ROADMAP.md

Roadmap

Milestone 1: Research Skeleton

• Create the documentation-first repository structure.
• Define methodology, glossary, corpus, templates, and contribution rules.
• Establish the initial comparison matrix and confidence model.

Milestone 2: Tier 1 Reviews

• Review Roo Code.
• Review Cline.
• Review Claude Code.
• Extract first-pass evidence for completion, failure, state, compaction, and delegation patterns.

Milestone 3: Initial Pattern Catalog

• Tool-result loop.
• Guarded completion.
• Recoverable tool errors.
• Runtime state machine.
• Context compaction.

Milestone 4: Runtime Contract V1

• Define the core entities and lifecycle.
• Describe state transitions and completion gating.
• Position the layer relative to low-level SDKs and orchestration systems.

Milestone 5: Comparator Expansion

• Review GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Kilo Code, OpenCode, Continue, and OpenHands.
• Separate convergence from product-specific UX.

Milestone 6: Build-From-Zero Spec

• Finalize repository spec.
• Define reference interfaces.
• Write milestone plan and test strategy.
• Add minimal runtime pseudocode where the design is stable enough.