# DinCoder Roadmap
> **Current Version:** v0.7.0 (Project Templates - Strategy E)
> **Status:** 31/42 stories complete (74%) - Phase 4 detailed planning complete!
> **Last Updated:** 2025-10-17
## Vision
Transform spec-driven development into a seamless, integrated experience across all AI coding platforms. DinCoder provides the complete Constitution → Specify → Clarify → Plan → Tasks → Implement → Validate workflow through composable MCP tools.
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## Completed Milestones ✅
### Phase 1: Core Spec Kit Parity (v0.2.0) - Released 2025-10-16
**Goal:** Match essential GitHub Spec Kit functionality
✅ **Constitution Tool** (`constitution_create`)
✅ **Clarification Tracking** (`clarify_add`, `clarify_resolve`, `clarify_list`)
✅ **Spec Validation** (`spec_validate`, `artifacts_analyze`)
✅ **Spec Refinement** (`spec_refine`)
✅ **Prerequisites Check** (`prereqs_check`)
**Result:** 21 total tools, 100% Spec Kit command parity
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### Phase 2: Advanced Task Management (v0.3.0) - Released 2025-10-16
**Goal:** Scale to projects with 50+ tasks
✅ **Task Visualization** (`tasks_visualize`) - Mermaid/Graphviz/ASCII graphs
✅ **Task Filtering** (`tasks_filter`) - Smart presets (next, frontend, backend, ready)
✅ **Batch Operations** (`tasks_tick_range`) - Range expansion for bulk completion
✅ **Task Search** (`tasks_search`) - Fuzzy matching with Levenshtein algorithm
✅ **Task Statistics** (`tasks_stats`) - Progress charts and analytics
**Result:** 26 total tools, enterprise-scale task management
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### Phase 3: Integration Strategy A (v0.4.0) - Released 2025-10-16
**Goal:** Universal workflow prompts across all MCP clients
✅ **MCP Prompts** (7 workflows):
- `start_project` - Initialize new spec-driven project
- `create_spec` - Generate feature specification
- `generate_plan` - Create implementation plan
- `create_tasks` - Break down into actionable tasks
- `review_progress` - Comprehensive progress report
- `validate_spec` - Quality gates before implementation
- `next_tasks` - Show actionable items
**Result:** Zero-configuration discovery in Claude Code, VS Code Copilot, OpenAI Codex, Cursor
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### Phase 3.1: Claude Code Plugin (v0.5.0) - Released 2025-10-17
**Goal:** Premium bundled experience for Claude Code users
✅ **Features:**
- Native `/spec`, `/plan`, `/tasks` slash commands (no prefix)
- Specialized agents: `@spec-writer`, `@plan-architect`, `@task-manager`
- Bundled CLAUDE.md with methodology documentation
- One-command install: `/plugin install dincoder`
**Repository:** [dincoder-plugin](https://github.com/flight505/dincoder-plugin)
**Result:** Premium Claude Code experience with 6 slash commands + 3 agents
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### Phase 3.2: VS Code & Codex Integration (v0.6.0) - Released 2025-10-17
**Goal:** Comprehensive documentation and templates for VS Code & Codex
✅ **Deliverables:**
- Complete VS Code + Copilot integration guide (docs/integration/vscode.md)
- Complete OpenAI Codex integration guide (docs/integration/codex.md)
- Ready-to-use template files for both platforms
- Quick setup instructions with troubleshooting
- Updated main README with integration sections
**Result:** Effortless onboarding for VS Code/Codex users with copy-paste templates
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### Phase 3.3: Project Templates (v0.7.0) - Released 2025-10-17
**Goal:** Pre-configured templates for common project types
✅ **Deliverables:**
- 4 project type templates (web-app, api-service, mobile-app, cli-tool)
- Pre-configured constitutions with best practices (~200 lines each)
- Sample spec-example.md showing proper structure
- Technology stack recommendations for each type
- Comprehensive master README (~250 lines)
- Complete integration with DinCoder constitution tool
- 1,160+ lines of template content
**Result:** Instant project setup with opinionated best practices built-in
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## Current Sprint 🚀
### Phase 4: Advanced Features (v0.8.0)
**Timeline:** 3 weeks
**Status:** 📋 Detailed Planning Complete - Ready for Implementation
**Research-Backed Tool Choices:**
- **tsoa** - TypeScript-to-OpenAPI generation (most comprehensive 2025 tool)
- **markdownlint** - Industry-standard markdown linting (Node.js)
- **DORA Metrics** - Research-backed performance indicators
- **SPACE Metrics** - Alternative to problematic velocity tracking
- **Cycle Time** - More actionable than velocity
**New Tools (6):**
1. **`contracts_generate`** - OpenAPI 3.1/GraphQL schema generation
- TypeScript-to-OpenAPI with tsoa integration
- Extract contracts from spec.md automatically
- GraphQL SDL generation support
- Contract versioning with breaking change detection
2. **`templates_customize`** - Template customization with hooks
- Override system for built-in templates
- Before/after/transform/validate hooks
- Variable substitution and inheritance
- Multi-level template inheritance
3. **`templates_list`** - Template discovery
- List all built-in and custom templates
- Show customization points
- Display current overrides
- Hook status reporting
4. **`metrics_report`** - DORA-aligned metrics tracking
- DORA metrics (Deployment Frequency, Lead Time, Change Failure Rate)
- SPACE metrics (Performance, Activity, Communication, Efficiency)
- Cycle time analysis (spec → plan → tasks)
- Trend detection (7-day MA, period-over-period)
- ⚠️ Avoids velocity-as-performance metric trap
5. **`metrics_export`** - Metrics export
- CSV format (Excel-compatible)
- JSON format (API-compatible)
- Custom date ranges
- Burndown charts with projections
6. **`spec_lint`** - Automated spec quality checking
- markdownlint integration
- 7+ spec-specific lint rules
- Prose quality checking (passive voice, vague language)
- Auto-fix capability for simple issues
- Configurable severity levels
**Total Tools After Phase 4:** 32 (26 existing + 6 new)
**Why:** Enterprise-grade features for contract-first development, quality automation, and metrics tracking
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## Upcoming Releases 📋
### Phase 5: Production Polish (v1.0.0)
**Timeline:** 2 weeks
**Status:** Planned
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### Phase 5: Production Polish (v1.0.0)
**Timeline:** 2 weeks
**Status:** Planned
**Focus Areas:**
- Cross-agent validation (Claude Code, VS Code, Codex)
- Observability & diagnostics
- Security hardening
- Comprehensive documentation
- Performance optimization
- Error handling improvements
- Real-world example gallery
**Why:** Battle-tested, production-ready release
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## Long-Term Vision (Post v1.0)
### Community Features
- [ ] Community template marketplace
- [ ] Shared spec libraries
- [ ] Collaborative spec editing
- [ ] Spec versioning and diffing
### AI Enhancements
- [ ] Multi-agent workflows (specialized agents per phase)
- [ ] Automatic spec improvement suggestions
- [ ] Learning from project history
- [ ] Cross-project pattern detection
### Enterprise Features
- [ ] Team analytics and insights
- [ ] Custom workflow orchestration
- [ ] Integration with Linear, JIRA, GitHub Projects
- [ ] SOC 2 compliance tooling
- [ ] Multi-repository coordination
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## How to Contribute
### Vote on Features
👍 **Upvote features** by commenting on [GitHub Discussions](https://github.com/flight505/mcp-dincoder/discussions)
### Suggest Features
💡 **Propose new features** with:
1. Use case description
2. MCP fit analysis (why this belongs in MCP server vs IDE plugin)
3. Examples of how you'd use it
### Champion Features
🛠️ **Help implement** by:
1. Comment "I can help with this" on feature issues
2. Review the [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) guide
3. Submit a PR referencing the feature issue
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## Success Metrics
### Adoption
- npm downloads of `mcp-dincoder`
- Plugin installs (Claude Code)
- Template repository uses
- MCP prompt invocations
### Engagement
- Average tools used per session
- Spec → Plan → Tasks completion rate
- Task completion velocity
- Quality gate pass rate
### Quality
- Spec validation pass rate (target: >90%)
- Plan-spec alignment score (target: >95%)
- Task dependency graph health
- User-reported issues (target: <10/month)
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## Stay Updated
- **GitHub:** [flight505/mcp-dincoder](https://github.com/flight505/mcp-dincoder)
- **npm:** [mcp-dincoder](https://www.npmjs.com/package/mcp-dincoder)
- **Smithery:** [@flight505/mcp_dincoder](https://smithery.ai/server/@flight505/mcp_dincoder)
- **Changelog:** [CHANGELOG.md](CHANGELOG.md)
- **Detailed Plan:** [plan.md](plan.md)
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**Roadmap Version:** 3.0
**Maintained by:** DinCoder Team
**License:** MIT
