Future opportunity research

Problem

The context catalog roadmap beyond v1.2 has no structured record of potential opportunities — novel metadata sources, new AI agent integration patterns, cross-product context sharing, or advanced enrichment capabilities. Without a curated research log that evaluates opportunities against user impact and strategic fit, future planning will be reactive rather than deliberate, and high-value ideas raised during earlier milestones will be lost rather than captured for later evaluation.

Context

• There are plausible future bets for context schema/catalog contracts and Nimble enrichment flows across product surfaces, but they should be captured as concrete opportunities with user value and strategic fit rather than as loose brainstorming.
• This task should separate genuinely promising directions from attractive-but-vague ideas and tie each candidate to the product or platform outcomes it could improve.
• Expected touchpoints include dataface/ai/, context-contract docs, eval wiring, and inspect-derived artifacts, roadmap notes, adjacent workstream dependencies, and any evidence from users that points toward a longer-horizon opportunity.

Possible Solutions

• A - Keep future ideas as an unstructured backlog list: easy to collect, but hard to prioritize or revisit intelligently.
• B - Recommended: turn future ideas into structured opportunity notes: describe user value, strategic rationale, dependencies, and why each idea is worth considering later.
• C - Skip future opportunity work until all near-term milestones are complete: lowers distraction, but loses useful strategic context.

Plan

1. Gather the strongest future ideas for context schema/catalog contracts and Nimble enrichment flows across product surfaces from roadmap discussions, usage feedback, and adjacent workstream needs.
2. Write a structured note for each opportunity covering user value, likely scope, dependencies, and the signals that would justify investment.
3. Rank the opportunities relative to each other and explicitly note which ones are interesting but not yet credible.
4. Link the top opportunities to prerequisite or experiment tasks so they can mature without being mistaken for near-term commitments.

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