Roadmap and known gaps
Measured state (see docs/verification.md for exact numbers and dates)
Launch target: ≥ 150 public records, ≥ 50 in-depth — exceeded (353 public, 92 in-depth at import). Remaining gaps are listed honestly below.
Known gaps
- Unverifiable hosts. Several official sites block automated clients (openai.com, chatgpt.com, claude.ai, godaddy.com, tableau.com, mathworks.com, realtor.ca, moodle.org, sec.gov without UA…). They are marked unverifiable (soft) rather than broken; a manual quarterly check is needed.
- Pricing pages missing for 18 commercial records (vendor has no public pricing page or blocks bots) — tracked by validator warnings.
- Taxonomy tension: full-text search engines under vector-databases; ORMs under web-frameworks; object storage under backup-recovery. Proposed new leaves:
search-engines,orm-data-access,object-storage. - Semantic search is dormant until
AI_PROVIDERand a key are configured on the node (adapter, embeddings column and RRF fusion are implemented and tested lexically only). - French interface/content: architecture ready (English-only strings centralised in pages; schema has no locale column yet). Plan:
tool_translations(tool_id, locale, summary, description, reviewed_by)+/frroutes, human-reviewed only. - Owner platforms (MacLustr, AKOS, PolyLLM, SPB Git, FinData, UQO Research DB) are recorded as private; publishing any of them requires the owner's explicit approval in Admin (
Make public). - Rate limiting is per process; fine for one PM2 instance.
- Logo assets: monograms only; vendor logos would need per-vendor permission review.
- CI:
scripts/ci.sh+ GitHub-Actions-style workflow are provided, but spbgit has no runner; CI runs locally/on the node before each release.
Next milestones
| # | Milestone | Measure of done |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Verify the ~45 soft-blocked hosts by hand; add pricing_url where a page exists |
validator warnings ≤ 5; 0 unchecked |
| 2 | Taxonomy revision (3 new leaves), re-categorize ~12 records | docs/taxonomy.md updated; counts ≥ 5 per leaf |
| 3 | Enable embeddings with a capped budget; evaluate hybrid vs lexical on the ranking fixture (expand to 60 cases) | MRR ≥ 0.8 hybrid, cost < 1 USD/month |
| 4 | 50 additional records from owner use (Apple frameworks, Québec open-data portals, UQO teaching stack) | 400+ public, 120+ deep |
| 5 | French translations for the 92 deep records (human-reviewed) | /fr/tools/<slug> live for deep records |
| 6 | Public read-only JSON API with ETags (/api/v1/tools) |
documented in README, rate-limited |
| 7 | Lighthouse budget in CI (performance ≥ 90 mobile) | report attached to verification.md |