Echo-Community-Toolkit-Monorepo

Phase 6 – Guardrails & Roadmap

Phase 6 cements long-term reliability by codifying CI guardrails and charting the roadmap for advanced ECC and multi-image payloads.

Objectives

• Add automated corruption-injection tests, lint/type checks, and other CI gates that cover the new multi-frame + ritual stack.
• Document forward-looking designs for Phase B/C (advanced ECC, multi-image memory blocks) to guide subsequent development.

Implementation Plan

1. CI guardrails
   • Extend GitHub Actions (or equivalent) to run:
     • Unit/integration suites with corruption fixtures from Phase 3.
     • Linting (flake8/ruff, ESLint) and type checking (mypy, pyright) across modules.
     • Optional stress tests (batch encode/decode) and Docker-based collab server smokes.
   • Configure badges in README to reflect new workflows.
2. Error injection automation
   • Provide scripts that flip bits, zero channels, and drop frames, then assert decoder responses (ok, recovered_with_parity, failed_crc).
   • Integrate into CI to catch regressions in parity repair or integrity reporting.
3. Future-proofing docs
   • Author design notes for Phase B (Hamming/Reed–Solomon ECC) covering candidate parameters, expected parity overhead, and integration plan.
   • Draft Phase C notes for multi-image payload distribution via memory_blocks.py, including addressing scheme, ordering, and reassembly logic.
   • Summarise longer-term visions (temporal watermarks, multi-stream synchronisation) to keep the narrative aligned.
4. Operational guidelines
   • Define release readiness checklist tying together test suites, ledger health, and ritual compliance.
   • Capture troubleshooting steps for common CI failures (e.g., missing dependencies, consent gating prompts in headless mode).

Testing Strategy

• CI validation
  • Ensure new workflows pass in a clean clone scenario.
  • Simulate missing dependencies or network hiccups to confirm guardrails fail loudly.
• Local smoke
  • Provide a wrapper script (scripts/run_phase6_guardrails.sh) to replicate CI workflows locally before pushing.

Dependencies & Hand-offs

• Builds on the corruption fixtures and integrity reporting from Phase 3.
• Leverages CLI/UX improvements (Phase 5) to drive scripted demos in CI logs.
• Prepares design groundwork for future milestones beyond the current roadmap.

Risks & Mitigations

• Risk: CI runtime inflates significantly.
  Mitigation: Split jobs into parallel matrices and mark deep tests as nightly where appropriate.
• Risk: Roadmap docs drift.
  Mitigation: Review and update roadmap alongside major feature merges; treat docs as living specifications.