# FlowMason P5-P6 Roadmap

**Version:** Implementation Complete
**Date:** December 2025
**Status:** ✅ All Features Implemented

---

## Executive Summary

This roadmap covers 9 future features organized into two new milestones:
- **P5 - Platform Evolution**: Infrastructure, developer experience, and AI integration
- **P6 - Distributed Execution**: Edge deployment and federated execution

All features build on the existing FlowMason architecture and are now part of v1.0.0.

---

## Feature Dependencies Graph

```
                    ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────┐
                    │              P5 - Platform Evolution         │
                    ├─────────────────────────────────────────────┤
                    │                                             │
  ┌─────────────────┼──────────────────┐                         │
  │                 │                  │                         │
  ▼                 ▼                  ▼                         │
┌─────────┐   ┌──────────┐   ┌─────────────────┐                │
│Pipeline │   │Visual    │   │AI Co-pilot      │                │
│Inherit- │   │Diff/Merge│   │Integration      │                │
│ance     │   │          │   │                 │                │
└────┬────┘   └────┬─────┘   └────────┬────────┘                │
     │             │                  │                         │
     │             │                  ▼                         │
     │             │         ┌─────────────────┐                │
     │             │         │Natural Language │                │
     │             │         │Triggers         │                │
     │             │         └─────────────────┘                │
     │             │                                            │
     │             ▼                                            │
     │      ┌──────────────┐   ┌─────────────────┐              │
     │      │Visual Debug  │   │Kubernetes       │              │
     │      │(Animated)    │   │Operator         │              │
     │      └──────────────┘   └─────────────────┘              │
     │                                                          │
     └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

                    ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────┐
                    │           P6 - Distributed Execution         │
                    ├─────────────────────────────────────────────┤
                    │                                             │
                    │   ┌─────────────┐                           │
                    │   │Edge         │                           │
                    │   │Deployment   │                           │
                    │   └──────┬──────┘                           │
                    │          │                                  │
                    │          ▼                                  │
                    │   ┌─────────────┐                           │
                    │   │Federated    │                           │
                    │   │Execution    │                           │
                    │   └─────────────┘                           │
                    │                                             │
                    │   ┌─────────────┐                           │
                    │   │Mobile       │ (Independent)             │
                    │   │Companion    │                           │
                    │   └─────────────┘                           │
                    └─────────────────────────────────────────────┘
```

---

## Milestone Overview

| Milestone | Features | Total Effort |
|-----------|----------|--------------|
| **P5 - Platform Evolution** | 6 features | 300-420 hours |
| **P6 - Distributed Execution** | 3 features | 220-280 hours |
| **Total** | 9 features | 520-680 hours |

---

## P5 - Platform Evolution

### 5.1 Pipeline Inheritance & Composition
**Effort:** High (40-60 hours) | **Priority:** 1 | **Status:** ✅ Complete

Enable pipelines to extend base pipelines and compose reusable sub-pipelines.

#### Concept
```json
// base-etl.pipeline.json
{
  "name": "base-etl",
  "abstract": true,
  "stages": [
    { "id": "validate", "component_type": "schema_validate" },
    { "id": "transform", "component_type": "abstract" },
    { "id": "output", "component_type": "logger" }
  ]
}

// customer-etl.pipeline.json
{
  "name": "customer-etl",
  "extends": "base-etl",
  "overrides": {
    "transform": {
      "component_type": "json_transform",
      "config": { "mapping": "..." }
    }
  }
}
```

#### New Files
```
core/flowmason_core/inheritance/
├── __init__.py
├── resolver.py          # Resolves inheritance chain
├── merger.py            # Merges parent/child configs
└── validator.py         # Validates inheritance rules
```

#### Schema Changes
- `extends`: Parent pipeline reference
- `abstract`: Cannot be executed directly
- `overrides`: Stage overrides by ID
- `compositions`: Inline sub-pipeline references

#### Implementation Steps
1. Add `InheritanceResolver` class
2. Add `PipelineMerger` for parent/child merging
3. Update `DAGExecutor` for composition stages
4. Add circular inheritance validation
5. Update VSCode extension visualization
6. Add `fm validate --check-inheritance` CLI

---

### 5.2 Visual Pipeline Diff & Merge
**Effort:** High (50-70 hours) | **Priority:** 2 | **Status:** ✅ Complete

Git-style diff and merge for pipeline files with visual representation.

#### Concept
```
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  Pipeline Diff: main.pipeline.json                              │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│  ┌─────────┐     ┌─────────┐     ┌─────────┐   BASE            │
│  │ fetch   │────▶│ process │────▶│ output  │                   │
│  └─────────┘     └─────────┘     └─────────┘                   │
│                                                                 │
│  ┌─────────┐     ┌─────────┐     ┌─────────┐     ┌─────────┐   │
│  │ fetch   │────▶│ validate│────▶│ process │────▶│ output  │   │
│  └─────────┘     └─────────┘     └─────────┘     └─────────┘   │
│                  ▲ ADDED                                 THEIRS │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│  + Added stage: validate (schema_validate)                      │
│  ~ Modified: process.config.temperature: 0.7 → 0.9              │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
```

#### New Files
```
core/flowmason_core/diff/
├── __init__.py
├── pipeline_diff.py      # Structural diff
├── stage_diff.py         # Stage-level diff
└── merge.py              # Three-way merge

vscode-extension/src/diff/
├── pipelineDiffProvider.ts
├── pipelineMergeProvider.ts
└── diffDecorations.ts
```

#### Implementation Steps
1. Implement `PipelineDiffer` class
2. Implement `PipelineMerger` with three-way merge
3. Create VSCode custom diff editor
4. Add visual DAG diff decorations
5. Integrate with git hooks
6. Add `fm diff` and `fm merge` CLI

---

### 5.3 AI Co-pilot Integration
**Effort:** High (60-80 hours) | **Priority:** 3 | **Status:** ✅ Complete

Deep AI integration for pipeline design assistance.

#### Concept
```
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  AI Co-pilot                                              [Ask] │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│  User: "Add error handling to the API call stage"               │
│                                                                 │
│  Co-pilot: I'll wrap the http-request stage in a trycatch       │
│  with retry logic. Here's my suggestion:                        │
│                                                                 │
│  + trycatch: api-with-retry                                     │
│    ├── try: http-request (existing)                             │
│    ├── catch: error-handler (new)                               │
│    └── retry: 3 attempts, exponential backoff                   │
│                                                                 │
│  [Apply Changes]  [Modify]  [Explain]  [Reject]                │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
```

#### API Endpoints
```
POST /api/v1/copilot/suggest     # Get AI suggestion
POST /api/v1/copilot/explain     # Explain pipeline/stage
POST /api/v1/copilot/generate    # Generate from description
POST /api/v1/copilot/optimize    # Suggest optimizations
POST /api/v1/copilot/debug       # Help debug issues
```

#### New Files
```
core/flowmason_core/copilot/
├── __init__.py
├── context.py            # Pipeline context for LLM
├── prompts.py            # System prompts
├── suggestions.py        # Suggestion generation
└── applier.py            # Apply suggestions

studio/flowmason_studio/api/routes/copilot.py
studio/flowmason_studio/services/copilot_service.py

vscode-extension/src/copilot/
├── copilotPanel.ts       # Sidebar panel
├── inlineAssist.ts       # Inline suggestions
└── commands.ts           # Co-pilot commands
```

#### Implementation Steps
1. Create `CopilotService` with Claude/GPT
2. Design context serialization
3. Implement suggestion parsing/validation
4. Create VSCode sidebar panel
5. Add inline suggestions in DAG canvas
6. Add "explain this" hover
7. Add Cmd+K keyboard shortcuts

---

### 5.4 Natural Language Triggers
**Effort:** Medium (30-40 hours) | **Priority:** 4 | **Status:** ✅ Complete

Trigger pipelines using natural language commands.

#### Usage
```bash
# CLI
fm run "process the sales data from yesterday"
fm run "generate a summary of customer feedback"

# API
POST /api/v1/run/natural
{
  "command": "send daily report to the marketing team",
  "context": { "date": "2025-12-14" }
}
```

#### Pipeline Metadata
```json
{
  "name": "daily-sales-report",
  "triggers": {
    "natural_language": {
      "patterns": [
        "generate sales report",
        "sales summary for {date}"
      ],
      "entities": {
        "date": { "type": "date", "default": "today" }
      }
    }
  }
}
```

#### New Files
```
core/flowmason_core/nlp/
├── __init__.py
├── intent_parser.py      # Parse NL to intent
├── pipeline_matcher.py   # Match intent to pipeline
└── input_extractor.py    # Extract inputs

studio/flowmason_studio/api/routes/natural.py
studio/flowmason_studio/services/nl_service.py
```

---

### 5.5 Visual Debugging (Animated Execution)
**Effort:** Medium (40-50 hours) | **Priority:** 5 | **Status:** ✅ Complete

Animated visualization of pipeline execution flow.

#### Concept
```
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  Execution Visualization                          [▶ Play] [⏸] │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│  ┌─────────┐  ═══▶  ┌─────────┐  ───▶  ┌─────────┐            │
│  │ fetch   │  data  │ process │        │ output  │            │
│  │ ✓ 1.2s  │  ════▶ │ ⟳ 45%   │        │ ○ wait  │            │
│  └─────────┘        └─────────┘        └─────────┘            │
│                          │                                      │
│                     Tokens: 234/1000                           │
│                     "Processing customer..."                    │
│                                                                 │
│  Timeline: ═══════════════●═══════════════════════════════     │
│            0s            2.5s                           10s     │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
```

#### Features
- Data flow arrows with animations
- Token streaming overlay on LLM stages
- Timeline scrubber for replay
- Speed controls (0.5x, 1x, 2x, 4x)
- Export recordings as video/GIF

#### New Files
```
vscode-extension/src/visualization/
├── executionAnimator.ts
├── dataFlowRenderer.ts
├── tokenStreamOverlay.ts
└── timelineController.ts

studio/frontend/src/components/
├── ExecutionVisualization.tsx
├── DataFlowAnimation.tsx
└── TimelinePlayer.tsx
```

---

### 5.6 Kubernetes Operator
**Effort:** Very High (80-100 hours) | **Priority:** 6 | **Status:** ✅ Complete

Deploy and manage FlowMason pipelines as Kubernetes resources.

#### Custom Resource Definition
```yaml
apiVersion: flowmason.io/v1
kind: Pipeline
metadata:
  name: data-processor
  namespace: production
spec:
  source:
    configMap: data-processor-config
  schedule: "0 * * * *"
  resources:
    requests:
      memory: "256Mi"
      cpu: "100m"
  env:
    - name: ANTHROPIC_API_KEY
      valueFrom:
        secretKeyRef:
          name: llm-secrets
          key: anthropic-key
```

#### New Repository: `flowmason-operator/`
```
flowmason-operator/
├── api/v1/
│   ├── pipeline_types.go
│   ├── pipelinerun_types.go
│   └── groupversion_info.go
├── controllers/
│   ├── pipeline_controller.go
│   └── pipelinerun_controller.go
├── config/
│   ├── crd/bases/
│   ├── rbac/
│   └── manager/
├── Dockerfile
├── Makefile
└── go.mod
```

#### Custom Resources
1. `Pipeline` - Pipeline definition and scheduling
2. `PipelineRun` - Individual execution instance
3. `PipelineTemplate` - Reusable templates

---

## P6 - Distributed Execution

### 6.1 Edge Deployment
**Effort:** High (60-80 hours) | **Priority:** 7 | **Status:** ✅ Complete

Run pipelines on edge devices with limited connectivity.

#### Architecture
```
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                         CLOUD                                   │
│  ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐   │
│  │  FlowMason Studio (Central)                              │   │
│  │  - Pipeline registry                                     │   │
│  │  - Execution history sync                                │   │
│  │  - Edge device management                                │   │
│  └────────────────────────┬────────────────────────────────┘   │
└───────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────┘
                            │ Sync (when connected)
        ┌───────────────────┼───────────────────┐
        ▼                   ▼                   ▼
┌───────────────┐   ┌───────────────┐   ┌───────────────┐
│  Edge Node 1  │   │  Edge Node 2  │   │  Edge Node 3  │
│  (Raspberry)  │   │  (Jetson)     │   │  (Industrial) │
│  ┌─────────┐  │   │  ┌─────────┐  │   │  ┌─────────┐  │
│  │Pipeline │  │   │  │Pipeline │  │   │  │Pipeline │  │
│  │Cache    │  │   │  │Cache    │  │   │  │Cache    │  │
│  └─────────┘  │   │  └─────────┘  │   │  └─────────┘  │
└───────────────┘   └───────────────┘   └───────────────┘
```

#### New Package: `flowmason-edge/`
```
flowmason-edge/
├── runtime/
│   ├── edge_executor.py      # Lightweight executor
│   ├── offline_cache.py      # Pipeline/model caching
│   └── sync_manager.py       # Cloud sync
├── adapters/
│   ├── local_llm.py          # Ollama/llama.cpp
│   └── quantized.py          # Quantized models
├── deployment/
│   ├── docker-arm64.dockerfile
│   └── install.sh
└── cli/edge_cli.py
```

#### Features
- Offline-first execution
- Local LLM support (Ollama, llama.cpp)
- Model caching and quantization
- Store-and-forward for results
- Resource-constrained execution

---

### 6.2 Federated Execution
**Effort:** Very High (100-120 hours) | **Priority:** 8 | **Status:** ✅ Complete

Distribute pipeline execution across multiple clouds/regions.

#### Concept
```
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  Pipeline: global-data-processor                                │
│                                                                 │
│  ┌─────────┐     ┌─────────────────────────────────┐           │
│  │ ingest  │────▶│     PARALLEL FEDERATION         │           │
│  │ (local) │     │  ┌───────┐ ┌───────┐ ┌───────┐ │           │
│  └─────────┘     │  │US-EAST│ │EU-WEST│ │AP-EAST│ │           │
│                  │  │process│ │process│ │process│ │           │
│                  │  └───┬───┘ └───┬───┘ └───┬───┘ │           │
│                  └──────┼─────────┼─────────┼─────┘           │
│                         └─────────┼─────────┘                  │
│                                   ▼                            │
│                            ┌───────────┐                       │
│                            │  aggregate │                       │
│                            └───────────┘                       │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
```

#### Federation Config
```json
{
  "stages": [{
    "id": "process-data",
    "component_type": "transformer",
    "federation": {
      "strategy": "parallel",
      "regions": ["us-east-1", "eu-west-1", "ap-northeast-1"],
      "data_locality": true,
      "aggregation": "merge"
    }
  }]
}
```

#### New Files
```
core/flowmason_core/federation/
├── __init__.py
├── coordinator.py        # Central coordination
├── remote_executor.py    # Cross-region execution
├── data_router.py        # Data routing
└── consensus.py          # Distributed state

studio/flowmason_studio/api/routes/federation.py
studio/flowmason_studio/services/federation_service.py
```

---

### 6.3 Mobile Companion App
**Effort:** High (60-80 hours) | **Priority:** 9 | **Status:** ✅ Complete

Monitor and trigger pipelines from mobile devices.

#### Features
- Pipeline monitoring dashboard
- Push notifications for completions/failures
- Quick trigger for favorite pipelines
- Execution history and logs
- Voice commands (Siri/Google Assistant)

#### New Repository: `flowmason-mobile/`
```
flowmason-mobile/
├── src/
│   ├── screens/
│   │   ├── Dashboard.tsx
│   │   ├── PipelineList.tsx
│   │   ├── PipelineDetail.tsx
│   │   └── Settings.tsx
│   ├── services/
│   │   ├── api.ts
│   │   └── notifications.ts
│   └── App.tsx
├── ios/
├── android/
└── package.json
```

---

## Implementation Phases

### Phase 1: Foundation
| Feature | Effort | Dependencies |
|---------|--------|--------------|
| Pipeline Inheritance & Composition | 40-60h | None |
| Visual Pipeline Diff & Merge | 50-70h | None |
| AI Co-pilot Integration | 60-80h | None |

### Phase 2: Enhancement
| Feature | Effort | Dependencies |
|---------|--------|--------------|
| Natural Language Triggers | 30-40h | AI Co-pilot |
| Visual Debugging (Animated) | 40-50h | Diff/Merge |
| Kubernetes Operator | 80-100h | None |

### Phase 3: Scale
| Feature | Effort | Dependencies |
|---------|--------|--------------|
| Edge Deployment | 60-80h | None |
| Federated Execution | 100-120h | Edge Deployment |
| Mobile Companion App | 60-80h | None |

---

## Effort Summary

| Feature | Effort (hours) | Phase |
|---------|---------------|-------|
| Pipeline Inheritance & Composition | 40-60 | 1 |
| Visual Pipeline Diff & Merge | 50-70 | 1 |
| AI Co-pilot Integration | 60-80 | 1 |
| Natural Language Triggers | 30-40 | 2 |
| Visual Debugging (Animated) | 40-50 | 2 |
| Kubernetes Operator | 80-100 | 2 |
| Edge Deployment | 60-80 | 3 |
| Federated Execution | 100-120 | 3 |
| Mobile Companion App | 60-80 | 3 |
| **Total** | **520-680** | |

---

## Critical Files to Modify

### Core Framework
- `core/flowmason_core/execution/dag_executor.py`
- `core/flowmason_core/config/types.py`
- `core/flowmason_core/registry/`

### Studio Backend
- `studio/flowmason_studio/api/app.py`
- `studio/flowmason_studio/services/`

### VSCode Extension
- `vscode-extension/src/editors/dagCanvasProvider.ts`
- `vscode-extension/src/debug/`
- `vscode-extension/package.json`

### New Packages (to create)
- `flowmason-operator/` - Kubernetes operator (Go)
- `flowmason-edge/` - Edge runtime (Python)
- `flowmason-mobile/` - Mobile app (React Native)
