core/ROADMAP.md

# Switchboard Core — Roadmap

## Current: v0.2.0 — SDK & Triggers

Fork of chat-switchboard, gutted to a pure extension platform. All AI/chat
features removed from the kernel. What remains is the minimum viable
platform that extensions build on.

### Retained kernel capabilities

- **Auth**: builtin (simple), mTLS, OIDC
- **Identity**: users, teams, groups, permissions (RBAC)
- **Packages**: surfaces, extensions, libraries, workflows
- **Starlark sandbox**: capability-gated modules
- **Storage**: object storage (PVC, S3), ext_data tables
- **Realtime**: WebSocket hub, presence, multi-replica HA
- **Ops**: audit log, notifications, maintenance goroutine

### Phase 0 (complete)

| Step | Status | Description |
|------|--------|-------------|
| 1. Module rename | ✅ | `chat-switchboard` → `switchboard-core` |
| 2. Delete packages | ✅ | 15 Go packages, 29 handler files removed |
| 3. Gut stores/models | ✅ | 40 → 20 store interfaces, kernel-only models |
| 4. Fresh migrations | ✅ | 9 files × 2 dialects, 27 tables |
| 5. Fix compilation | ✅ | `go build ./...` clean, 300+ stale route lines cut |
| 6. Fix tests | ✅ | 8 test packages pass, ~12K stale test lines pruned |
| 7. Frontend gut | ✅ | Shell + SDK only, 50+ files of chat/notes/projects code removed |
| 8. New ICD | ✅ | Full OpenAPI 3.0.3 spec — 160 operations across 22 tag groups |
| 9. CI/CD + Dockerfile | ✅ | Single unified image, FE/BE split removed, DB names updated, k8s var alignment fixes (resource quantities, image name, rollout deployment name) |
| 10. Smoke test | ✅ | K8s deploy live at switchboard.gobha.ai/test, nginx BASE_PATH fixed, login→admin flow verified, branding updated |

## v0.2.x — SDK & Triggers

The contract that extensions build against. Three trigger primitives,
SDK stabilization, and the first rebuilt extension (tasks).

### v0.2.0 — RBAC + Settings Cascade (complete)

| Step | Status | Description |
|------|--------|-------------|
| Admin → RBAC group | ✅ | `surface.admin.access` permission + Admins system group replaces `role == "admin"` checks. Admin bypass removed from permission middleware. |
| Settings cascade | ✅ | `user_overridable` flag, three-tier resolution (global → team → user), team settings API |
| ~~Settings override model~~ | ✅ | Shipped with settings cascade above |

### v0.2.1 — Default Surface + ICD

| Step | Status | Description |
|------|--------|-------------|
| Default surface routing | ✅ | `/` redirects to configurable default surface. No surfaces → admin. First install becomes default. Changeable in admin settings. |
| ICD (API contract) | ✅ | Full OpenAPI 3.0.3 spec — 160 operations, 22 tag groups, reusable component schemas. Served at `/api/docs`. |

### v0.2.2 — Event Bus + Triggers

| Step | Status | Description |
|------|--------|-------------|
| Event bus subscriptions | ✅ | Extensions register event patterns in manifest. Wired via `bus.Subscribe()` on startup. Async handler invocation. |
| Webhook triggers | ✅ | Inbound HTTP at `/api/v1/hooks/:package_id/:slug`. HMAC-SHA256 verification. Synchronous Starlark handler response. |
| Scheduled tasks | ✅ | User-created cron tasks with restricted sandbox (no raw HTTP, no DB table creation). Runs as creator identity. Templates from extensions. Dedicated schedules API. |
| Trigger admin API | ✅ | CRUD for triggers + schedules. Enable/disable, execution logs, per-package listing. |

### v0.2.3 — SDK + Task Extension

| Step | Status | Description |
|------|--------|-------------|
| SDK stabilization | ✅ | `sw.api.ext()`, `sw.storage`, `sw.theme.tokens`, `sw.ui`, `sw.slots`, `sw.actions` — six new SDK modules for extension development |
| Task extension | ✅ | Full task surface rebuilt as Starlark extension: CRUD API, kanban/list views, event triggers, webhook integration, notifications on completion |

### v0.2.4 — Shell Navigation + Schedules

| Step | Status | Description |
|------|--------|-------------|
| SDK Topbar | ✅ | `sw.shell.Topbar` — composable navigation bar (title + extension slot + bell + user menu). Surfaces get consistent nav for free. |
| Schedules surface | ✅ | New `packages/schedules/` wrapping kernel cron API. Table view, cron preview, enable/disable, manual run, execution logs. |
| Manifest icons | ✅ | `icon` field in manifest.json (emoji). Surfaces API returns icon. UserMenu renders per-surface icons. |
| UserMenu cleanup | ✅ | Removed dead Chat/Notes/Projects links. Menu driven by surfaces API. Core surfaces filtered. |
| isAdmin RBAC fix | ✅ | `can.js` isAdmin() now checks `surface.admin.access` grant instead of deprecated role column. |

### v0.2.5 — UI Polish + Dead Code Audit

| Step | Status | Description |
|------|--------|-------------|
| UI bug pass | ✅ | Reviewed admin, settings, login, welcome surfaces in light/dark themes. Fixed settings crash (models API undefined). Removed dead chat settings from both user and admin settings. |
| Dead code sweep | ✅ | Removed ~700 lines: orphaned CSS, dead Go types, stale event code, unused test helpers, dead settings UI (chat defaults, system prompt, default model, policies, web search, compaction, memory). |
| Template cleanup | ✅ | Removed stale CSS link tags and orphaned chat-pane.html. Updated doc comments throughout. |
| Package proof-of-concept status | ✅ | Created README.md for tasks + schedules with graduation criteria. Added missing manifest icons. |
| Welcome surface | ✅ | New fallback surface when no extensions installed. Topbar + welcome card with admin link. Replaces `/admin` as final redirect target. |
| Default surface routing | ✅ | Resolution chain: user preference → global config → first extension → `/welcome`. Users can set personal default in Settings > General. Admin sets global default in Admin > Settings. |
| Admin navigation | ✅ | Replaced Back button with UserMenu in admin topbar. Eliminates back-button infinite loop. |

### v0.2.6 — Admin Settings Audit

| Step | Status | Description |
|------|--------|-------------|
| Admin settings E2E | ✅ | All 7 admin settings sections verified (default surface, registration, banner, message bar, footer, vault, email). Dead code removed: `sectionCategory()` pruned of AI/routing/channel vestiges, `PublicSettings()` stripped of chat-era fields (system_prompt, retention_ttl, paste_to_file, allow_user_personas), dead `PolicyDefaults` removed (allow_raw_model_access, default_model), dead policy lookups removed (kb_direct_access), test seed data cleaned. |
| Packages surface | ✅ | Package list loads (17 total/17 enabled), type filters work, enable/disable visible, settings/export buttons present, core package (admin) protected. Removed dead `chat` from CORE_IDS. |

### v0.2.7 — User Settings Audit

| Step | Status | Description |
|------|--------|-------------|
| User settings E2E | ✅ | All 6 user settings sections verified (General, Appearance, Profile, Teams, Connections, Notifications). Dead code removed: BYOK nav section + state, personas gate filter, Message Font Size slider, `auth.permissions.changed` listener. localStorage key renamed `cs-appearance` → `sb-appearance` with one-time migration. |
| Visibility gating | ✅ | Dead BYOK/personas policy lookups removed from bootstrap and permissions handlers. `allow_user_byok` removed from `PublicSettings`. `PolicyDefaults` cleaned of `allow_user_byok` and `allow_user_personas`. Dead `msgFont` early-apply removed from base template. Stale policy-gating test assertions replaced. No empty nav sections remain. |

### v0.2.8 — Team Admin Settings Audit (Pass 1)

| Step | Status | Description |
|------|--------|-------------|
| Team admin E2E | ⬚ | Verify team member management, team settings cascade, role assignment (admin/member). Audit for dead code from pre-fork team features. First pass — validates current functionality before v0.3.x adds team roles. |
| User settings team tab | ⬚ | Verify the Teams section in user settings — team list, join/leave, team-scoped settings. |

### v0.2.9 — Builtin Extension Retirement

| Step | Status | Description |
|------|--------|-------------|
| Retire builtin seeder | ⬚ | Stop auto-seeding chat-centric extensions (csv-table, diff-viewer, js-sandbox, katex-renderer, mermaid-renderer, regex-tester). Remove `SeedBuiltinPackages`, Dockerfile COPY, and `extensions/builtin/` directory. These extensions are not OBE — they're dormant until a chat surface exists to consume them. |
| Convert to regular packages | ⬚ | Repackage the 6 extensions as standard `.pkg` archives in `packages/`. Add chat dependency metadata to manifests so they can be installed when the chat extension ships post-MVP. No auto-install — explicit install only, matching the distribution model. |

## v0.3.x — Workflow Architecture

Workflows are the core platform capability. This series implements the
full multi-step automation system with team role integration and
finalizes the extension lifecycle model.

### v0.3.0 — Workflow Design + Schema

| Step | Status | Description |
|------|--------|-------------|
| Extension lifecycle | ⬚ | Define permanent vs PoC extensions. Package graduation criteria. Dependency policy. What ships with core vs what's installed separately. |
| Workflow design session | ⬚ | Define what "workflow" means in the extension-first model. Determine if the existing `workflows` table/handler survives, gets rebuilt, or gets removed. Document the Starlark contract for multi-step automation. See `docs/DESIGN-WORKFLOW-REDESIGN-0.2.6.md`. |
| Team roles | ⬚ | Different roles per team responsible for different workflow stages. Role-based stage assignment, multi-party validation (2-party sign-off at stage boundaries). |
| Trigger composition model | ⬚ | How do triggers, schedules, and workflows compose? Event chains, conditional branching, error handling. Design doc before code. |
| Settings audit pass 2 | ⬚ | Focused audit of team admin + user settings for workflow/team-role changes applied in this series. Validates new team role UI, stage assignment settings, workflow preferences. |

## v0.4.0 — Notes Surface

Obsidian-style rich-text notes rebuilt as an installable surface package.
Zero platform special-casing. Proves the full extension stack E2E.

- Notes as `.pkg` archive
- Rich text editor (ProseMirror or similar)
- Folder tree, backlinks, tags — all extension-provided
- Markdown import/export

## v0.5.0 — MVP

Extension and operations tracks converge. First externally usable release.

- Package registry (browse, install, update, uninstall)
- Package distribution model (no auto-install; explicit install only)
- Health monitoring dashboard
- Backup/restore tooling
- Documentation site

## Post-MVP

- Chat extension (provider registry, streaming, personas, tool system)
- Rich media extensions: image generation, code sandbox, STT/TTS
- Desktop app (Tauri or Electron)
- Sidecar tier: container-based extensions
- Federation: cross-instance package sharing
- Plugin marketplace with signing and review
- Mermaid diagrams extension (nice-to-have)

## Design Decisions Log

| Decision | Rationale |
|----------|-----------|
| Tasks → extension | Scheduler was the most entangled kernel component (~3,400 lines). Rebuilding as extension validates the trigger system and removes the worst compilation debt. Three trigger primitives (time, webhook, event) replace the monolithic scheduler. |
| Sessions removed | Channel-based sessions coupled to deleted chat system. Workflow instances need new storage model — either ext_data tables or a dedicated kernel table. |
| `chat_only` → `custom` | Stage mode `chat_only` implied chat as a kernel concept. Renamed to `custom` which delegates to a surface package, proving extension composability. |
| Providers removed from kernel | Provider configs, model catalog, routing policies — all moved to extension track. Kernel provides credential storage (connections) and the Starlark `provider.complete` module as the interface. |
| Kernel permissions simplified | From 16 chat-centric permissions to 6 platform permissions. Extensions define their own capability requirements in manifests. |
| Preact+htm retained | 3KB runtime, no build step, works for extension authors without bundler config. KISS. |
| Single Docker image | Drop the frontend/backend split. Go binary + assets + migrations in one image. Simpler deployment, fewer moving parts. |
| Admin → RBAC group | The `role` column is pre-RBAC. v0.2.0 replaces it with a seeded "Admins" group + `surface.admin.access` grant. All users auto-join "Everyone" group. Admin middleware becomes a grant check, not a role check. |
| Settings cascade | RBAC controls scope auth (who can set at what level). `user_overridable` flag controls whether lower scopes can override higher. Two orthogonal axes, composes cleanly with extension manifests. |
| No new migrations pre-MVP | Edit existing migration SQL files in place. No migration chains until schema is in production. |
| Notes over Editor | First surface is Obsidian-style notes (rich text, folders, backlinks) instead of a code editor. Notes is a stronger E2E proof — it exercises ext_data, storage, and the SDK more fully than a pure-browser CM6 editor. |
| No built-in auto-install | Extensions ship in the repo but are not auto-installed. Distribution model TBD — explicit install only. Keeps the kernel clean and avoids opinionated defaults. |
| Chat → post-MVP | Chat extension (providers, streaming, personas) is valuable but not MVP-critical. The platform must prove itself with simpler surfaces first. Chat moves to post-MVP track. |
| Two trigger tiers | Event + webhook triggers are extension-declared (manifest contract, full sandbox). Scheduled tasks are user-created ad-hoc (restricted sandbox — no raw HTTP, no DB table creation, connections-only outbound). Separation keeps extension contracts static and user automation safe. |
| Scheduled task identity | Tasks run as their creator (RBAC-scoped). Admin-created tasks can opt into system context. Creator deactivation pauses the schedule. Ensures audit trail and permission boundaries. |