Loop: planning review #93

[asim]

Autonomous planner pass. Direction: .github/loop/NORTH_STAR.md; queue: .github/loop/PRIORITIES.md.

[asim]

@codex

Act as the architect — the founder lens — for go-micro, running continuously alongside the builders. Hold the whole picture: how the harness, the framework, and the developer UX fit together, what is in flight and what just merged, what to prioritize next, and what is missing or has drifted.

(1) TRACK STATE — scan recently merged PRs and open codex PRs/issues to see what shipped and what is being built right now, so the queue reflects reality (drop done items, don't re-queue in-flight work).

(2) ASSESS against the North Star in .github/loop/NORTH_STAR.md — lead with its Mission (make building an agent as easy as building a service, on one runtime) and re-derive alignment from the CANON: the blog under internal/website/blog, the README, and the website (read these, don't rely on the North Star alone), then ROADMAP.md (Now → Next → Later). Judge every priority against the mission: does it make the services → agents → workflows lifecycle simpler, more cohesive, and more operable? CURRENT GOAL — developer adoption: weight the on-ramp (walkable first-agent tutorial, discoverable examples, docs wayfinding, install friction, debugging, 0→1 and 0→hero) at least as highly as internal hardening; do not let the queue fill entirely with internal depth work. Look at coherence and seams across the core packages (agent, ai, flow, gateway/mcp, gateway/a2a, model, server, store, registry) and the dev inner loop (scaffold → run → chat → inspect → deploy). Flag drift in either direction: work drifting from the mission, or the North Star/website drifting from the lived story in the blog.

(3) MAINTAIN THE QUEUE in .github/loop/PRIORITIES.md — a SINGLE ordered list, highest-value first, each item linking a scoped, CI-verifiable issue (#N); roadmap phase is the primary ordering, internal findings (cohesion gaps, DX friction, missing pieces) interleaved by value. For any prioritized gap with no issue, file one: gh issue create --label codex --label enhancement --title "<scoped task>" --body "<goal, scope, acceptance criteria>".

OUTPUT: post a concise assessment as a comment on this issue (#4208) — what shipped, what's in flight, the top risks/gaps, and the reasoning behind the ranking. If the ranking actually changed, open ONE PR for .github/loop/PRIORITIES.md: git switch -c codex/planner-4208, git push -u origin codex/planner-4208, gh pr create --base master --label codex --title "<title>" --body "<summary, Closes #4208>", then gh pr merge --squash --auto --delete-branch. If the queue is already accurate, just close this issue (gh issue close 4208).

Do NOT make breaking public-API or architectural changes yourself — surface those in the assessment as notes for the human, never as auto-merged changes. Open the PR yourself from the shell with gh; do not use the make_pr tool (it is a no-op stub).

[asim]

Planner assessment (2026-07-07):

• Shipped: Verify installed first-agent on-ramp #4207 verified the installed first-agent on-ramp, closing harness: verify installed first-agent on-ramp commands #4197; Enforce idempotent plan-delegate notifications #4200 closed the exact-once plan/delegate notification seam; recent docs/loop work kept the micro loop and queue wayfinding aligned.
• In flight: open codex PRs are docs: refresh planner priorities for 4208 #4209 (this queue refresh, auto-merge enabled), docs: refresh planner priorities for 4192 #4193 (older planner refresh that is now superseded by Enforce idempotent plan-delegate notifications #4200/Verify installed first-agent on-ramp #4207/agent: stabilize AtlasCloud guarded delegate conformance #4206), and blog: draft v6.3.15 update #4022 (coherence blog draft). Open codex issues that still matter are agent: stabilize AtlasCloud guarded delegate conformance #4206, agent: propagate cancellation and retry signals through model calls #4175, and agent: resume durable runs from checkpoints #4202.
• Top risks/gaps: live provider conformance is the immediate risk because agent: stabilize AtlasCloud guarded delegate conformance #4206 shows AtlasCloud/minimax-m3 can pass most of the harness while missing the guarded delegate path; next is provider cancellation/retry semantics (agent: propagate cancellation and retry signals through model calls #4175), then durable agent checkpoint resume (agent: resume durable runs from checkpoints #4202).
• Ranking rationale: the North Star says make agents as easy as services on one runtime, and the README/website/blog story is now coherently centered on the CLI on-ramp plus services → agents → workflows. Because the on-ramp item shipped, the queue should not re-run it; the highest-value open Now-phase work is making the lived provider behavior match the harness promise without public-API changes. Durable checkpoint resume stays next-phase after provider reliability is stable.

Updated .github/loop/PRIORITIES.md in #4209 and enabled auto-merge.

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Summary

• Refreshed the architecture loop queue by removing the completed first-agent on-ramp item and promoting the open AtlasCloud guarded-delegate conformance recurrence as the highest-priority Now-phase risk.
• Kept provider cancellation/retry propagation second and durable agent checkpoint resume third, preserving roadmap phase ordering while reflecting the current shipped/in-flight state.
• Opened PR docs: refresh planner priorities for 4208 #4209 (https://github.com/micro/go-micro/pull/4209), enabled merge handling via gh pr merge --squash --auto --delete-branch, and posted the requested planner assessment on issue Loop: planning review #93 #4208.

Testing

• ✅ git diff --check
• ✅ go build ./...
• ⚠️ go test ./... — failed due environment loopback restrictions from envoy (Loopback targets forbidden) in gRPC loopback tests, not due this docs-only change.
• ✅ golangci-lint run ./...
• ✅ git status --short
• ✅ gh pr create --base master --label codex --title "docs: refresh planner priorities for 4208" --body "..."
• ✅ gh pr merge 4209 --squash --auto --delete-branch

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