Clarify future roadmap documentation

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## Automatic Storm Monitoring
Manual Storm Report generation is implemented through
`weatherreporter generate storm --start TIME --end TIME`. Automatic storm-event
evaluation remains deferred.
Manual Storm Report generation is available through:
Proposed direction:
```sh
weatherreporter generate storm --start TIME --end TIME
```
1. detect candidate events deterministically from alerts, forecast discussion,
weather story context, hourly thresholds, and material forecast changes;
2. evaluate candidates through Scriptorium or another narrow evaluator adapter;
3. persist storm lifecycle state;
4. generate or update Storm Reports only when a meaningful event is present;
5. suppress ordinary low-impact thunder or rain chances.
Automatic storm-event evaluation is not implemented.
Possible direction:
1. Detect candidate storm events from alerts, forecast discussion, weather
story context, hourly thresholds, and material forecast changes.
2. Evaluate candidates through Scriptorium or another narrow evaluator adapter.
3. Persist storm lifecycle state.
4. Generate or update Storm Reports only when a meaningful event is present.
5. Suppress ordinary low-impact thunder or rain chances.
Possible lifecycle states:
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- `deescalating`
- `resolved`
Acceptance criteria before implementation:
Before implementation, the design must preserve scheduled report behavior,
manual Storm Report generation, inspectable evaluator failures, and fixture
coverage for deterministic candidate detection.
- scheduled reports and manual Storm Reports remain stable;
- candidate detection has fixture coverage;
- evaluator failures are inspectable and do not create noisy report output;
- manual Storm Report generation remains available.
## Future Report Types And Modules
The module-based prompt package architecture is implemented. Future work should
add only modules backed by implemented upstream facts and clear report needs.
## Future Report Types
Possible future report types:
- another short-fuse planning report distinct from the implemented Hourly
Report, if a separate product is needed;
- event-specific reports with stable event IDs;
- storm review or yesterday-style reports using historical observations;
- a short-fuse planning report distinct from the implemented Hourly Report, if
a separate product is needed
- event-specific reports with stable event IDs
- storm review or yesterday-style reports using historical observations
- archive-focused report variants if generated report history becomes a
first-class product.
first-class product
New reports should keep report identity, prompt IDs, templates, valid-period
resolution, artifact grouping, batch output names, and comparison policy inside
`internal/report`.
## Future Modules
Possible future modules:
- `hourly_table` for compact valid-period hourly facts;
- `hourly_table` for compact valid-period hourly facts
- `forecast_delta` if a separate stanza is useful beyond current Recent
Changes;
Changes
- `weekend_planning` if weekend-specific planning guidance needs a dedicated
deterministic stanza;
deterministic stanza
- `storm_window_summary` if manual or automatic Storm Reports need a dedicated
prompt-facing storm-window module;
prompt-facing storm-window module
- separate AFD section aliases, such as `afd_key_messages`,
`afd_short_term_text`, and `afd_long_term_text`, if separate stanzas prove
more useful than `area_forecast_discussion.options.sections`;
more useful than `area_forecast_discussion.options.sections`
- SPC, radar, QPF, snow/rain total, or historical-observation modules once
upstream sources and report requirements exist.
upstream sources and report requirements exist
QPF fields such as `measurable_qpf_total_in` and `max_hourly_qpf_in` should
remain omitted until a real upstream quantitative precipitation source is
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Future module work should preserve these boundaries:
- collect upstream facts once per report run;
- keep upstream fetching out of modules;
- keep broad reusable calculations in `DerivedFacts`;
- keep prompt-facing field shape inside module builders;
- use typed options for configurable module behavior;
- keep module snapshots structured and deterministic for Recent Changes.
- collect upstream facts once per report run
- keep upstream fetching out of modules
- keep broad reusable calculations in `DerivedFacts`
- keep prompt-facing field shape inside module builders
- use typed options for configurable module behavior
- keep module snapshots structured and deterministic for Recent Changes
## Distributor Notification Enhancements
Distributor notification currently uploads one managed Markdown report per
successful generated report through the configured HTTP upload pipeline.
Distributor notification uploads one managed Markdown report per successful
generated report through the configured HTTP upload pipeline. The following
enhancements are not implemented:
These enhancements are not current behavior:
- `failure_policy: warn`
- uploading metadata, module snapshots, data packages, or preflight artifacts
- durable upload retry queues
- distributor-specific CLI flags
- distributor workspace scanning
- destination routing, Markdown-to-HTML transformation, public URLs, or nginx
layout inside weatherreporter
- `failure_policy: warn`;
- uploading metadata, module snapshots, data packages, or preflight artifacts;
- durable upload retry queues;
- distributor-specific CLI flags;
- making distributor scan the weatherreporter workspace;
- handling destination routing, Markdown-to-HTML transformation, public URLs,
or nginx layout inside weatherreporter.
Any distributor enhancement should preserve the existing adapter boundary:
Any distributor enhancement should preserve the adapter boundary:
weatherreporter selects explicit generated files and submits source bundles,
while distributor owns destination routing and publication behavior.
## Alternate Runtime Integrations
These ideas are not current behavior:
These ideas are not implemented:
- native LLM client inside `weatherreporter`;
- database-backed state;
- public HTTP API;
- multi-location selection;
- daemon mode;
- multi-user authorization;
- plugin system;
- dynamic module loading;
- user-defined module code;
- YAML-defined module schemas;
- module-owned Weather API fetching.
- native LLM client inside `weatherreporter`
- database-backed state
- public HTTP API
- multi-location selection
- daemon mode
- multi-user authorization
- plugin system
- dynamic module loading
- user-defined module code
- YAML-defined module schemas
- module-owned Weather API fetching
Each item needs its own design note before implementation. Non-roadmap docs
must not describe these as available behavior.
## Cleanup Refactors
## Deferred Refactors
The initial cleanup pass intentionally left these refactors out because the
current implementation does not yet make them worth the added abstraction.
These refactors should remain deferred until new requirements or recurring
maintenance costs make the added abstraction worthwhile:
Revisit these only when new source types, report types, operational
requirements, or recurring maintenance costs make the duplication materially
more expensive:
- Broad briefing weather-signal consolidation: consider when multiple module
builders repeatedly derive the same weather signals and tests begin to need
coordinated fixture updates.
- Generic workflow engine: defer unless generation, inspection, recovery, or
future background workflows gain enough shared step semantics to justify a
declared execution model.
- Cobra migration: defer while the standard-library CLI remains small,
explicit, and covered by parser tests.
- Manifest, resume, or progress system: defer until operators need resumable
runs, checkpoint recovery, or richer audit trails than the current durable
artifacts and metadata provide.
- Global test helper package: defer while package-local helpers keep tests
clear; revisit only if setup duplication starts to hide behavior.
- Logging subsystem: defer until there are recurring operator diagnostics that
cannot be handled with current errors, metadata, inspection commands, and
artifact output.
- broad briefing weather-signal consolidation
- generic workflow engine
- Cobra migration
- manifest, resume, or progress system
- global test helper package
- logging subsystem
Any future implementation should preserve the existing public CLI, artifact
paths, report identities, module boundaries, and adapter boundaries unless a