standards/ROADMAP.md

ROADMAP — Standards

Longer-term backlog for the standards repo: future agents, commands, and cross-repo standards to hash out and build later. Near-term status lives in AGENTS.md → ## Current state. Items here are parked, not committed — we iterate on them when we pick one up. Newly captured cross-repo ideas land in INBOX.md first and graduate here on triage.

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1. Cross-repo quality-gate standard (linters / pre-commit hooks / CI)

Why: with agents writing the code, these stop being developer conveniences and become the falsifiable rails that let an agent check its own work — write, get told exactly what's wrong, iterate, verify. The standard is authored here; application is per-repo (in each repo's AGENTS.md), because what's best-in-class differs by language/stack.

The principle to encode: every code repo should give its agent a fast, deterministic, agent-runnable feedback loop — the subset of checks that run without a human and can't be skipped. Tier it:

• Linter/formatter — per-stack (e.g. ruff/black, eslint/prettier, gofmt). Fast, runs on every change; the agent fixes before moving on.
• Pre-commit hook — the unskippable gate: runs the linter + quick tests and blocks the commit if they fail. This is the highest-ROI piece and the first to add.
• CI on push — the heavier rebuild + full test suite. Lower priority for solo repos on Gitea (Gitea Actions exists); add when a repo has real collaborators or releases.

This repo's own first instance: it's Markdown + symlinks, so its quality gate isn't a code linter — it's a pre-commit hook that runs the structural checks this repo already has an agent for: relative-symlink integrity (AGENTS.md ← CLAUDE.md, docs/guides/* ← .claude/rules/*, the adapters/ directory symlinks) and internal-link validity. The portability-checker agent encodes the invariants; the hook makes the deterministic subset unskippable. Build this as the worked example of the standard. Concrete checks to start with: (a) the type enum is identical across guides/capture.md, INBOX.md, and AGENTS.md; (b) CLAUDE.md is a relative symlink resolving to AGENTS.md; (c) every adapters/claude/{commands,agents}/*.md wrapper has a matching guides/<name>.md substance file (no wrapper-without-guide drift).

Open questions: one shared hook framework (pre-commit.com) vs. hand-rolled per repo; how the standard gets adopted into a repo (a /harden command that installs the right linter+hook for the detected stack?); whether to define a minimal "agentic-ops baseline" checklist doc alongside the other four standards docs.

2. roundup — cross-project status command ✅ BUILT

Built and live: guides/roundup.md + adapters/claude/commands/roundup.md. Fans out a read-only reader per repo over AGENTS.md/ROADMAP.md, folds in the inbox, and synthesizes one priority-grouped to-do list across all projects; reads and reports only (prioritizing stays with the user). Remaining option: output is shown inline by default — decide later whether to also persist a STATUS.md in the standards repo for diffing over time like EVALUATION.md.

3. Deterministic inbox surfacing — SessionStart hook (optional upgrade over the portable line)

Why: the portable mechanism (the inbox-check line in every repo's AGENTS.md) is model-interpreted and therefore skippable. A Claude SessionStart hook that greps INBOX.md for the current repo's tag and prints matching items is deterministic and unskippable — the same quality-gate logic as item 1, applied to capture.

Tradeoff: hooks are Claude-specific and per-repo, so they don't travel to other vendors. Decision already made: keep the AGENTS.md line as the belt-and-suspenders portable default, and offer the hook as an opt-in upgrade for repos where you want the guarantee. Possible form: a snippet the quality-gate /harden flow (item 1) installs alongside the linter hook.

4. Thread the inbox-check line into bootstrapping

Why: right now adding the portable inbox-check line to a repo is manual. It should be automatic so every repo inherits it.

• Add the line to the AGENTS.md template in retrofit-playbook.md (Step 1, prompt A) and to the /retrofit guide's Phase 4.
• Thread the canonical .gitignore block (now in portability.md → "What git tracks") into retrofit-playbook.md Step 0 and the new-repo bootstrap, so every repo's committed .gitignore carries it rather than relying on a global excludesfile.
• Consider a one-time sweep command that adds it to every existing repo's AGENTS.md.
• Decide whether the canonical wording lives in how-i-work.md (so it's truly universal) or stays a per-repo line.

5. new-project — idea → scoped → scaffolded → Gitea repo ✅ BUILT

Built and live: guides/new-project.md + adapters/claude/commands/new-project.md. The inverse of /retrofit — main-thread and collaborative, it turns a captured (new) inbox idea into a repo that's standards-compliant from line one. Phases: locate the inbox seed → workshop the scope (the high-value, interactive step) → brief + scaffolding-plan sign-off → scaffold (AGENTS.md + CLAUDE.md symlink, ROADMAP.md, README.md, canonical .gitignore, .claude/, minimal stack skeleton; inbox-check line tagged (<name>)) → publish (git init + commit, Gitea manual-create gate, remote + push) → close the loop (remove the (new) item from INBOX.md) → portability-checker verify.

Open questions, resolved: (a) Gitea repo creation is a manual web-UI gate (no API token — matches retrofit-playbook Part 4); (b) the standards layer is always scaffolded, the stack skeleton stays minimal, and the linter/pre-commit quality gate is deferred to the future /harden (item 1) rather than hand-rolled; (c) the workshop does seed the first ## Current state with the first milestone.

Remaining option: once /harden (item 1) exists, call it as the scaffold's last step so a new repo gets its stack's quality gate installed automatically.

6. Cross-repo git-hygiene audit + remediation ✅ DONE (2026-06-14)

Fanned out one read-only portability-checker per git repo under ~/Projects. No safety issues anywhere: zero tracked .env / .DS_Store / *.local.json, and every in-repo symlink is relative. The gaps were consistency: the inbox-check line was missing in all 7 non-standards repos, and only standards had a complete canonical .gitignore.

Fixed — 6 repos, one commit each, pushed (CRM, premier-gunner, recap, spark-control, Workout-log; recap-relay committed locally — see residuals): added the repo-tagged inbox-check line and normalized .gitignore.

Standard improved by the audit: the documented canonical .claude/ block was allow-by-default and would have un-ignored premier-gunner's password-bearing .claude/launch.json. Switched portability.md (and the two retrofit summaries) to a deny-by-default .claude/* + allow-list of the shared wiring.

Residual follow-ups:

• ten31-transcripts (MAJOR) — needs its own mini-retrofit. Despite the name it's an active Xcode/Swift app with no .claude/ at all. Scaffold .claude/settings.json; decide whether to reorganize its flat docs/NN_*.md into docs/guides/ + .claude/rules/ symlinks. Too big for the mechanical pass — captured to INBOX.md (tagged (ten31-transcripts)) with step-by-step instructions, for pickup on the next /triage in that repo.
• recap-relay remote ✅ Gitea origin added + pushed in a later session.
• premier-gunner/s9pk/.gitignore lacks the secrets/Claude lines (low priority; the root .gitignore covers .env tree-wide already).
• Many non-git folders under ~/Projects are unprotected work (discount-watcher, expense-organizer, giga, heart-rate, licensing, one-river, satoshi-sleep, START9 PACKAGING, ten31-agents/-command-center/-signal-engine, timestamp-converter, timestamp-newspaper, website-landing, Grand-Cayman-paddleboard). Each needs git init + retrofit, or an explicit "scratch, don't track" decision.
• start-os is an external upstream (Start9Labs/start-os) — out of scope, no action.