# Improvement Roadmap

A practical priority view over the current backlog.

## Now

These are the highest-leverage next improvements.

1. **Fix subagent reliability and completion-event spam handling**
   - Why now: it directly affects trust, delegation reliability, and daily usability.
   - Related task: `task-20260304-2215-subagent-reliability`

2. **Add eval / regression harness for core assistant behavior**
   - Why now: prevents regressions in memory recall, messaging, search routing, and subagent behavior.
   - Related task: `task-20260311-1917-eval-harness`

3. **Add calendar access/backend for proactive scheduling help**
   - Why now: biggest functional capability gap and prerequisite for the calendar-first daily brief direction.
   - Related task: `task-20260311-1908-calendar-access`

4. **Add monitoring / alert ingestion**
   - Why now: improves signal routing so important failures reach attention without manual checking.
   - Related task: `task-20260311-1917-alert-ingestion`

5. **Add standard operating playbooks for recurring workflows**
   - Why now: converts repeated ad-hoc ops/debugging into consistent, low-noise workflows.
   - Related task: `task-20260311-1917-operating-playbooks`

## Soon

Strong follow-ups once the Now layer is healthier.

1. **Add email/inbox access for triage and briefing**
   - Related task: `task-20260311-1908-email-access`

2. **Add meeting-prep / briefing pipeline**
   - Depends partly on calendar/docs access.
   - Related task: `task-20260311-1917-meeting-prep-pipeline`

3. **Improve notification routing policy**
   - Related task: `task-20260311-1917-notification-routing`

4. **Add local RAG over docs and manuals**
   - Related task: `task-20260311-1917-local-docs-rag`

5. **Add broader personal document/search corpus**
   - Related task: `task-20260311-1908-doc-search-corpus`

6. **Add local code search / indexing across more repos**
   - Related task: `task-20260311-1917-local-code-indexing`

7. **Add change / audit log for external actions**
   - Related task: `task-20260311-1917-external-action-audit-log`

## Later

Useful, but lower urgency or more dependent on other foundations.

- stronger GitHub tooling
- Google Workspace access
- local OCR / PDF extraction
- notes-system connector
- structured data connectors
- package / update intelligence
- dependency / credential inventory
- safer sandboxed execution helpers
- stronger local media pipeline
- lightweight decision log
- lightweight people-context layer
- Home Assistant / smart-home integration
- password-manager / secret lookup integration (high trust surface; do carefully)
- council personality depth / council naming revisit

## Guiding principle

Prefer improvements that increase:
- reliability
- trust
- signal quality
- repeatability
- leverage across many workflows

Prefer lower priority for:
- shiny integrations with narrow payoff
- high-trust additions without clear need
- tools that add maintenance burden before they add daily value
