (summarization, retrieval/RAG); human-in-the-loop pause/resume; richer A2A live-stream reconnection (tasks/resubscribe) and input-required handoffs.

Developer experience (ongoing)

• A seamless CLI inner loop (scaffold → run → chat → inspect → deploy); UI discipline (trim what isn't great); a maintained real-world example that doubles as the 0→hero reference; docs kept in lockstep with the code.

How it's sustained

The framework is the product, funded by sponsorship from those who run it — not a hosted service, enterprise tier, or venture funding. See the v6 story.

Contributing & feedback

Pick an item, open an issue to discuss the approach, and submit a PR. Or join the Discord. Include tests, run make test and make lint.

Version support

• v6 — active development (current).
• v5 — security fixes only.
• v4 and earlier — end of life.

Major versions (v5 → v6) carry breaking changes; minors are backward-compatible. See the v5 → v6 migration guide.