Public roadmap

What's next, and where Cloud fits.

Source of truth lives in ROADMAP.md. This page renders that file at build time, so it never drifts.

Roady — Roadmap

Public, opinionated, subject to change. Issues with the roadmap label are the live tracking surface.

The CLI + MCP server is and stays free, MIT, and self-hostable. The roadmap below describes what’s coming next on the open core, and the intended open-core boundary for a future hosted product.

Now (v0.12.x — shipped)

  • Live Kanban dashboard at /kanban with five status columns (Backlog / Ready / In Progress / Blocked / Done) and a /api/kanban JSON endpoint. Click or drag to drive task transitions; board reloads ~200 ms after every change via Server-Sent Events.
  • Cross-project Kanban at /org/kanban merges every project under the repo (root + sub-projects) into one board; cards carry their origin project and drops route to the right sub-project’s TaskService.
  • Action endpoints: POST /actions/task/{start,complete,block,unblock,reopen}, form-encoded, accept optional project_path + project for org routing.
  • Dashboard auth token (--auth-token flag or ROADY_DASHBOARD_TOKEN env). Bearer / Cookie / one-time ?token= handshake. Empty = public.

Recently (v0.11.x — shipped)

  • Nested sub-projects under .roady/projects/<name>/. One repo hosts many projects in parallel; coding agents switch context with --project / -P <name> (CLI) or project (MCP). Existing flat .roady/ repos unchanged. See docs/rfcs/0001-nested-projects.md.
  • roady discover and roady org status surface sub-projects.

Earlier (v0.10.x — shipped)

  • Eval harness over heuristic + AI planners + drift corpus
  • Task provenance: Origin (heuristic / ai / human) + source citations back to the doc that motivated each task
  • Provider streaming end-to-end (Anthropic / OpenAI / Gemini / Ollama) with MCP progress notifications and CLI withAIProgress integration
  • MCP tool consolidation (roady_tasks parameterised + deprecation aliases for the legacy task-listing tools)
  • roady_cost_estimate pre-flight token + USD projection per AI op
  • Unified roady notify namespace; messaging and webhook notif retained as deprecation aliases
  • AI command progress + clean SIGINT cancellation across the five AI CLI surfaces
  • roady demo for <1s aha; roady init --interactive default in TTY; empty-state ladder on roady status

Next (v0.13.x)

  • Cross-project task dependencies — @project:task-id syntax in DependsOn so an org-level plan can express “feature-payments task X waits on feature-auth task Y”.
  • Inline-edit on Kanban actions — owner / evidence / reason prompts on the dashboard instead of the current defaults (owner=dashboard, evidence="completed via dashboard").
  • Drift explainer follow-ups: synthesised “explain + propose patch” output that lands a PR-ready diff for accepted drift.
  • Per-task subagent dispatch: roady task start can hand a ready task to a subagent (Claude Code Task tool, Codex agent run, etc.) with the spec source attached and a deterministic completion hook.
  • Spec-to-PR loop: CI integration that auto-detects drift on PR merge and either accepts or opens a follow-up issue.
  • Touch-device Kanban DnD — HTML5 DnD is desktop-only today; mobile users still have the buttons.

Soon (v0.14+)

  • Cross-repo planning: a single .roady/ workspace can declare member repos, share spec context, and aggregate plan state.

Later

  • Plugin marketplace for syncers and notifiers, opinionated quality bar (signed binaries, contract tests must pass).
  • Native source citations through providers that surface them (Gemini grounding metadata, Anthropic citation API once stable).
  • Drift detection over code semantics, not just structure — diff the implemented behaviour against the spec’s natural-language requirement using a constrained AI checker.

Roady Cloud (future, no committed date)

Open-core boundary, intended scope:

  • Hosted MCP — managed multi-tenant MCP server so teams without a per-developer install can plug their agents into a shared workspace.
  • Multi-repo org dashboard with persistent storage and historical metrics across all member projects.
  • Audit log retention beyond what fits comfortably in events.jsonl, with structured search and export.
  • SSO / RBAC / SCIM for enterprise IdP integrations.
  • SOC 2 compliance posture for the hosted plane.

What stays open and free, forever:

  • The full CLI, MCP server, and every planning / drift / spec / notify / billing capability.
  • The .roady/ file format and all storage adapters.
  • Plugin contract tests + reference syncer plugins.

If Cloud lands, opting in is a roady cloud login away. Opting out is the existing local workflow with no behavioural change.

Out of scope

  • Becoming a Linear / Jira replacement. We integrate with them; we do not compete with them.
  • A web-based code editor or AI agent of our own.
  • Hosted general-purpose memory for non-coding workflows.

If you want any of these, Roady is the wrong tool — we are deliberately narrow.