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# Future Feature Ideas
## Purpose
This document catalogs reasonably specific ideas that may be useful in future
Promptkit development. It is an idea pool, not a commitment, schedule, or
description of current behavior.
Ideas belong here while they are worth retaining but have not been selected
for active development. Keep each entry at the level of intended capability,
consumer value, and important scope boundaries. Defer API design,
implementation details, sequencing, and acceptance criteria until an idea is
selected.
## Using This Catalog
- Add an idea when its purpose and likely value can be stated clearly.
- Keep entries independent enough that maintainers can evaluate and select
them individually.
- Note significant dependencies or boundary concerns, but do not turn entries
into implementation plans.
- Treat inclusion as an invitation to evaluate, not as approval or priority.
- When an idea is selected, move its active planning to a focused roadmap or,
when it requires a durable architectural decision, an ADR. Update
current-state documentation only when implementation lands.
- Remove ideas that are no longer relevant. Retain a rejected idea only when
its rationale is likely to prevent repeated reconsideration.
Future capabilities must continue to respect the
[architecture policy](../policy/architecture.md), particularly Promptkit's
role as an application-neutral library and its boundary with downstream
consumers.
## Ideas
### Backend-specific concurrency management
Extend the
[LLM backend registry](../consumers/pkg-promptkit.md#register-a-custom-backend)
with optional per-backend concurrency limits and bounded, buffered admission
queues. Promptkit could then route simultaneous
generation requests according to backend capacity while containing accidental
runaway submission. Downstream consumers would continue invoking synchronous
`Run` calls, including concurrently from multiple goroutines, and each
admitted call would wait for and return its ordinary result.
- Scope limits to an engine instance rather than hidden process-global state.
- Give different backend IDs independent capacity pools. A profile endpoint
override would remain part of its selected backend's pool.
- Configure active concurrency and waiting capacity separately. Concurrency
protects the backend, while queue capacity protects the process from
admitting an unbounded backlog.
- Give queue capacity a generous, configurable bounded default intended as a
safety ceiling for bugs or unintended loops rather than a routine
application constraint. Select an exact default during implementation
planning and measurement.
- Reject a call with a recognizable capacity error when its backend queue is
full rather than allowing it to wait outside the bounded queue.
- Admit requests before expensive preparation and artifact copying where
practical so queued work remains lightweight.
- Apply a limit to each actual generation request, including repair attempts,
without unnecessarily serializing prompt preparation.
- Make queued and active waits respect caller cancellation and deadlines.
- Treat concurrency as backend policy rather than a profile-level model
setting.
- Keep the queue ephemeral and in-process, with no survival guarantee across
engine or process shutdown.
- Preserve the existing execution model as far as practical. Durable jobs,
polling, priorities, application worker lifecycle, retries, and
cross-process coordination would be separate future capabilities.
### Explicit per-run session and reasoning controls
Allow consumers to associate a session ID with each run and to inherit,
replace, or explicitly disable the reasoning effort configured by its selected
profile. Prompt definitions can currently derive a session ID from a template,
and a non-empty runtime `ReasoningEffort` can replace the profile value, but
there is no direct request-level session ID and an empty reasoning value means
that no override was supplied. These controls would let consumers reuse one
prompt and model profile across sessions and reasoning levels without
maintaining duplicate definitions.
- Preserve a prompt's session ID template and a profile's reasoning effort as
reusable defaults.
- Let a directly supplied per-run session ID take precedence over a rendered
prompt default while retaining the existing validation limit and outbound
representation.
- Distinguish an omitted runtime reasoning choice from an explicit request to
disable reasoning.
- Ensure disabling reasoning omits the corresponding provider request setting
rather than relying on a provider-specific magic value.
- Keep the effective session ID and reasoning choice visible in prepared and
run metadata and available to injected model clients without introducing
additional prompt or profile selection mechanisms.
## Entry Format
Use a short heading followed by a concise summary. Add focused bullets when
they help preserve important scope boundaries without becoming an
implementation plan:
```markdown
### Idea name
Describe the intended capability, who benefits, and the most important scope
boundary or dependency.
- Optionally record an important behavior or boundary.
```