M0
Skeleton
Electron shell, preload bridge, a real PTY vertical, the floor, persistent app state.
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Roadmap
What is built, and what is not
The honest version. Milestones are only marked done when they close on a run rather than a checklist, audited by two independent passes — one verifying by execution, one checking the diff against the documented design.
Landed
Eight milestones, each closed on evidence
M1
One real agent
A single agent CLI under management on both planes — the process, and the record of what it did.
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M3
The floor becomes true
Stations that are facts rather than decoration, the circuit breaker armed, gates that hold work.
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M5
The accountable company
A review task is mechanically unclosable until its deck is archived. New dependencies are held at the choke point until a memo is verdict-ed.
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M5b
The learning company
The Stoa: registered sources at pinned commits, read-only research plans, briefs whose findings must cite a path or die.
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M6
The floor’s face
Citizens at specification, stations, act-coloured envelope flights.
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M7
The outward missions
Skeleton Crew and Front Office — the company watching something real.
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M8
The company you can leave running
Coverage baseline and the seam rule; a quit path that actually runs; visible, countable degradations; every hire in its own checkout and its own engine install.
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Next
M7b — the milestone that produces an installer
M8 is being finished first, deliberately. M7b ships signed builds of a company that improves itself, and shipping that before it could survive a restart, report that it had stopped, or keep its agents out of the architect’s working tree would have been worse than not shipping it.
M7b.1
Company GitHub identity
One Architect-owned machine identity so the company can act on GitHub as itself.
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M7b.2
Recursive Improvement profile
The self-improvement mission as a switchable crew.
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M7b.3
Pull requests with provenance
Approved proposals arrive as pull requests that cite the brief they descend from.
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M7b.4
Chat bridge
One Slack-compatible webhook so the company can reach you where you already are.
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M7b.5
Packaging and update check
Signed builds for macOS, Windows and Linux. This is the milestone that turns Ephesus into something you can install.
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M7b.6
Suites and exit review
The recursive chain proven end to end in CI.
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Deliberately not planned
Things that are not coming
A roadmap that only lists intentions is half a roadmap. These are decisions, not omissions.
A hosted or cloud version
Ephesus is a desktop application that drives CLIs on your machine. A hosted version would need to hold your credentials and run your code on someone else’s computer, which is a different product with a different threat model.
A plugin marketplace
Not while the core is pre-alpha. A stable extension surface is a promise, and promises are expensive to keep.
Autonomy without gates
There is no configuration that removes the human from irreversible actions. Gates can be tuned; they cannot be turned off.
Support for every agent CLI at once
Adapters are added one at a time, each backed by captured output from a real installation. An adapter written against imagined output is worse than no adapter.