Roadmap: terminal-native product polish from context entry to autonomous task control

[qwen-code-dev-bot]

Outcome

Evolve the CLI through a staged product-polish program, from low-friction context entry and session continuity to inspectable autonomous execution. Each stage must remain terminal-native, keyboard-first, deterministic, and evidence-backed.

Product principles

• Reuse existing session, command, approval, evidence, and telemetry contracts instead of creating parallel state.
• Implement capabilities independently; do not copy third-party source, branding, artwork, or interaction text.
• Preserve user-owned Git and workspace changes. Destructive or ambiguous actions fail closed.
• Bind behavioral evidence to the exact pull-request head SHA.
• Keep narrow terminals, no-color mode, screen readers, and non-interactive behavior usable.

Delivery sequence

Foundation

1. Workspace file and directory references in the composer.
2. Interactive session discovery and exact-session resume.
3. Local redacted session export.

Control

4. Safe one-turn undo and redo.
5. Side questions that do not disturb the main task.
6. Inspectable session activity and efficiency statistics.

Advanced

7. Workspace-bound language-server readiness and diagnostics.
8. Background task monitoring, cancellation, and receipts.

Definition of done

Every child ships through Issue -> lease -> branch -> commits -> PR -> required checks -> head-bound terminal/tmux E2E -> merge -> post-merge dogfood -> cleanup. Completion requires real interaction evidence, no fabricated telemetry, released leases, closed labels, a clean workspace, and main equal to origin/main.

[qwen-code-dev-bot]

Child delivery queue:

• TUI: autocomplete workspace file and directory references with safe previews #196 — safe workspace references
• TUI: browse and resume sessions from an interactive picker #197 — interactive session picker
• CLI: export a session locally with deterministic redaction #198 — deterministic local export
• TUI: safely undo and redo one completed agent turn #199 — safe one-turn undo and redo
• TUI: ask a side question without disturbing the main task #200 — isolated side questions
• TUI: expose session activity and efficiency in an inspectable stats view #201 — inspectable session statistics
• Runtime: surface workspace-bound language-server readiness and diagnostics #202 — workspace-bound language-server diagnostics
• TUI: monitor and control background tasks with durable receipts #203 — durable background task control

Deliver in dependency-aware order. A later child may be prepared in parallel only when it does not share runtime state or weaken the one-active-lease policy.