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Ravel Roadmap

Source: ROADMAP.md

Phase 1: Foundation

  • Package scaffold, metadata, and addin registration
  • Foundational docs and contribution guidance
  • Provider interface and registry
  • Auth abstraction and settings store
  • Action history format

Phase 2: Core experience

  • RStudio chat gadget
  • OpenAI API end-to-end provider
  • Context gathering for scripts, selections, objects, and session info
  • Basic action proposal flow for generated R code
  • Initial tests and CI

Phase 3: Analysis-native workflows

  • Model-aware summarization for lm, glm, and formula-rich workflows
  • Diagnostic suggestion helpers
  • Quarto / R Markdown drafting helpers
  • Safer execution previews and file-edit staging
  • Better context compression for large workspaces

Phase 4: More providers

  • Gemini API completion support
  • Anthropic API completion support
  • GitHub Copilot CLI integration polish
  • OpenAI Codex CLI bridge for login-first local workflows
  • Provider-specific model selection and capability discovery

Phase 5: Posit-native polish

  • Guided first-run setup assistant with live provider verification
  • Better document insertion and patch previews in RStudio
  • Settings UX for auth and provider defaults
  • Conversation/session persistence across projects
  • More plot-aware and console-aware tooling
  • Easier release distribution through R-universe, then CRAN readiness
  • Vignettes, examples, and contributor docs

Phase 6: Agentic actions

  • Structured file edit proposals
  • Project-aware search and selective file reads
  • Safer multi-step plans with approval checkpoints
  • Reproducible reporting pipelines
  • Model comparison workflows with explicit diagnostics