# Agent Control Plane - Roadmap

This document outlines the development roadmap for Agent Control Plane in 2026 and beyond. Our vision is to establish the leading open-source governance and safety layer for autonomous AI agents in production environments.

## Project Status (January 2026)

**Current Version:** v1.1.0  
**Status:** Early Production Ready / Competitive Open-Source Quality  
**Focus:** Addressing critical gaps for enterprise adoption and research credibility

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## Q1 2026 (January - March) - Foundation & Distribution

### Critical: Distribution & Accessibility
- [x] **PyPI Package Publishing** - Enable `pip install agent-control-plane`
  - Set up automated PyPI publishing workflow
  - Configure Test PyPI for pre-release testing
  - Add PyPI badges and installation instructions
- [x] **GitHub Releases & Versioning** - Formal release management
  - Create v1.1.0 release with comprehensive notes
  - Automated release creation on version tags
  - Semantic versioning enforcement
- [ ] **Documentation Portal** (Started)
  - Deploy docs to ReadTheDocs or GitHub Pages
  - API reference with auto-generated docstrings
  - Interactive examples and tutorials

### High Priority: Community Growth
- [x] **Public Roadmap** - This document!
- [x] **GitHub Discussions** - Enable community forum
- [x] **Issue Templates** - Comprehensive templates (bug, feature, security)
- [ ] **Contributor Recognition**
  - Add CONTRIBUTORS.md
  - Implement all-contributors bot
  - Monthly contributor highlights
- [ ] **Community Engagement**
  - Submit to Awesome AI Safety lists
  - Publish blog posts / technical articles
  - Present at AI safety meetups/conferences

### Technical: Production Hardening
- [ ] **High-Concurrency Benchmarks**
  - Ray-based distributed testing
  - Kubernetes deployment examples
  - Load testing with 1000+ concurrent agents
- [ ] **Async/Await Improvements**
  - Full async/await support across all adapters
  - Async context management
  - Performance profiling and optimization

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## Q2 2026 (April - June) - Advanced Intelligence

### Advanced Alignment & Safety
- [ ] **ML-Based Intent Classification**
  - Fine-tuned classifier for intent understanding
  - Embedding-based similarity detection for prompt analysis
  - Integration with SentenceTransformers
- [ ] **Constitutional Fine-Tuning Hooks**
  - RLHF integration for value alignment
  - LoRA adapters for constitutional principles
  - Feedback collection pipeline
- [ ] **Multi-Turn Red-Teaming**
  - Long-context adversarial scenarios (10+ turns)
  - Persistent attack detection across conversations
  - Memory-based threat analysis
- [ ] **Privacy Enhancements**
  - Differential Privacy with Opacus integration
  - Federated learning support for distributed agents
  - Advanced PII detection and anonymization

### Compliance & Enterprise Features
- [ ] **Compliance Mapping Extensions**
  - EU AI Act Article-by-Article mapping
  - SOC 2 Type II automated evidence collection
  - NIST AI Risk Management Framework support
- [ ] **Audit & Reporting**
  - Compliance dashboard with real-time status
  - Automated audit report generation
  - Evidence collection for regulatory submissions
- [ ] **Enterprise SSO & RBAC**
  - SAML/OAuth integration
  - Fine-grained role-based access control
  - Multi-tenancy support

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## Q3 2026 (July - September) - Multimodal & Ecosystem

### Multimodal Expansion
- [ ] **Vision Capabilities Enhancement**
  - GPT-4V, Claude Vision, LLaVA integration
  - Image safety classification (NSFW, violence, etc.)
  - OCR and document understanding
- [ ] **Audio Processing**
  - Whisper integration for transcription
  - Audio content moderation
  - Real-time audio streaming governance
- [ ] **Video Understanding**
  - Frame-by-frame analysis
  - Video content moderation
  - Temporal constraint enforcement

### RAG & Knowledge Integration
- [ ] **Vector Store Ecosystem**
  - Production-ready Pinecone, Weaviate, Qdrant integrations
  - Hybrid search (semantic + keyword)
  - Metadata filtering and faceted search
- [ ] **Document Processing**
  - PDF, Word, PowerPoint parsing
  - Citation extraction and tracking
  - Knowledge graph construction
- [ ] **Advanced RAG Patterns**
  - Query decomposition and routing
  - Multi-hop reasoning
  - Fact verification and source validation

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## Q4 2026 (October - December) - Scale & Intelligence

### Observability & Operations
- [ ] **Production Monitoring**
  - Grafana dashboard templates
  - Real-time alerting with PagerDuty/Opsgenie
  - Cost tracking and optimization recommendations
- [ ] **Distributed Tracing**
  - Full OpenTelemetry integration
  - Jaeger/Zipkin exporters
  - Cross-service trace propagation
- [ ] **Streamlit Dashboard**
  - Real-time governance metrics visualization
  - Interactive policy testing
  - Agent behavior analytics

### Tool Ecosystem & Extensibility
- [ ] **Tool Marketplace**
  - Curated catalog of governed tools (200+ tools)
  - Community-contributed tool registry
  - Risk-scored tool recommendations
- [ ] **Auto-Discovery**
  - Automatic tool schema extraction
  - Dynamic risk assessment
  - LangChain tool compatibility layer
- [ ] **Plugin System**
  - Custom policy plugins
  - Custom execution engines
  - Custom governance layers

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## 2027 and Beyond - Research & Innovation

### Research Initiatives
- [ ] **Academic Collaborations**
  - Joint research projects with universities
  - Peer-reviewed paper submissions
  - Workshop organization at major AI conferences
- [ ] **Novel Safety Techniques**
  - Formal verification of agent behavior
  - Provably safe agent architectures
  - Game-theoretic multi-agent safety

### Ecosystem Leadership
- [ ] **Standard Protocols**
  - Agent governance protocol specification
  - Open standard for agent safety (contribute to IEEE/ISO)
  - Interoperability with major AI platforms
- [ ] **Enterprise Partnerships**
  - Pilot programs with Fortune 500 companies
  - Industry-specific governance templates
  - Professional services and support offerings

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## Success Metrics

### Technical Metrics
- **Performance:** <10ms latency overhead for policy checks
- **Safety:** 0% critical violations in production deployments
- **Reliability:** 99.9% uptime for governance services
- **Scalability:** Support 100,000+ agents in production

### Community Metrics
- **Adoption:** 1,000+ GitHub stars by Q2 2026
- **Contributors:** 20+ active contributors by Q3 2026
- **Downloads:** 10,000+ PyPI monthly downloads by Q4 2026
- **Production Users:** 50+ organizations using in production by end of 2026

### Research Impact
- **Citations:** 10+ academic citations by end of 2026
- **Publications:** 2+ peer-reviewed papers
- **Talks:** 5+ conference/meetup presentations

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## How to Contribute

We welcome contributions across all roadmap areas! See [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) for guidelines.

### Priority Areas for Contributors
1. **Testing & Benchmarking** - Expand test coverage and real-world scenarios
2. **Integrations** - Add new LLM provider or framework adapters
3. **Documentation** - Tutorials, guides, and API documentation
4. **Examples** - Production-ready example applications
5. **Performance** - Optimization and scalability improvements

### Proposing New Features
- Check this roadmap to see if your idea aligns with our direction
- Open a [Feature Request](https://github.com/imran-siddique/agent-control-plane/issues/new?template=feature_request.yml)
- Join [Discussions](https://github.com/imran-siddique/agent-control-plane/discussions) to discuss major changes

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## Feedback

This roadmap is a living document and evolves based on:
- Community feedback and requests
- Emerging AI safety research
- Industry requirements and standards
- Technological advancements

Have suggestions? Open an issue or discussion to share your thoughts!

**Last Updated:** January 18, 2026  
**Next Review:** April 1, 2026
