markitect-main/TODO.md

# Todofile

This is a "to do next" file, particularly useful to keep the human and a coding assistant in sync.

The format is based on [Keep a Todofile V0.0.1](https://coulomb.social/open/KeepaTodofile).

The structure organizes **future tasks** by their impact, just as a changelog organizes past changes by their impact.

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## [Unreleased] - *Active Vibe-Coding State* 💡

This section is for tasks currently being discussed with or worked on by the coding assistant. These are the ephemeral, flow-of-thought tasks.

### Schema-of-Schemas Implementation (Active - Phase 3)

**Status:** Phase 3 - Schema-for-Schemas Metaschema (Completed ✅)
**Workplan:** See `roadmap/schema-of-schemas/WORKPLAN.md`

**Current Goals:**
1. ✅ Establish naming convention: `{domain}-schema-v{major}.{minor}.md`
2. ✅ Implement filename validation logic
3. ✅ Create markdown schema loader
4. ✅ Create example markdown schema
5. ✅ Build schema-for-schemas metaschema
6. ⏳ Migrate existing schemas to new format (Next: Phase 4)

**Phase 1 Tasks (Completed ✅):**
- [x] Write `markitect/schema_naming.py` with validation logic
- [x] Add unit tests for filename validation (50 tests, 100% passing)
- [x] Create SCHEMA_NAMING_SPEC.md documentation

**Phase 2 Tasks (Completed ✅):**
- [x] Implement MarkdownSchemaLoader class (markitect/schema_loader.py, 515 lines)
- [x] Add frontmatter extraction (YAML)
- [x] Add JSON code block extraction with section preference
- [x] Add metadata merging with x-markitect-source tracking
- [x] Write comprehensive unit tests (35 tests, 100% passing)
- [x] Create example markdown schema (manpage-schema-v1.0.md)
- [x] Create SCHEMA_LOADER_GUIDE.md documentation

**Phase 3 Tasks (Completed ✅):**
- [x] Design schema-for-schemas metaschema (schema-schema-v1.0.md)
- [x] Implement metaschema with validation rules for MarkiTect conventions
- [x] Add schema-validate CLI command with detailed error reporting
- [x] Write comprehensive unit tests (12 tests, 100% passing)
- [x] Test metaschema self-validation
- [x] Validate existing schemas against metaschema

**Next Phases:**
- Phase 4: Schema Migration (1-2 days)
- Phase 5: CLI & Documentation Updates (1 day)
- Phase 6: Testing & Validation (1 day)

**Expected Completion:** 4-5 days remaining

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### Extract Capability-Capability from Issue-Facade (Paused)

**Context:** Issue-facade currently provides two capabilities:
1. **issue-tracking** (explicit in CAPABILITY-issue-tracking.yaml) - Issue management across platforms
2. **capability-capability** (implicit) - Patterns and tools for creating/managing capabilities

The **capability-capability** includes:
- Feedback pattern (feedback/ directory, .capability/feedback CLI tool, documentation)
- Detachment facility (.capability/detach script for clean capability removal)
- Integration pattern (.capability/integrate.sh for project integration)
- CAPABILITY-*.yaml specification format
- ReusableCapabilitiesArchitecture.md (complete specification)
- Directory conventions (_family/implementation, visible/hidden patterns)

**Goal:** Extract capability-capability to separate `reusable-capability` repository so it can be used by any capability in the markitect ecosystem.

**Approach:** Step-by-step extraction, starting with specification.

#### Phase 1: Specification & Planning (Current)

- [ ] Create CAPABILITY-capability.yaml in issue-facade to explicitly declare the implicit capability
- [ ] Define what belongs to capability-capability family vs issue-tracking family
- [ ] Document the capability-capability API surface (what tools/patterns it provides)
- [ ] Identify all files/directories to extract
- [ ] Plan extraction strategy (copy vs move, how to maintain during transition)

#### Phase 2: Repository Creation

- [ ] Create reusable-capability repository structure
- [ ] Extract ReusableCapabilitiesArchitecture.md to new repo
- [ ] Extract feedback pattern (directory structure, CLI tool, README)
- [ ] Extract detachment facility (.capability/detach)
- [ ] Extract integration scripts (.capability/integrate.sh, integration-checklist.md)
- [ ] Create CAPABILITY-capability.yaml in new repo (canonical version)
- [ ] Add README.md for reusable-capability repo

#### Phase 3: Integration & Testing

- [ ] Update issue-facade to depend on reusable-capability (as integrated capability)
- [ ] Integrate reusable-capability into issue-facade using _capability/reusable-capability pattern
- [ ] Test that issue-facade still works with extracted capability
- [ ] Update issue-facade documentation to reference both capabilities it provides/uses
- [ ] Verify feedback system still works
- [ ] Verify detachment still works

#### Phase 4: Dogfooding & Validation

- [ ] Choose another markitect capability for dogfooding
- [ ] Integrate reusable-capability into that capability
- [ ] Add feedback system to new capability
- [ ] Add detachment facility to new capability
- [ ] Document learnings and refine reusable-capability based on real-world usage
- [ ] Update ReusableCapabilitiesArchitecture.md with insights

**Current Step:** Phase 1, Task 1 - Create CAPABILITY-capability.yaml

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## Completed Tasks

*Recent completed tasks have been documented in _issue-tracking/issue-facade/CHANGELOG.md following Keep a Changelog format.*

### 2026-01-04 - Phase 2: Schema Refinement Tools & Terminology Example
- ✅ Implemented schema-analyze command to detect rigidity issues
- ✅ Implemented schema-refine command with automatic loosening logic
- ✅ Added interactive mode to schema-refine for fine-grained control
- ✅ Created comprehensive test suite (33 unit tests, 100% passing)
- ✅ Wrote user guide documentation with examples and workflows
- ✅ Successfully tested on example schemas (reduced rigidity from 60/100 to 24/100)
- ✅ Integrated into CLI with proper exit codes and error handling
- ✅ Moved SCHEMA_EVOLUTION_WORKPLAN.md to todo/ directory
- ✅ Created terminology validation example (examples/terminology/)

**Key Features Delivered:**
- Rigidity score calculation (0-100 scale)
- Automatic detection of exact counts, const values, overly specific numbers
- Path navigation for nested schema properties
- Dry-run mode for previewing changes
- Interactive approval workflow
- Comprehensive reporting (normal and verbose modes)

**Terminology Example:**
- Complete terminology document structure (terminology-example.md)
- JSON schema with MarkiTect extensions (terminology-schema.json)
- Demonstrates schema usage for non-manpage documents
- Validates term definitions, synonyms, related terms, examples
- Includes content control and validation rules
- Full documentation and usage examples (README.md)

### 2026-01-04 - Phase 2: Markdown Schema Loader
- ✅ Implemented MarkdownSchemaLoader class (markitect/schema_loader.py, 515 lines)
- ✅ YAML frontmatter extraction with validation
- ✅ JSON code block extraction with "Schema Definition" section preference
- ✅ Metadata merging with x-markitect-source tracking
- ✅ Schema saving with template support and round-trip capability
- ✅ Comprehensive test suite (35 unit tests, 100% passing)
- ✅ Created example markdown schema (manpage-schema-v1.0.md)
- ✅ Created SCHEMA_LOADER_GUIDE.md with complete usage documentation

**Key Features Delivered:**
- Markdown-first schema format with embedded JSON
- Frontmatter metadata merges into schema ($id, version, status)
- Automatic detection of multiple JSON blocks
- Schema structure validation helper
- Error handling for binary files and invalid formats
- List JSON blocks helper for debugging
- Full round-trip save/load capability

**Example Markdown Schema:**
- manpage-schema-v1.0.md demonstrating complete format
- Includes frontmatter, documentation, and JSON schema
- Shows section classification and content control
- Follows naming convention: {domain}-schema-v{major}.{minor}.md

### 2026-01-04 - Phase 3: Schema-for-Schemas Metaschema
- ✅ Created schema-schema-v1.0.md metaschema (650+ lines)
- ✅ Validates core JSON Schema fields ($schema, $id, title, description)
- ✅ Validates MarkiTect version field (SemVer: major.minor.patch)
- ✅ Validates $id URL format (HTTPS with version)
- ✅ Validates MarkiTect extensions (x-markitect-sections, x-markitect-content-control, x-markitect-metadata)
- ✅ Implemented schema-validate CLI command with detailed error reporting
- ✅ Comprehensive test suite (12 unit tests, 100% passing)
- ✅ Metaschema self-validation successful

**Key Features Delivered:**
- Complete metaschema for validating all MarkiTect schemas
- Section classification validation (required, recommended, optional, discouraged, improper)
- Content control pattern validation
- Version format enforcement (SemVer)
- $id URL format enforcement (HTTPS with version)
- CLI command for easy schema validation
- Detailed error messages with schema paths

**Validation Results:**
- ✅ Metaschema validates itself
- ✅ Manpage schema validates successfully
- ⚠️  Terminology schema needs migration (missing version field, incorrect $id format)

### 2025-12-17 - Architecture Refactoring
- ✅ Implemented ReusableCapabilitiesArchitecture v0.1
- ✅ Added feedback capability to issue-facade
- ✅ Created detachment facility
- ✅ Refactored to family-based directory structure (_issue-tracking/issue-facade)
- ✅ Made feedback directory visible (feedback/ not .feedback/)
- ✅ Renamed to explicit family declaration (CAPABILITY-issue-tracking.yaml)
- ✅ Created CHANGELOG.md documenting v1.0.0