Roadmap

What we're building next, what comes after, and what we set aside. Each line links to its issue on GitHub, where the work happens in the open, or to the episode where we promised it. What works today is on What works today.

Next

Chat with one general agent

• You talk in one conversation, and the right agent or model answers, so you don't pick between bots. Web, Terminal, Phone, Desktop. Follow it: #11106. Promised in Episode 86, Episode 87, Episode 100, Episode 211, Episode 269, Episode 289.
• You can pick from many top models and switch partway through a chat. Web, Terminal, Desktop. Follow it: #11097. Promised in Episode 67, Episode 84, Episode 89, Episode 118, Episode 150, Episode 256.
• If one model provider fails or refuses, the agent keeps working on another. Web, Terminal, Phone, Desktop. Follow it: #11079. Promised in Episode 118, Episode 265.
• It is free to start, and a $20 Pro plan unlocks stronger models and more capacity. Web, Terminal. Promised in Episode 119, Episode 164, Episode 242, Episode 277, Episode 280.
• You never see ads in your chats, and our websites use no tracking cookies. Web, Terminal, Phone, Desktop. Posted on X: 2024-05-20, 2024-10-21, 2024-12-30.

Coding with Coder

• You can queue and edit your next messages while it works. Terminal, Desktop. Follow it: #11121. Promised in Episode 254, Episode 255.
• You run Coder on a computer you've connected, from your phone or the web. Phone, Web. Follow it: #11093. Promised in Episode 144, Episode 145, Episode 193, Episode 281.
• You can rent cloud computers for your agents and pay by the hour. Web, Terminal. Follow it: #11101. Promised in Episode 106, Episode 276, Episode 281.
• Coder adds no refusals of its own; when a model provider refuses, it tells you which one and offers another model. Terminal, Web. Follow it: #11132. Posted on X: 2026-09-03, 2026-09-14.

Across your devices

• Your phone shows the same chats as your account. Phone. Follow it: #11107. Promised in Episode 187, Episode 193, Episode 275, Episode 281.
• You pair your phone with your computer by scanning a code. Phone, Desktop, Terminal. Follow it: #11093. Promised in Episode 193, Episode 194.

Models and the OpenAgents API

• One OpenAI-compatible API key reaches many models, and any coding tool can point at it. Open network, Terminal. Follow it: #11094. Promised in Episode 241, Episode 242, Episode 243, Episode 289.
• The API has a free tier with real limits. Open network. Promised in Episode 119, Episode 242.
• Agents can pay per request without an account. Open network. Follow it: #11077, #11136. Promised in Episode 62, Episode 63, Episode 70, Episode 86.
• You set your own spending limits. Open network, Web. Follow it: #11077. Promised in Episode 147, Episode 206.

Gym, evals, and proof

• We publish head-to-head results against leading coding agents, with scripts anyone can re-run. Web. Follow it: #11131, #11129. Promised in Episode 120, Episode 287.

Traces and your data

• A plain-words changelog links each change to the work behind it. Web. Follow it: #11104. Promised in Episode 272.

Agent-ready and open

• Agents can pay us with the payment method they already use, including Lightning and card. Open network. Follow it: #11085, #11136, #11139, #11140, #11141, #11142, #11143, #11144, #11145. Promised in Episode 62, Episode 70.
• Agents find every way to pay us in the places they already look. Open network. Follow it: #11137, #11147.

Surfaces

• A desktop app for Mac, Linux, and Windows that updates itself safely. Desktop. Follow it: #11092, #11120. Promised in Episode 2, Episode 175, Episode 208, Episode 248, Episode 256, Episode 289.
• An iPhone app on TestFlight. Phone. Follow it: #11093. Promised in Episode 139, Episode 149, Episode 193, Episode 289.
• An Android app. Phone. Follow it: #11093. Promised in Episode 149, Episode 151, Episode 289.

Later

Account and identity

• Your username and public profile match your GitHub name. Web. Promised in Episode 274.
• One recovery phrase gives you both your identity on the open network and your Bitcoin wallet. Phone, Desktop. Promised in Episode 82, Episode 143, Episode 144, Episode 207, Episode 208.
• Your agents get their own identity and keys. Open network, Verse. Promised in Episode 199, Episode 209, Episode 235, Episode 275.
• You can export all your data and leave whenever you want. Web, Terminal, Phone, Desktop. Promised in Episode 129, Episode 227.

Chat with one general agent

• You can paste a link or ask a question that needs the web, and the agent reads the page. Web, Terminal. Promised in Episode 67, Episode 69, Episode 73, Episode 76, Episode 44.
• You can send images and documents, and answers cite where they came from. Web, Phone. Promised in Episode 8, Episode 11, Episode 19, Episode 83, Episode 90.
• The agent remembers lasting facts about you, and you can see, edit, and delete them. Web, Terminal, Phone, Desktop. Promised in Episode 5, Episode 20, Episode 113, Episode 270, Episode 274.
• Once you allow it, the agent learns how you like to work from your past chats. Web, Terminal, Phone, Desktop. Promised in Episode 286.
• You can talk to the agent and hear it answer. Phone, Desktop, Web. Promised in Episode 111, Episode 151, Episode 152, Episode 251, Episode 270.
• Answers can include live pieces such as slides, tables, and buttons, not only text. Web, Desktop. Follow it: #11113, #11114. Promised in Episode 289.
• You can share a team workspace and its chats with teammates. Web. Promised in Episode 136, Episode 137.

Coding with Coder

• Hand it a GitHub issue and get back a tested pull request. Terminal, Web. Promised in Episode 20, Episode 25, Episode 30, Episode 123, Episode 161, Episode 228, Episode 287.
• It hands parts of a job to Codex, Claude, Devin, or other agents and combines the results. Terminal, Desktop. Follow it: #11096. Promised in Episode 195, Episode 198, Episode 264, Episode 267, Episode 278.
• Give it a list of work and walk away; it keeps going, even overnight. Terminal, Desktop. Promised in Episode 31, Episode 167, Episode 195, Episode 199, Episode 228, Episode 250, Episode 281.
• It looks around cheaply before calling an expensive model, so the same work costs less. Terminal. Promised in Episode 285, Episode 286, Episode 287.
• It picks the cheapest model that still gets each task done. Terminal, Open network. Follow it: #11079. Promised in Episode 219, Episode 287.
• You can bring your own keys, subscriptions, models, and computers. Terminal, Web. Follow it: #11111. Promised in Episode 219, Episode 244, Episode 277.
• When one of your accounts hits its limit, it moves to the next. Terminal, Desktop. Promised in Episode 225, Episode 246, Episode 250.
• It understands your whole repository without you picking files. Terminal. Promised in Episode 23, Episode 107, Episode 122, Episode 156, Episode 160.
• Your agent can drive a computer made for agents (browser, screen, phone emulator). Desktop, Terminal. Follow it: #11124. Promised in Episode 270, Episode 280, Episode 281, Episode 283.
• Each agent gets its own workspace with shared build caches, so many agents don't overload your machine. Terminal, Desktop. Promised in Episode 188, Episode 281.
• Another model reviews the work and writes tests in the background. Terminal. Promised in Episode 29, Episode 286.
• You see every change as a diff before you accept it. Terminal, Desktop, Web. Promised in Episode 117, Episode 119.
• You see how much CPU and memory each helper agent is using. Terminal, Desktop. Posted on X: 2026-09-04, 2026-09-05.

Across your devices

• You get a phone notification when an agent needs you. Phone. Promised in Episode 160, Episode 183, Episode 190.
• Your progress, levels, and rewards are the same in every app. Web, Terminal, Phone, Desktop. Promised in Episode 284.

Models and the OpenAgents API

• You say what you care about (cost, speed, privacy) and the agent picks models to match. Web, Terminal, Phone, Desktop. Follow it: #11079. Promised in Episode 269, Episode 286.
• A public counter shows tokens served and which models served them. Web. Follow it: #11081. Promised in Episode 243, Episode 244.
• The app never claims a model it didn't use; you get the model you picked or a visible failure. Web, Terminal, Phone, Desktop. Promised in Episode 250.
• You can run open models on your own machine or a friend's. Terminal, Desktop. Follow it: #11080. Promised in Episode 145, Episode 194, Episode 219.
• You can pay more for private processing of sensitive work. Open network. Promised in Episode 242.

Plugins and new abilities

• When the agent can't do something, it builds the ability with you, tests it, and you approve it. Web, Terminal, Phone, Desktop. Promised in Episode 211, Episode 289.
• An approved ability is shared, so every user's agent gets it. Open network. Follow it: #11096. Promised in Episode 49, Episode 53, Episode 87, Episode 211, Episode 269, Episode 289.
• Plugin authors are paid in Bitcoin every time someone pays to use their plugin. Open network. Promised in Episode 54, Episode 85, Episode 97, Episode 102, Episode 165, Episode 289.
• The agent finds the tools it needs itself, ranked by proven results. Web, Terminal, Phone, Desktop. Promised in Episode 87, Episode 102, Episode 285, Episode 286.
• Plugins run sandboxed, with only the access you grant. Web, Terminal, Phone, Desktop. Promised in Episode 48, Episode 102, Episode 214.
• Developers write plugins in many languages. Open network. Promised in Episode 48, Episode 53, Episode 68.
• You connect outside tools through MCP. Terminal, Desktop. Follow it: #11084. Promised in Episode 144, Episode 165, Episode 168, Episode 195.

Gym, evals, and proof

• Gym measures agents and plugins, and anyone can inspect the results. Web, Terminal. Promised in Episode 65, Episode 287, Episode 289.
• We publish benchmark results with the setup, costs, and failures, not only scores. Web. Promised in Episode 120, Episode 121, Episode 186, Episode 287.
• You earn experience, levels, and leaderboard places for verified work, never for wasted spending. Web, Terminal, Phone, Desktop, Verse. Promised in Episode 185, Episode 270, Episode 284.
• Leveling up unlocks free credits, better models, and hosting. Web, Terminal, Phone, Desktop. Promised in Episode 284.
• Improvements to how the agent works are published with their evidence, so everyone's agent gets better. Open network. Promised in Episode 270, Episode 286, Episode 287.
• You can report something that doesn't work, and it becomes a tracked fix. Phone, Web, Terminal. Promised in Episode 234, Episode 246, Episode 254.
• We publish accepted outcomes per dollar, and later per kilowatt-hour, as our main measure of work. Web. Posted on X: 2026-06-08, 2026-07-20.

Traces and your data

• You can sell scrubbed traces and data, and your agent asks before each sale. Open network. Promised in Episode 200, Episode 213, Episode 215, Episode 230, Episode 245, Episode 275.
• Free use in exchange for sharing scrubbed traces, with pay when they're reused. Web, Terminal. Promised in Episode 244, Episode 245.
• You choose how much of a project is public: nothing, activity, summaries, or everything. Web. Promised in Episode 272.

Wallet and payments

• You get a Bitcoin wallet where only you hold the keys, for small amounts. Phone, Desktop. Follow it: #11093. Promised in Episode 143, Episode 153, Episode 169, Episode 173, Episode 207, Episode 212.
• You can send sats just by asking. Web, Terminal, Phone, Desktop. Promised in Episode 212, Episode 289.
• Your agent can pay and get paid, under rules and budgets you approve. Phone, Open network. Follow it: #11146. Promised in Episode 42, Episode 47, Episode 141, Episode 147, Episode 212.
• You can pay by card. Web, Open network. Follow it: #11142, #11143, #11144. Promised in Episode 37, Episode 64, Episode 116.
• Earnings go to your Lightning address automatically. Open network. Promised in Episode 64, Episode 92, Episode 96, Episode 98.
• The revenue split between authors, providers, and OpenAgents is published. Web. Promised in Episode 37, Episode 97, Episode 98.
• Bring someone in and earn a share of what they pay, for as long as they pay. Open network. Promised in Episode 37, Episode 125, Episode 150, Episode 153, Episode 229, Episode 239.
• You can hold dollar-pegged balances backed by Bitcoin. Open network. Promised in Episode 96, Episode 173, Episode 200.
• Your agents can pay any service that asks for payment, from your wallet and within your budget. Terminal, Phone, Open network. Follow it: #11146.
• Every payment, any method, gets the same receipt, and shows in your usage and on /stats. Web, Open network. Follow it: #11138.

Markets, compute, and earning

• You can sell your computer's spare power for Bitcoin with one "Go Online" switch. Desktop, Terminal, Open network. Follow it: #11080. Promised in Episode 144, Episode 174, Episode 178, Episode 201, Episode 214, Episode 221.
• Providers are paid for accepted work, not for being online. Open network. Follow it: #11082. Promised in Episode 224, Episode 232, Episode 237.
• Anyone can join the markets by following open specs, without our permission. Open network. Promised in Episode 203, Episode 215, Episode 266, Episode 267, Episode 288.
• Your idle agent can take paid jobs from other people and agents. Open network. Promised in Episode 213, Episode 215, Episode 230, Episode 246.
• A public stats page shows the network's size, work done, and money paid. Web. Follow it: #11081. Promised in Episode 203, Episode 221, Episode 224, Episode 227.
• Paid bounties fund outside contributors. Web. Promised in Episode 1, Episode 43, Episode 88, Episode 216.
• Fan one job out to many machines at once. Open network. Promised in Episode 202, Episode 203, Episode 214.
• Sellers on the network are paid straight to their own wallet, and we never hold their money. Open network. Follow it: #11149.

Agent-ready and open

• Everything you can do in an app, you can do from the command line or API. Terminal, Open network. Promised in Episode 67, Episode 85, Episode 100, Episode 203, Episode 289.
• You can run your own copy of the whole thing. Open network. Promised in Episode 129, Episode 242, Episode 289.
• Agents can sign in with their own Nostr key. Open network. Follow it: #11148.

Surfaces

• The desktop shows many chats and terminals side by side in panes. Desktop. Follow it: #11124. Promised in Episode 118, Episode 123, Episode 179, Episode 185.
• Fast, game-like controls with hotkeys that stay put. Desktop, Terminal. Promised in Episode 170, Episode 171, Episode 246, Episode 249, Episode 251.
• A crash in one feature never takes down the app or your agents. Desktop, Terminal. Promised in Episode 258.
• The desktop opens a file in under a second and switches chats in under 50 ms. Desktop. Follow it: #11092. Posted on X: 2026-07-10, 2026-07-19.

The Verse

• A shared 3D world where you meet other people and agents. Verse, Web, Desktop, Phone. Promised in Episode 116, Episode 177, Episode 189, Episode 240, Episode 284.
• You watch your agents do real repository work there, and answer them or approve merges. Verse. Promised in Episode 116, Episode 240, Episode 284.
• You own named agents with jobs and a place to work in the world. Verse. Promised in Episode 270, Episode 284.
• You can see your network's work and payments moving in the world. Verse. Promised in Episode 240, Episode 241, Episode 243, Episode 289.
• Guilds, quests, and trades tied to real verified work. Verse. Promised in Episode 116, Episode 200, Episode 284.
• You command agents the way you command units in a strategy game. Verse, Desktop. Promised in Episode 170, Episode 171, Episode 178, Episode 199, Episode 283, Episode 284.
• A terminal inside the world that you can share. Verse. Promised in Episode 116, Episode 284.

Dropped on purpose

Earlier ideas

• A drag-and-drop visual builder for agent workflows. Set aside for chat (076); the agent now writes and tests the ability itself (F1). Web, Terminal, Phone, Desktop. Promised in Episode 38, Episode 58, Episode 59, Episode 61, Episode 73.
• A store of many separate agents to browse and rate. Replaced by one conversation backed by a network of agents and plugins (086, 289). Web, Terminal, Phone, Desktop. Promised in Episode 90, Episode 92, Episode 94, Episode 100.
• An open replacement for WordPress, and sites built by asking. OpenPress and Sites were retired. A site is a coding task for Coder. Web, Terminal, Phone, Desktop. Promised in Episode 126, Episode 127, Episode 129, Episode 180, Episode 229.
• A built-in CRM and an all-in-one business suite. Outside the current product focus; Coder and the general agent come first. Web, Terminal, Phone, Desktop. Promised in Episode 135, Episode 237, Episode 239, Episode 247.
• Code hosting to replace GitHub. "Too big an apple" (281). Back to GitHub. Web, Terminal, Phone, Desktop. Promised in Episode 270, Episode 272, Episode 273, Episode 274.
• Paid distributed training on home machines. Paused; not part of the current product. Our inference engine stays for local use and research. Web, Terminal, Phone, Desktop. Promised in Episode 216, Episode 238.
• Liquidity and risk markets. Speculative, with no buyers. Web, Terminal, Phone, Desktop. Promised in Episode 213, Episode 214, Episode 230.
• Ocean-powered data centers. Out of scope. Web, Terminal, Phone, Desktop. Promised in Episode 194, Episode 227.
• One-click security scans of open-source projects. Stood down in 266. Web, Terminal, Phone, Desktop. Promised in Episode 264, Episode 265.
• A named voice agent that runs things for you (Onyx, Sarah). Replaced by the one OpenAgents agent (289). Voice returns as B12. Web, Terminal, Phone, Desktop. Promised in Episode 139, Episode 151, Episode 260, Episode 270.
• Pay-per-message pricing in sats. Replaced by a free tier, Pro, and credits. Web, Terminal, Phone, Desktop. Promised in Episode 97, Episode 118.
• Paying providers per second online. Dropped in 224 for paying for accepted work. Web, Terminal, Phone, Desktop. Promised in Episode 214, Episode 223.
• Hand-gesture "Jarvis" control. Teaser only. Web, Terminal, Phone, Desktop. Promised in Episode 176, Episode 179, Episode 183.
• Desktop with no OpenAgents account. Replaced by one account everywhere (A1). Local-only use of Coder stays. Web, Terminal, Phone, Desktop. Promised in Episode 248, Episode 251.
• Small models running on the phone. Too slow on Android (149). Web, Terminal, Phone, Desktop. Promised in Episode 145, Episode 149.
• Public investigation agents (Sleuth, OSINT) and public knowledge graph. Domain experiments with no follow-up. Web, Terminal, Phone, Desktop. Promised in Episode 43, Episode 44, Episode 146, Episode 154.

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