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Roadmap

From shell to OS.

Every decision in Zenus — IntentIR, privilege tiers, the knowledge graph — points toward one destination: an operating system where intent replaces commands. This is the path.

Phase 1

Foundation Hardening

Complete

Completed March 2026

  • · Comprehensive error handling, circuit breakers, retry budgets
  • · Integration, E2E, and property-based testing — 89% coverage
  • · Performance metrics, cost tracking, real-time observability
  • · YAML config with hot-reload, profile system, HashiCorp Vault secrets
  • · Intent memoization cache (LRU + disk, 1h TTL)
  • · Async/await stack, true parallel execution, HTTP connection pooling
Phase 1.5

Pre-launch Hardening

In progress

Target: June 2026

  • · ✅ OWASP Top-10 audit — path traversal, injection, secret masking, temp-file permissions
  • · ✅ MCP server mode — expose all Zenus tools via stdio/SSE to Claude Code, Cline, Continue
  • · ✅ MCP client mode — connect external MCP servers, inject their tools into the registry
  • · ⏳ Voice TTS finalization — Piper streaming, voice profiles, fallback chain
  • · ⏳ Conversational flow — clarifying questions mid-execution, natural interruptions
  • · ⏳ Parallel execution benchmarks and live progress visualization
Phase 1.6

Agentic Harness

Complete

Completed April 2026

  • · Hook pipeline — PreToolUse / PostToolUse shell callbacks; pre-hooks can deny execution; fnmatch pattern matching
  • · Plan mode — /plan presents full execution plan for approval before any step runs; auto-approves read-only plans
  • · Skills registry — user-extensible slash commands from *.md files; bundled: commit, review-pr, simplify, explain, test-coverage
  • · Context compactor — /compact summarises history via LLM; auto-triggers at configurable token threshold
  • · Session store — persist and resume sessions; /session list/save/load/delete; chmod 600 files
  • · TaskOps — formal task lifecycle API; /tasks command; wraps background queue
  • · ScheduleOps — cron job registration; remote HTTP webhook triggers
  • · WorktreeOps — isolated git worktrees for risky work; auto-cleanup if no commits
  • · NotebookOps — read and edit Jupyter .ipynb cells without a kernel
  • · Developer tools — ToolSearch, AskUserQuestion, SleepTool, /doctor (10-check health table), /output-style
Phase 1.7

Resilience, Observability & MCP Modernization

Planned

Target: December 2026

  • · Per-step atomic checkpointing — resume mid-plan after crash with `zenus --resume`
  • · VIGIL self-healing layer — post-execution reflection detects failure patterns and patches tool invocations automatically
  • · HiAgent hierarchical compaction — compact per-completed-subgoal instead of one flat summary blob
  • · /context token breakdown — per-tool and per-type usage with optimization suggestions
  • · Session branching (/branch / /fork) — diverge from any checkpoint into a parallel session
  • · Effort / adaptive thinking levels — low / normal / high modes; ultrathink keyword for next turn
  • · OpenTelemetry distributed trace export — compatible with Langfuse, Logfire, AgentOps
  • · Concurrent input/output guardrails — fail-fast parallel validation layer
  • · MCP Streamable HTTP transport — replace SSE with the canonical March 2025 bidirectional spec
  • · MCP Elicitation — typed interactive user dialogs surfaced from within MCP tool calls
  • · ERL heuristics pool — post-session reflection generates reusable heuristics injected into future sessions
Phase 2

Intelligence Amplification

Planned

Target: September 2026

  • · Local fine-tuning on user workflow data (Llama, Mistral)
  • · Multi-agent collaboration (already partial) — deeper ResearcherAgent/ValidatorAgent loops
  • · Advanced knowledge graph queries across reboots
  • · Habit formation and proactive best-practice nudges
Phase 3

Multimodal & Accessibility

Planned

Target: December 2026

  • · Full voice pipeline — STT (done) + TTS + conversational context carryover
  • · OCR integration — read text from images, extract tables
  • · Web dashboard (FastAPI + React, WebSocket real-time updates)
  • · Mobile app (iOS/Android, remote execution, biometric auth)
Phase 4

Ecosystem & Integrations

Planned

Target: March 2027

  • · Cloud platforms — AWS, Azure, GCP automation
  • · Database operations — SQL generation, schema migrations
  • · Kubernetes and Docker Compose management
  • · VS Code and JetBrains IDE extensions
  • · Slack, Discord, and Telegram bots
Phase 5.5

New Concepts Under Exploration

Exploring

Revisit during Phase 5

  • · Intent versioning & replay — time-travel debugging across past executions
  • · Sandboxed intent simulation — blast-radius reports before destructive ops
  • · Plugin & extension system — `zenus plugin install <name>`, sandboxed execution
Phase 10

Operating System Transition

Long-term vision

Target: December 2028

  • · Kernel architecture design (Rust/Zig/C++ — TBD)
  • · Minimal kernel: boot loader, memory management, process scheduler
  • · VFS layer, disk and network drivers, basic TCP/IP
  • · Embedded Python interpreter — AI and ML ecosystem preserved
  • · Custom Linux distribution with intent as the primary interface
  • · Full migration path from v1.x with backward compatibility

Dates are maximum targets, not promises. Phases can shift earlier — they don't shift optimistically.