Roadmap check-in: priorities after the July 10 batch

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Today's agent-driven batch landed a lot at once, so this is a natural point to agree on what's next.

Landed on main today

• Rematch after online games (Rematch button after online games #12, PR Rematch after online games (closes #12) #22)
• iOS build + UI tests in CI (Run the iOS build and UI tests in CI #15, PR Run the iOS build and UI tests in CI (closes #15) #23; toolchain fix in PR Fix iOS CI: compile-gate the Liquid Glass button styles #24)
• Engine: persistent transposition table + pondering (Engine: pondering and a persistent transposition table across moves #16, PR Engine: persistent transposition table and pondering #25)
• vapor/jwt 5 migration (Migrate to vapor/jwt 5 (JWTKit 5) #21, PR Migrate to vapor/jwt 5 (JWTKit 5) #42)
• Display-name editing, sounds, board themes (Let players edit their display name #9/Add sound effects for moves, captures, and game end #10/Board themes: alternative square color presets #11, PR Display-name editing, game sounds, board themes (closes #9, #10, #11) #20)

In flight

• Selectable time controls (Selectable time controls (bullet / blitz / rapid) #13) — agent implementing

Proposed priority order for the rest

1. Platform hygiene: CI: build the app with Xcode 26 so the Liquid Glass styles actually compile #44 (CI on Xcode 26 so the glass styles compile), CI: boot chess-server on the runner so the online E2E test stops skipping itself #35 (boot the server in CI so the E2E test runs), Adopt Swift 6 language mode across the three packages #45 (Swift 6 language mode), Engine: bound the persistent transposition table's memory #46 (bound the TT memory).
2. Product features that build on today's work: Rematch: add a decline action and offer expiry #39 (rematch decline/expiry), Matchmaking: pair players by rating, widening the window over wait time #43 (matchmaking by rating), Show an active online game on the home screen (resume banner) #29 (resume banner), Show server-side game history (online games from any device) #30 (server-side game history), Player profiles: tap a leaderboard row for record and recent games #33 (profiles), Selectable bot difficulty for offline games #36 (bot difficulty), Localize the app with a String Catalog #34 (localization), Rate-limit auth endpoints and clean up abandoned guest accounts #32 (auth rate limiting).

Note on #37 (swift-nio-http2 security advisory): investigated — the patched 1.44.1 release doesn't exist upstream yet, so nothing can be bumped; the issue now tracks the upstream release instead of being actionable first.

Two things only the repo owner can unblock

• Sign in with Apple for account recovery #14 Sign in with Apple — code scaffolding is starting now that Migrate to vapor/jwt 5 (JWTKit 5) #21 merged, but Apple team ID / bundle ID / entitlement / key registration decisions are needed to finish.
• Deploy chess-server publicly and point release builds at it #28 public server deployment — needs a hosting choice; several features above (Show server-side game history (online games from any device) #30, Player profiles: tap a leaderboard row for record and recent games #33) get much more interesting once release builds point at a real server.

Reply with reordering or vetoes; otherwise the agents will keep working roughly top-down.

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Cross-linking from #47 (now consolidated here — two orchestrating sessions posted roadmap threads within minutes of each other): three follow-up issues were filed today after fact-checking against the code, and they slot into the priorities above: #39 (rematch decline + offer expiry, good first issue), #43 (rating-window matchmaking — pairing is currently pure FIFO), #46 (bound the persistent transposition table's memory on mobile, follow-up to PR #25).

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Duplicate of #47, which came first — consolidated there (the execution-order proposal and status corrections from this post now live in a comment on #47). Closing.

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Housekeeping: two parallel sessions each closed the other's roadmap post as a duplicate at the same time, so for a few minutes both were closed. Resolved: this discussion (#48) is the canonical roadmap — reopened, body kept current (JWT 5 merged via PR #42; the swift-nio-http2 advisory #37 is blocked on an unreleased upstream patch). #47 stays closed as the duplicate and links here. Sorry for the noise.