Roadmap: objectives, key results and dated milestones
2026-09-02 17:50 UTC. Source of truth: ROADMAP.md on main; dates come from the tickets that own them. The weekly report marks each row met, moved or missed from Sunday 2026-09-06.
6
objectives to the week-four re-plan
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dated milestones, 2 Sep to 24 Nov
5
met on day one (gate, packs, three end states, records PR)
1
at risk this week: the weekly report PR (#19)
INB-12
Joel's call: the friends-and-family date (default 24 Nov)
The horizon
Week one is the week of 1 September. The MVP is the friends-and-family link (MASTER-PLAN ยง4: a link people load and are impressed that they are in the real world, socialise, fight, explore). Its date is yours: INB-12 proposes week twelve, 2026-11-24, as the planning default, with the week-four re-plan on 30 September allowed to move it on measured cost and the blind verdicts. Everything below is cut to that default.
Milestones on one timeline
platformcontractsearth-dataevallabstile-compilerJoel / parent filled = met, hollow = open, dashed = at risk; one key milestone labelled per lane, hover any dot for its ticket, the table below has them all
Objectives and key results
O1. The real world, judged
- Austin block compiled at v0 on real earth-data, products on the dev store, by 11 Sep (CMP-6).
- First blind pair judged on the rig by 9 Sep as a diagnostic (EVAL-4); verdicts count after EVAL-7's containerised judge.
- Compiled Austin paired blind against the frozen alpha by 16 Sep via the preview render (CMP-16, EVAL-9).
- Zero judged frames without an admissibility receipt from the first counting wave.
O2. Contracts pin everything
- C1 and C2 v0 on main by 5 Sep (PLAT-15 PR1); remaining PRs by 12 Sep.
- C3 and C9 v0 cut together by 16 Sep (PLAT-45, PLAT-38), the job's refusal in the product manifest.
- C5 M1 within 32 to 40 builder-hours of common v0; C8 with the three release fields before the first release train; C7 with EVAL-4; C4 token and C10 before world-sim's first session.
- Two fixture packs certified by two S2 implementations and pinned by three consumers: met 2 Sep.
O3. The data layer is queryable and honest
- DATA-2 PR1 and PR2 merged by 5 Sep.
- Real terrain over the nine Austin cells before the first compiled generation (DATA-7, asked for 10 Sep); DATA-8 to DATA-12 after.
- Coverage for all seventeen portal places and any coordinate by 19 Sep (DATA-3 phase 3).
- One simple, fast way to get an experiment's tiles by 12 Sep (DATA-5).
O4. The fleet runs itself
- Every merge is the gate's: zero hand merges since 2 Sep 15:12 UTC (met so far).
- Job runner: records PR by 4 Sep (met early), slice 1 running jobs on aa-cpu-1 by 14 Sep.
- Weekly report every Sunday from 6 Sep: cost per repo, review calibration, capacity walls.
- Capacity inside the five-hour windows: one Fable lane per hour at most, an hour's freeze after a wall, fewer walls each week.
- Spend under the 10,000 USD monthly ceiling, model spend per repo weekly.
O5. Labs measure or stop
- LAB-1 to LAB-4 each post a first measurable result by 16 Sep.
- Pilot A judged blind from 9 Sep at the earliest, once EVAL-5's controls exist.
- Kill-or-keep with the realised gain on every card at 30 Sep; a winner graduates by a MIGRATION row, never by import.
O6. Toward the link
- world-serve and world-sim leads as their end states merge; the client-web lead once C3 products exist (target 16 Sep).
- The Rust + wgpu client's week-eight test, week of 26 Oct.
- Cutover when the new alpha beats the frozen alpha blind on Austin and the first-session flow; the link at your date (INB-12).
The dependency chain
contracts v0 (C1, C2 → C3, C9 → C5, C7, C8)→
earth-data publishes layers (buildings, roads, places; then terrain)→
tile-compiler compiles Austin at v0→
world-serve serves C9; the job runner dispatches→
client-web reads C3; the wgpu test→
eval judges blind at every step; the cutover test
The labs run beside the chain, not on it: each graduates into tile-compiler or earth-data by a port, or is killed at its date.
Every milestone
| date (UTC) | owner | milestone | ticket | status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-02 | platform | Gauntlet required in all 15 repos; first self-merges | PLAT-13 | met |
| 2026-09-02 | contracts | places.v0 and geo-addressing packs certified, pinned | PLAT-34 | met |
| 2026-09-02 | tile-compiler | End states merged: tile-compiler, world-sim, labs | CMP-1 | met |
| 2026-09-03 | tile-compiler | CMP-4 plan approved (job skeleton, plug-ins) | CMP-4 | open |
| 2026-09-03 | Joel / parent | DATA-5 wording adjudicated if silent (16:00) | DATA-5 | open |
| 2026-09-04 | eval | EVAL-4 judge packs PR in review | EVAL-4 | open |
| 2026-09-04 | platform | PLAT-14 PR1 records green (met early, #22) | PLAT-14 | met |
| 2026-09-05 | contracts | PLAT-15 PR1: C1 and C2 v0 on main | PLAT-15 | open |
| 2026-09-05 | tile-compiler | CMP-3 reference solver measured | CMP-3 | open |
| 2026-09-05 | Joel / parent | INB-6 conventions, INB-9 accounts: defaults | INB-9 | open |
| 2026-09-06 | platform | First weekly report (needs #19) | PLAT-21 | at risk |
| 2026-09-07 | tile-compiler | CMP-4 built | CMP-4 | open |
| 2026-09-09 | eval | First blind pair judged (diagnostic) | EVAL-4 | open |
| 2026-09-09 | Joel / parent | PLAT-6, INB-10, INB-11, INB-12 defaults | INB-12 | open |
| 2026-09-10 | earth-data | Real Austin terrain published (DATA-7, asked) | DATA-7 | open |
| 2026-09-11 | tile-compiler | Austin block compiled at v0, products on dev store | CMP-6 | open |
| 2026-09-12 | earth-data | DATA-5: one way to get an experiment's tiles | DATA-5 | open |
| 2026-09-14 | platform | Job runner slice 1 runs jobs on aa-cpu-1 | PLAT-14 | open |
| 2026-09-14 | tile-compiler | Plan artefact, constraint count, digest gate | CMP-7 | open |
| 2026-09-16 | contracts | C3 and C9 v0 cut | PLAT-45 | open |
| 2026-09-16 | eval | Preview render paired blind vs frozen alpha | EVAL-9 | open |
| 2026-09-16 | labs | First measurable result in LAB-1 to LAB-4 | LAB-1 | open |
| 2026-09-16 | Joel / parent | client-web lead spawned (when C3 products exist) | CLI-1 | open |
| 2026-09-18 | tile-compiler | Determinism harness nightly x86 + arm | CMP-9 | open |
| 2026-09-19 | earth-data | Coverage for any coordinate (DATA-3 phase 3) | DATA-3 | open |
| 2026-09-21 | tile-compiler | Nix job image | CMP-10 | open |
| 2026-09-30 | Joel / parent | Week-four re-plan; labs kill-or-keep | LAB-1 | open |
| 2026-10-26 | Joel / parent | wgpu client week-eight test | CLI-1 | open |
| 2026-11-24 | Joel / parent | Friends-and-family link (Joel's date; default) | INB-12 | open |
What you decide
INB-12, the friends-and-family date (default 24 Nov). INB-6 by 5 Sep (the geo and engineering conventions, or strike rows). INB-9 by 5 Sep (the accounts only you can create). INB-10 and INB-11 by 9 Sep (rotate the account-wide R2 key; the dead OpenRouter key). Each carries a default if silent.