# Future Work Current Notarius behavior is documented in the canonical README, CLI, configuration, operations, internal, and integration docs. This roadmap records future work only. Items are ordered roughly by current value and specificity, not as committed release dates. ## Proposed Next Scope: Ordered Pipeline Steps Add ordered groups of artifact lanes, canonical generated-artifact references, and dependency-aware checkpoint reuse without introducing a general DAG. The first production workflow runs normalized D&D NPC extraction before spell and combat-turn extraction and supplies that NPC artifact to their declared reference slots. The bounded target, compatibility and architecture decisions, exclusions, and acceptance criteria are defined in [Proposed Scope: Ordered Pipeline Steps](ordered-pipeline-steps.md). ## Near-Term D&D Pipeline ### Evaluate Spell Extraction And Normalization - Evaluate ordinary extraction retries and the completed normalization path against a human-reviewed transcript set before adding repair-aware retries or an LLM-backed semantic validator. - Maintain a small set of human-reviewed transcripts and outputs for prompt, validator, and normalizer development. Treat model-quality review as an iterative human evaluation aid, not a deterministic correctness gate. ### Expand Sequential D&D Artifacts - Add narrative extraction for scene summaries, party actions, and NPCs encountered when that output proves useful beyond the dedicated NPC artifact. - Use ordered pipeline steps when a later artifact needs an accepted earlier artifact as context. Keep independent lanes in the same step and do not introduce a general DAG or concurrent cross-lane reconciliation model. ### Improve D&D Scene Classification - Extend scene annotations with classifications that downstream extractors can use, including reliable combat and narrative indicators. - Strengthen the scene prompt so every scene containing combat turns is marked as combat, and add validation capable of detecting missing or inconsistent combat classifications. - Allow the combat extractor to no-op for chunks that are not classified as combat, avoiding unnecessary model calls where practical. - Allow a narrative extractor to select the corresponding scene classification rather than processing every chunk indiscriminately. - Reassess whether one shared scene plan provides enough context for NPC, spell, combat, and narrative pipelines after these extractors have real-world usage. Add more complex chunking only in response to demonstrated failures. ## Shared Normalization And Quality Work ### Generic LLM-Assisted Deduplication - Add a reusable normalizer that asks an LLM to identify duplicate sets in a list and propose one replacement element for each set. - Define the minimum domain-neutral input contract, initially an ordered list whose elements have stable unique IDs. Artifact-kind registrations or adapters may expose that structure without moving domain rules into the generic package. - Keep mutation deterministic: parse and validate the model's duplicate groups, require every referenced ID to exist, reject overlapping or malformed groups, prevent unrelated insertion or deletion, and apply only approved replacement operations in code. - Preserve provenance needed for audit and downstream validation, and emit warnings describing every collapsed group. - Evaluate batching and context-window limits before applying the normalizer to large artifact collections. The model may use its own domain knowledge to judge semantic duplication; the generic implementation is responsible only for the common proposal contract, safety checks, and deterministic application of accepted changes. ### Validation And Review - Add domain validators and production default chains alongside each new D&D artifact. - Add production LLM-backed validators only when a concrete review policy benefits from model judgment and deterministic checks are insufficient. - Add validator diagnostics and timing summaries if operators need more detail than the current [durable output bundle](../integrations/json-output.md) provides. - Add validator compatibility metadata if deployments need config-time proof that a validator is suitable for a particular stage, module, or artifact kind. - Add media-type validators when non-JSON artifact representations are introduced. ## Further Reference Evolution - Make prior-run artifacts easier to bind as references without changing the existing module-facing reference-item contract. - Add structured or parsed references, such as typed NPC registries, rosters, or spell catalogs, when opaque UTF-8 prompt material is no longer sufficient. - Add per-slot or per-chunk inclusion policies so large references are not repeated in every prompt unnecessarily. - Add token budgeting and model context-window management for reference content. - Add reference caching, preprocessing, summarization, embedding, or retrieval only when reference size and observed model behavior justify them. - Extend generated references to prior-run artifacts or derived summaries only after same-run ordered handoffs establish the required provenance and lifecycle semantics. ## Design Considerations To Revisit These concerns are relevant to ordered artifact dependencies but are not committed near-term features. ### Cross-artifact identity links Evaluate whether downstream D&D artifacts should retain canonical NPC IDs from the generated NPC reference in addition to normalized display names. Any such contract must define player-character, unknown-actor, missing-NPC, and superseded-identity behavior before implementation. Deterministic validation may confirm that a linked ID exists in the consumed NPC artifact, but the link must never substitute for transcript evidence that the downstream event occurred. ### Artifact contract evolution Define compatibility and migration policy before generated-reference chains must span multiple schema versions or long-lived historical artifacts. The policy should address stable identifier semantics, which schema changes permit checkpoint reuse, when an older artifact may be decoded or adapted, and when a producer or all dependents must be recomputed. Do not add a general migration framework until an actual contract change requires one. ## Blue-Sky Platform And Operations These ideas are intentionally less specified. Promote one into an earlier section only after a concrete workflow, contract, and priority emerge. ### Platform Extensions - Additional input adapters, such as Markdown or note-export formats. - Additional output encoders. - Concurrent cross-lane entity normalization or broader workflow composition. - Batching or specialized context-window controls for LLM-backed validators. ### Distribution And Operations - Packaged release artifacts for alpha distribution. - A documented versioning and release process. - Optional generated example-output fixtures with a regeneration procedure. - Additional diagnostics or reporting views. ### Workspace And Storage - Default-idempotent run behavior with an explicit force override. - Remote workspace storage. - Workspace garbage collection and archival policies. - Cross-machine checkpoint reuse.