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Roadmap

This roadmap communicates direction, not dates or delivery commitments. Each item still requires a scoped issue, review, and the quality gates in CONTRIBUTING.md.

v0.2.0-alpha.1: self-hostable research workspace

  • Complete community application: Python engine, FastAPI service, background worker, Next.js workspace, PostgreSQL migrations, and reference Caddy/Docker Compose deployment.
  • Literature discovery, library and review, projects, Data Lab, figures, surveys, text and spoken interviews, knowledge, brainstorming, and manuscript workflows.
  • Operator-supplied mail, scholarly-metadata, model, speech, search, and parser integrations with explicit configuration and processing gates.
  • Fail-closed local/TLS deployment configuration, bounded resources, backup and restore tooling, and authenticated erasure-journal replay.
  • Engine, API, web, contract, self-hosting, security, dependency, container, DCO, and release automation.
  • Apache-2.0 licensing with separate trademark terms. Billing, commercial plans, the hosted production deployment, and the marketing site remain separate.

Stabilize the public contract

  • Version the API and event-stream contracts with machine-readable compatibility fixtures.
  • Add synthetic browser end-to-end tests for onboarding, representative research workflows, public participation, retention, and account erasure.
  • Publish migration rehearsal fixtures for every supported upgrade path.
  • Define portable provenance envelopes for project inputs, provider settings, transformations, revisions, and output hashes.
  • Expand deterministic research exchange formats, beginning with bounded RIS/BibTeX import and export with explicit loss reporting.
  • Harden accessibility, CSP, browser storage, rate limits, and capability-link handling against an explicit threat model.

Operate with confidence

  • Test encrypted off-site backup and isolated restore recipes against released images on a schedule.
  • Publish multi-architecture container images only after both architectures pass the same smoke and migration gates.
  • Add portable object storage without weakening tenant isolation, erasure, or backup consistency.
  • Add deployment observability with privacy-preserving defaults and no request bodies or public capability URLs in logs.
  • Define a supported high-availability profile after measuring database, storage, worker, and provider failure modes.
  • Maintain adversarial provider evaluations for spoken and generated research workflows without storing participant content in public evidence.

Research-method depth

  • Add cross-database query translation conformance fixtures that surface syntax loss rather than hiding it.
  • Improve OpenAlex paging, retry, timeout, provenance, and redaction behavior.
  • Extend source-anchored screening, extraction, synthesis, and manuscript workflows with deterministic conflict behavior.
  • Add reproducible scientific visuals and statistical recipes only with explicit assumptions, validation fixtures, and method limits.
  • Improve interchange for consented survey and interview evidence using synthetic public fixtures.

Intentionally separate

  • Payments, pricing, subscriptions, checkout, and commercial-plan enforcement.
  • Hosted-service administration, private production configuration, customer data, production evidence, analytics, and provider credentials.
  • The SixSentences marketing and landing website.
  • Redistribution of proprietary corpora or scholarly full text without rights.
  • Any claim that software alone guarantees completeness, compliance, causality, or scientific validity.

Track implementation through GitHub issues and use discussions for ideas that are not yet ready to scope.