This document outlines the development roadmap for Agent Control Plane in 2026 and beyond. Our vision is to establish the leading open-source governance and safety layer for autonomous AI agents in production environments.
Current Version: v1.1.0
Status: Early Production Ready / Competitive Open-Source Quality
Focus: Addressing critical gaps for enterprise adoption and research credibility
- PyPI Package Publishing - Enable
pip install agent-control-plane- Set up automated PyPI publishing workflow
- Configure Test PyPI for pre-release testing
- Add PyPI badges and installation instructions
- GitHub Releases & Versioning - Formal release management
- Create v1.1.0 release with comprehensive notes
- Automated release creation on version tags
- Semantic versioning enforcement
- Documentation Portal (Started)
- Deploy docs to ReadTheDocs or GitHub Pages
- API reference with auto-generated docstrings
- Interactive examples and tutorials
- Public Roadmap - This document!
- GitHub Discussions - Enable community forum
- Issue Templates - Comprehensive templates (bug, feature, security)
- Contributor Recognition
- Add CONTRIBUTORS.md
- Implement all-contributors bot
- Monthly contributor highlights
- Community Engagement
- Submit to Awesome AI Safety lists
- Publish blog posts / technical articles
- Present at AI safety meetups/conferences
- High-Concurrency Benchmarks
- Ray-based distributed testing
- Kubernetes deployment examples
- Load testing with 1000+ concurrent agents
- Async/Await Improvements
- Full async/await support across all adapters
- Async context management
- Performance profiling and optimization
- ML-Based Intent Classification
- Fine-tuned classifier for intent understanding
- Embedding-based similarity detection for prompt analysis
- Integration with SentenceTransformers
- Constitutional Fine-Tuning Hooks
- RLHF integration for value alignment
- LoRA adapters for constitutional principles
- Feedback collection pipeline
- Multi-Turn Red-Teaming
- Long-context adversarial scenarios (10+ turns)
- Persistent attack detection across conversations
- Memory-based threat analysis
- Privacy Enhancements
- Differential Privacy with Opacus integration
- Federated learning support for distributed agents
- Advanced PII detection and anonymization
- Compliance Mapping Extensions
- EU AI Act Article-by-Article mapping
- SOC 2 Type II automated evidence collection
- NIST AI Risk Management Framework support
- Audit & Reporting
- Compliance dashboard with real-time status
- Automated audit report generation
- Evidence collection for regulatory submissions
- Enterprise SSO & RBAC
- SAML/OAuth integration
- Fine-grained role-based access control
- Multi-tenancy support
- Vision Capabilities Enhancement
- GPT-4V, Claude Vision, LLaVA integration
- Image safety classification (NSFW, violence, etc.)
- OCR and document understanding
- Audio Processing
- Whisper integration for transcription
- Audio content moderation
- Real-time audio streaming governance
- Video Understanding
- Frame-by-frame analysis
- Video content moderation
- Temporal constraint enforcement
- Vector Store Ecosystem
- Production-ready Pinecone, Weaviate, Qdrant integrations
- Hybrid search (semantic + keyword)
- Metadata filtering and faceted search
- Document Processing
- PDF, Word, PowerPoint parsing
- Citation extraction and tracking
- Knowledge graph construction
- Advanced RAG Patterns
- Query decomposition and routing
- Multi-hop reasoning
- Fact verification and source validation
- Production Monitoring
- Grafana dashboard templates
- Real-time alerting with PagerDuty/Opsgenie
- Cost tracking and optimization recommendations
- Distributed Tracing
- Full OpenTelemetry integration
- Jaeger/Zipkin exporters
- Cross-service trace propagation
- Streamlit Dashboard
- Real-time governance metrics visualization
- Interactive policy testing
- Agent behavior analytics
- Tool Marketplace
- Curated catalog of governed tools (200+ tools)
- Community-contributed tool registry
- Risk-scored tool recommendations
- Auto-Discovery
- Automatic tool schema extraction
- Dynamic risk assessment
- LangChain tool compatibility layer
- Plugin System
- Custom policy plugins
- Custom execution engines
- Custom governance layers
- Academic Collaborations
- Joint research projects with universities
- Peer-reviewed paper submissions
- Workshop organization at major AI conferences
- Novel Safety Techniques
- Formal verification of agent behavior
- Provably safe agent architectures
- Game-theoretic multi-agent safety
- Standard Protocols
- Agent governance protocol specification
- Open standard for agent safety (contribute to IEEE/ISO)
- Interoperability with major AI platforms
- Enterprise Partnerships
- Pilot programs with Fortune 500 companies
- Industry-specific governance templates
- Professional services and support offerings
- Performance: <10ms latency overhead for policy checks
- Safety: 0% critical violations in production deployments
- Reliability: 99.9% uptime for governance services
- Scalability: Support 100,000+ agents in production
- Adoption: 1,000+ GitHub stars by Q2 2026
- Contributors: 20+ active contributors by Q3 2026
- Downloads: 10,000+ PyPI monthly downloads by Q4 2026
- Production Users: 50+ organizations using in production by end of 2026
- Citations: 10+ academic citations by end of 2026
- Publications: 2+ peer-reviewed papers
- Talks: 5+ conference/meetup presentations
We welcome contributions across all roadmap areas! See CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines.
- Testing & Benchmarking - Expand test coverage and real-world scenarios
- Integrations - Add new LLM provider or framework adapters
- Documentation - Tutorials, guides, and API documentation
- Examples - Production-ready example applications
- Performance - Optimization and scalability improvements
- Check this roadmap to see if your idea aligns with our direction
- Open a Feature Request
- Join Discussions to discuss major changes
This roadmap is a living document and evolves based on:
- Community feedback and requests
- Emerging AI safety research
- Industry requirements and standards
- Technological advancements
Have suggestions? Open an issue or discussion to share your thoughts!
Last Updated: January 18, 2026
Next Review: April 1, 2026