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Three ranked open research programs for this repo, each with honest current-state evidence, first concrete steps, and a falsifiable milestone. Verified governance (ADR-069, proposed), cross-harness abstraction (ADR-072 proposed, ADR-068 accepted), and the self-improving loop (issue #1345). Use when you say `research frontier`, `open problems`, `what should we research next`. Do NOT use for how to run an experiment here (use `ai-agents-research-methodology`).

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AI Agents Research Frontier

Open problems where this repository can advance the state of the art, ranked in owner-confirmed priority order. This skill tells you WHAT is worth working on and what "done" would look like. It does not teach experiment discipline (that is ai-agents-research-methodology) and it is not the portability battle plan (that is ai-agents-portability-campaign).

Honesty contract for this document: every asset claim below was re-verified against the working tree on 2026-07-30. Anything labeled PROPOSED is not policy. Anything labeled UNVERIFIED could not be confirmed and must be checked before you build on it.

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The Three Programs at a Glance

Rank	Program	Anchor artifacts	Status (as of 2026-07-30)	Falsifiable milestone (short form)
1	Verified governance	ADR-069, `scripts/eval/eval-rule-activation.py`	ADR-069 is PROPOSED; eval tool exists, 15 rule scenario fixtures exist	Controlled eval shows gated-corpus sessions beat ungated on N scenarios with defensible stats
2	Cross-harness abstraction	ADR-072, ADR-068, `build/generate_agents.py`, `tests/build_scripts/test_generate_hooks_runtime_contract.py`	ADR-072 PROPOSED, ADR-068 ACCEPTED as of 2026-07-30; generators and contract tests exist and run	New harness target added with zero hand-edits to generated trees, contract suite green
3	Self-improving loop	issue #1345 hooks, `EVENT=` telemetry (retired, ADR-084/#5154)	Apply-step hooks unregistered; end-to-end consumer pipeline UNVERIFIED	A correction observed once auto-proposes a guard that survives calibration

Process

Phase 1: Verify current state before claiming anything

The evidence below decays. Re-run these before quoting any of it in an ADR, issue, or write-up. All commands run from the repo root.

Claim	Re-verify command
ADR-069 status is proposed	`head -5 .project-toolkit/architecture/ADR-069-context-corpus-is-the-product.md`
ADR-072 status is Proposed with approval conditions	`sed -n '1,15p' .project-toolkit/architecture/ADR-072-jtbd-plugin-architecture.md`
ADR-068 status is Accepted as of 2026-07-30	`sed -n '1,10p' .project-toolkit/architecture/ADR-068-consolidated-hook-dispatcher.md`
Rule-activation eval exists with a no-spend path	`python3 scripts/eval/eval-rule-activation.py --help`
Rule scenario fixtures	`set -- tests/evals/rule-scenarios/*; echo $#`
Corpus size across skills, rules, retros, memories	`python3 -c "from pathlib import Path as P; print(len(list(P('.claude/skills').glob('/SKILL.md'))),'skills',len(list(P('.claude/rules').glob('.md'))),'rules',sum(1 for p in P('.project-toolkit/retrospective').glob('.md') if p.is_file() and p.name != 'INDEX.md'),'retros',sum(1 for p in P('.serena/memories').rglob('.md') if p.is_file()),'memories')"`
Runtime contract tests pass	`uv run pytest tests/build_scripts/test_generate_hooks_runtime_contract.py -q`
Apply-step hooks unregistered	`uv run pytest -q "tests/build_scripts/test_copilot_dispatcher_artifact.py::TestDispatcherArtifacts::test_retired_hooks_are_absent_and_keepers_are_plugin_only"`

Phase 2: Pick a program

Take the highest-ranked program whose first unclaimed step you can finish. Rank order is owner-confirmed; do not reorder it without the owner. If your idea does not fit any program, it is a new capability: route through the buy-vs-build-framework Quick tier gate first (AGENTS.md Skill-First section), then ai-agents-research-methodology for the idea lifecycle.

Phase 3: Execute the first steps

Each program section below lists three concrete first steps IN THIS REPO. Steps are ordered; do not skip to step 3 because it is more interesting. Every step that produces a measurement must predict the number before running (see ai-agents-research-methodology), and every probe of external tool behavior must follow ai-agents-empirical-probe-toolkit (pinned version, foreign cwd/env, negative control).

Phase 4: Report and gate

Results go through the normal machinery, not around it: write-ups per ai-agents-docs-of-record, changes through ai-agents-change-control, ADR edits fire the adr-review debate gate. A negative result is a result: record it (the #2230 rejected-fix pattern) so the next person does not re-run it.

Program 1: Verified Governance (ADR-069, PROPOSED)

Thesis (quoting the ADR title verbatim): "The Curated Context Corpus IS the Product, Orchestration Is Plumbing" (.project-toolkit/architecture/ADR-069-context-corpus-is-the-product.md, status: proposed, date 2026-05-02). Core frame: no learning between runs; the only thing that persists is what re-enters the next context window, so the corpus is the durable competitive surface and everything else is plumbing.

Why current state of the art fails

Prompt engineering is folklore: rules ship because they sound right, and almost nobody measures whether a rule changes model behavior at all.
Rules are unmeasured even here: this repo carries more rule files under .claude/rules/ than scenario fixtures under tests/evals/rule-scenarios/. Run the Phase 1 corpus command for current numbers rather than quoting a stored one. Most rules have never had an activation baseline.
Weight tuning is unavailable to a repository: you cannot fine-tune the vendor model, so context curation is the only lever, and the field has no shared methodology for verifying it.

This repo's asset

A large corpus of skill directories, rules, retrospectives, and Serena memories. Run the Phase 1 corpus command for current counts.
Gates that produce inspectable artifacts (verification-based governance): every rule violation leaves evidence, so compliance is measurable after the fact.
A working eval harness: scripts/eval/eval-rule-activation.py compares baseline (no rule) vs description-only vs full-body loading, LLM-judged on activation, citation, and behavior scores (1 to 5), with --dry-run as the zero-spend validation path and ADR-035 exit codes.
A measured failure baseline to beat: FM-1 (Context Reading Failure) recorded 95.8% session-start non-compliance in a sampled period (.agents/governance/FAILURE-MODES.md:44).

First three steps

Wire rule-activation baselines for 3 high-traffic rules that lack fixtures. UNVERIFIED: no per-rule traffic measurement exists; as a proxy, pick rules cited most often in .project-toolkit/retrospective/ (grep the rule filename). Write scenario JSON files modeled on tests/evals/rule-scenarios/refactoring.json, dry-run first, predict scores before the paid run.
Measure FM-1 compliance rate before and after one deliberate context change (for example, moving one rule between description-only and full-body loading), using session logs under .project-toolkit/sessions/ as the compliance record. Predict the delta first.
Publish the methodology doc: how this repo turns a governance rule into a measured, gated, evidenced control. Route it through adr-generator or a governance doc per ai-agents-docs-of-record; it is the publishable unit.

Falsifiable milestone

You have a result when a controlled eval shows a gated-corpus session outperforms an ungated session on N pre-registered scenarios with statistically defensible evidence (pre-declared N, pre-declared success metric, variance controls per scripts/eval/variance-control.py). You have a negative result, equally worth publishing, if the gated corpus shows no measurable difference: that would falsify the strong form of ADR-069.

Program 2: Cross-Harness Abstraction (ADR-072 seam, ADR-068)

Why current state of the art fails

Every harness reinvents plugin semantics: Claude Code and Copilot CLI diverge on matchers, hook cwd, payload field casing, env anchors, and kill budgets (settled contract rows live in agent-harness-reference).
No conformance suites exist: vendors ship docs that were wrong by omission at least twice for this repo (#2205 plugin-root env vars, #2290 payload casing); nothing in the ecosystem lets you certify "this plugin behaves identically on harness X and Y."

This repo's asset

A working multi-target generator: build/generate_agents.py emits agent trees from templates/agents/*.shared.md, and build/scripts/build_all.py (7 generators) mirrors .claude/ content into src/copilot-cli/ and .github/instructions/, with --check as the CI drift gate. Existing target trees: src/vs-code-agents/, src/copilot-cli/, src/claude/ (manual, ADR-036).
Empirically settled contract tests: tests/build_scripts/test_generate_hooks_runtime_contract.py pins the hook anchoring contract under foreign cwd/env with a negative control, plus scripts/validation/validate_hook_anchoring.py.
A settled env-anchor decision memory: .serena/memories/decision-copilot-cli-hook-plugin-root-contract.md.
ADR-068 has real measurements to build on: issue #2295 recorded 3 of 197 preToolUse invocations killed by the 2 to 3 second budget, and ~246 ms measured Python cold start per shim on Windows with 40 PreToolUse shims.

Label honestly: ADR-072 is PROPOSED with an explicit "APPROVE WITH CHANGES" review and five conditions to reach Accepted; ADR-068 reached ACCEPTED on 2026-07-19. No code moves on ADR-072 alone. Nothing in this program may route around ai-agents-change-control.

First three steps

Formalize the contract table into a versioned spec: extract the empirically-verified rows from agent-harness-reference and the decision memory into one spec file with a version field and per-row evidence links (probe retro, memory, or code path). Docs-say rows stay marked docs-say.
Build a conformance test runner per harness: parameterize the existing runtime-contract tests so the same suite executes against each target tree, reporting per-harness pass/fail instead of Claude-only.
Third-target dry run: pick one harness this repo does not yet emit for (ADR-072 names Codex CLI and Cursor as distribution harnesses), run the generator pipeline in --what-if/--check mode against a prototype emission profile, and log every place a hand-edit would have been needed.

Falsifiable milestone

A new harness target is added with zero hand-edits to generated trees and the conformance suite green on every harness. The milestone fails, and the abstraction is falsified, if the third target requires manual patching of generated output or a contract row that cannot be expressed in the spec.

Program 3: Self-Improving Loop (issue #1345)

Why current state of the art fails

Agent memories decay: observations pile up but not

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# AI Agents Research Frontier

<!-- vendor-portability: contributor-facing knowledge pack for the rjmurillo/ai-agents repo itself; intentionally references upstream paths (.agents/, .claude/, scripts/, build/) because its audience is repo contributors, not plugin consumers (issue #2050) -->
Open problems where this repository can advance the state of the art, ranked in
owner-confirmed priority order. This skill tells you WHAT is worth working on and
what "done" would look like. It does not teach experiment discipline (that is
`ai-agents-research-methodology`) and it is not the portability battle plan
(that is `ai-agents-portability-campaign`).

Honesty contract for this document: every asset claim below was re-verified
against the working tree on 2026-07-30. Anything labeled PROPOSED is not policy.
Anything labeled UNVERIFIED could not be confirmed and must be checked before you
build on it.

## Triggers

- `research frontier`
- `open problems`
- `what should we research next`
- `frontier programs`

## The Three Programs at a Glance

| Rank | Program | Anchor artifacts | Status (as of 2026-07-30) | Falsifiable milestone (short form) |
|------|---------|------------------|---------------------------|-------------------------------------|
| 1 | Verified governance | ADR-069, `scripts/eval/eval-rule-activation.py` | ADR-069 is PROPOSED; eval tool exists, 15 rule scenario fixtures exist | Controlled eval shows gated-corpus sessions beat ungated on N scenarios with defensible stats |
| 2 | Cross-harness abstraction | ADR-072, ADR-068, `build/generate_agents.py`, `tests/build_scripts/test_generate_hooks_runtime_contract.py` | ADR-072 PROPOSED, ADR-068 ACCEPTED as of 2026-07-30; generators and contract tests exist and run | New harness target added with zero hand-edits to generated trees, contract suite green |
| 3 | Self-improving loop | issue #1345 hooks, `EVENT=` telemetry (retired, ADR-084/#5154) | Apply-step hooks unregistered; end-to-end consumer pipeline UNVERIFIED | A correction observed once auto-proposes a guard that survives calibration |

## Process

### Phase 1: Verify current state before claiming anything

The evidence below decays. Re-run these before quoting any of it in an ADR,
issue, or write-up. All commands run from the repo root.

| Claim | Re-verify command |
|-------|-------------------|
| ADR-069 status is proposed | `head -5 .project-toolkit/architecture/ADR-069-context-corpus-is-the-product.md` |
| ADR-072 status is Proposed with approval conditions | `sed -n '1,15p' .project-toolkit/architecture/ADR-072-jtbd-plugin-architecture.md` |
| ADR-068 status is Accepted as of 2026-07-30 | `sed -n '1,10p' .project-toolkit/architecture/ADR-068-consolidated-hook-dispatcher.md` |
| Rule-activation eval exists with a no-spend path | `python3 scripts/eval/eval-rule-activation.py --help` |
| Rule scenario fixtures | `set -- tests/evals/rule-scenarios/*; echo $#` |
| Corpus size across skills, rules, retros, memories | `python3 -c "from pathlib import Path as P; print(len(list(P('.claude/skills').glob('*/SKILL.md'))),'skills',len(list(P('.claude/rules').glob('*.md'))),'rules',sum(1 for p in P('.project-toolkit/retrospective').glob('*.md') if p.is_file() and p.name != 'INDEX.md'),'retros',sum(1 for p in P('.serena/memories').rglob('*.md') if p.is_file()),'memories')"` |
| Runtime contract tests pass | `uv run pytest tests/build_scripts/test_generate_hooks_runtime_contract.py -q` |
| Apply-step hooks unregistered | `uv run pytest -q "tests/build_scripts/test_copilot_dispatcher_artifact.py::TestDispatcherArtifacts::test_retired_hooks_are_absent_and_keepers_are_plugin_only"` |

### Phase 2: Pick a program

Take the highest-ranked program whose first unclaimed step you can finish. Rank
order is owner-confirmed; do not reorder it without the owner. If your idea does
not fit any program, it is a new capability: route through the
`buy-vs-build-framework` Quick tier gate first (AGENTS.md Skill-First section),
then `ai-agents-research-methodology` for the idea lifecycle.

### Phase 3: Execute the first steps

Each program section below lists three concrete first steps IN THIS REPO. Steps
are ordered; do not skip to step 3 because it is more interesting. Every step
that produces a measurement must predict the number before running (see
`ai-agents-research-methodology`), and every probe of external tool behavior
must follow `ai-agents-empirical-probe-toolkit` (pinned version, foreign
cwd/env, negative control).

### Phase 4: Report and gate

Results go through the normal machinery, not around it: write-ups per
`ai-agents-docs-of-record`, changes through `ai-agents-change-control`, ADR
edits fire the `adr-review` debate gate. A negative result is a result: record
it (the #2230 rejected-fix pattern) so the next person does not re-run it.

## Program 1: Verified Governance (ADR-069, PROPOSED)

Thesis (quoting the ADR title verbatim): "The Curated Context Corpus IS the
Product, Orchestration Is Plumbing"
(`.project-toolkit/architecture/ADR-069-context-corpus-is-the-product.md`, status:
proposed, date 2026-05-02). Core frame: no learning between runs; the only thing
that persists is what re-enters the next context window, so the corpus is the
durable competitive surface and everything else is plumbing.

### Why current state of the art fails

- Prompt engineering is folklore: rules ship because they sound right, and
  almost nobody measures whether a rule changes model behavior at all.
- Rules are unmeasured even here: this repo carries more rule files
  under `.claude/rules/` than scenario fixtures under
  `tests/evals/rule-scenarios/`. Run the Phase 1 corpus command for current
  numbers rather than quoting a stored one. Most rules have never had an
  activation baseline.
- Weight tuning is unavailable to a repository: you cannot fine-tune the vendor
  model, so context curation is the only lever, and the field has no shared
  methodology for verifying it.

### This repo's asset

- A large corpus of skill directories, rules, retrospectives, and Serena
  memories. Run the Phase 1 corpus command for current counts.
- Gates that produce inspectable artifacts (verification-based governance):
  every rule violation leaves evidence, so compliance is measurable after the
  fact.
- A working eval harness: `scripts/eval/eval-rule-activation.py` compares
  baseline (no rule) vs description-only vs full-body loading, LLM-judged on
  activation, citation, and behavior scores (1 to 5), with `--dry-run` as the
  zero-spend validation path and ADR-035 exit codes.
- A measured failure baseline to beat: FM-1 (Context Reading Failure) recorded
  95.8% session-start non-compliance in a sampled period
  (`.agents/governance/FAILURE-MODES.md:44`).

### First three steps

1. Wire rule-activation baselines for 3 high-traffic rules that lack fixtures.
   UNVERIFIED: no per-rule traffic measurement exists; as a proxy, pick rules
   cited most often in `.project-toolkit/retrospective/` (grep the rule filename). Write
   scenario JSON files modeled on `tests/evals/rule-scenarios/refactoring.json`,
   dry-run first, predict scores before the paid run.
2. Measure FM-1 compliance rate before and after one deliberate context change
   (for example, moving one rule between description-only and full-body
   loading), using session logs under `.project-toolkit/sessions/` as the compliance
   record. Predict the delta first.
3. Publish the methodology doc: how this repo turns a governance rule into a
   measured, gated, evidenced control. Route it through `adr-generator` or a
   governance doc per `ai-agents-docs-of-record`; it is the publishable unit.

### Falsifiable milestone

You have a result when a controlled eval shows a gated-corpus session
outperforms an ungated session on N pre-registered scenarios with statistically
defensible evidence (pre-declared N, pre-declared success metric, variance
controls per `scripts/eval/variance-control.py`). You have a negative result,
equally worth publishing, if the gated corpus shows no measurable difference:
that would falsify the strong form of ADR-069.

## Program 2: Cross-Harness Abstraction (ADR-072 seam, ADR-068)

### Why current state of the art fails

- Every harness reinvents plugin semantics: Claude Code and Copilot CLI diverge
  on matchers, hook cwd, payload field casing, env anchors, and kill budgets
  (settled contract rows live in `agent-harness-reference`).
- No conformance suites exist: vendors ship docs that were wrong by omission at
  least twice for this repo (#2205 plugin-root env vars, #2290 payload casing);
  nothing in the ecosystem lets you certify "this plugin behaves identically on
  harness X and Y."

### This repo's asset

- A working multi-target generator: `build/generate_agents.py` emits agent
  trees from `templates/agents/*.shared.md`, and `build/scripts/build_all.py`
  (7 generators) mirrors `.claude/` content into `src/copilot-cli/` and
  `.github/instructions/`, with `--check` as the CI drift gate. Existing target
  trees: `src/vs-code-agents/`, `src/copilot-cli/`, `src/claude/` (manual,
  ADR-036).
- Empirically settled contract tests:
  `tests/build_scripts/test_generate_hooks_runtime_contract.py` pins the hook
  anchoring contract under foreign cwd/env with a negative control, plus
  `scripts/validation/validate_hook_anchoring.py`.
- A settled env-anchor decision memory:
  `.serena/memories/decision-copilot-cli-hook-plugin-root-contract.md`.
- ADR-068 has real measurements to build on: issue #2295 recorded 3 of 197
  preToolUse invocations killed by the 2 to 3 second budget, and ~246 ms
  measured Python cold start per shim on Windows with 40 PreToolUse shims.

Label honestly: ADR-072 is PROPOSED with an explicit "APPROVE WITH CHANGES"
review and five conditions to reach Accepted; ADR-068 reached ACCEPTED on
2026-07-19. No code moves on ADR-072 alone. Nothing in this program may route around
`ai-agents-change-control`.

### First three steps

1. Formalize the contract table into a versioned spec: extract the
   empirically-verified rows from `agent-harness-reference` and the decision
   memory into one spec file with a version field and per-row evidence links
   (probe retro, memory, or code path). Docs-say rows stay marked docs-say.
2. Build a conformance test runner per harness: parameterize the existing
   runtime-contract tests so the same suite executes against each target tree,
   reporting per-harness pass/fail instead of Claude-only.
3. Third-target dry run: pick one harness this repo does not yet emit for
   (ADR-072 names Codex CLI and Cursor as distribution harnesses), run the
   generator pipeline in `--what-if`/`--check` mode against a prototype
   emission profile, and log every place a hand-edit would have been needed.

### Falsifiable milestone

A new harness target is added with zero hand-edits to generated trees and the
conformance suite green on every harness. The milestone fails, and the
abstraction is falsified, if the third target requires manual patching of
generated output or a contract row that cannot be expressed in the spec.

## Program 3: Self-Improving Loop (issue #1345)

### Why current state of the art fails

- Agent memories decay: observations pile up but not

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