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StrategicPlan (ARCHIVE)

ARCHIVE NOTICE This document is preserved exactly as a historical artifact, with only minimal fixes for formatting and Markdown structure. It reflects early strategic thinking predating CORE’s modern architecture and governance. It does not represent the current 2025 implementation model, autonomy phases, CLI flows, or Mind–Body–Will structure.

Strategic Plan — Early Draft (Archived)

This file captured early strategic thoughts for CORE during its conceptual phase. It mixes vision, direction-setting, and early hypotheses about autonomy and architecture.

The modern plan is now fully described under:

  • core-concept/00_WHAT_IS_CORE.md
  • core-concept/02_ARCHITECTURE.md
  • planning/01-complete-implementation-plan.md
  • autonomy-and-governance/constitutional-coverage/*

Everything below is preserved for historical completeness.

1. Early Vision Summary (Archived)

CORE was originally conceptualized as:

  • a self-improving system,
  • capable of generating its own code,
  • governed by a constitutional rule layer,
  • driven by autonomous agents,
  • validated through continuous tests and audits.

This vision remains directionally correct but has since been significantly refined.

2. Early Architecture Outline (Archived)

The initial architecture assumed:

  • autonomous background daemons,
  • continuous monitoring agents,
  • self-triggering code generation,
  • looser governance boundaries.

Since then, the architecture matured to:

  • explicit, CLI-driven autonomy,
  • strict Mind–Body–Will boundaries,
  • a unified crate pipeline,
  • explicit constitutional audits,
  • no background daemons.

3. Draft Objectives (Archived)

Early objectives included:

  • full autonomy from natural-language instruction,
  • self-refactoring codebase,
  • autonomous test generation,
  • evolving architecture without human intervention.

These have been reshaped into governed phases:

A1 → A1.5 → A2 → A3 → A4

4. Early Roadmap (Archived)

The roadmap below is preserved exactly as it appeared conceptually:

Phase 0 — Prototype

  • basic LLM calls
  • raw, uncontrolled codegen
  • manual validation

Phase 1 — Autonomous Development

  • crate mechanism
  • basic planning
  • audit + tests gating
  • semi-structured generation

Phase 2 — Self-Improvement

  • agents update codebase automatically
  • background loops (deprecated)
  • structural reasoning

Phase 3 — Auto-Evolve

  • rules update themselves
  • policy rewriting
  • system-level changes
  • speculative autonomy

5. Lesson Learned (Archived)

In early development it became clear:

  • ungoverned autonomy is unsafe,
  • daemons and background loops create instability,
  • agents need explicit boundaries,
  • audits must be strict and mandatory,
  • planning must incorporate domain rules,
  • humans must remain involved in constitutional evolution.

These lessons shaped the modern system.

6. Deprecated Elements (Preserved)

Old drafts referenced concepts no longer in use:

  • self-triggering updates,
  • autonomous daemons,
  • early schema formats,
  • loose capability extraction,
  • outdated JSON-based manifests,
  • detached planning workflows.

These are maintained here only to document the evolution of ideas.

7. Notes on Historical Context

At the time this draft was written:

  • the CLI was incomplete,
  • the audit engine did not exist,
  • .intent/ had not been formalized,
  • the Knowledge Graph was early and fragile,
  • agents lacked alignment with governance.

Thus, most strategic thinking focused on discovering the right shape for the system — which later became the stable architecture used today.

8. Summary (Archive)

This document reflects an early exploration of what CORE might become. Modern CORE is far more concrete, governed, safe, and structured.

For modern planning, refer to:

  • planning/01-complete-implementation-plan.md
  • core-concept/02_ARCHITECTURE.md
  • autonomy-and-governance/03-test-generation-pragmatics.md
  • developer-guide/05-cli-workflows.md

End of archival document.