ROADMAP.md

🗺️ ARCA Roadmap

This document outlines the planned trajectory for ARCA.

✅ Phase 1: Core Protocol & CLI (Complete)

• 📦 Decentralized manifests (arca-manifest.yaml)
• 🔗 Git and Local providers
• 🔒 Deterministic locking (.arca-assets.lock)
• 🔀 Multi-assistant projections
• 🧹 LF-normalization & SHA-256 verification
• 🌳 Recursive dependency resolution
• 🧪 Workflow to run tests when PR is created

🔧 Phase 2: Enhanced Tooling

• 🖥️ Native VS Code extension for interactive asset selection
• 📡 Command to retrieve manifest file dynamically
• 🪝 Support for new asset kinds: hooks, agents, etc.
• 🍺 Installer generation (Homebrew, apt automation)
• 🔌 MCP tool verification during skill installation
• 🔄 Automatic migration tools for legacy asset formats

🌍 Phase 3: Community & Registry

• 📇 Central (optional) index of trusted asset sources
• ✅ "Verified" badge system for manifests
• 🌐 Asset discovery UI (web-based)

🤖 Phase 4: AI Native Integrations

• 🕵️ Asset auto-discovery subagent (MCP server with indexing/vector search)
• 🔗 Direct integration with Agentic frameworks (LangChain, AutoGPT)
• ⚡ Dynamic asset loading during agent runtime
• 🔮 Natural Language asset discovery

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