roadmap-suggestions

Roadmap Suggestions

Review a One Horizon workspace and suggest how to improve roadmap structure, sequencing, and scope.

Core rules

• Default to suggestions only. Do not mutate roadmap items unless the user explicitly asks you to apply changes.
• Ground every recommendation in current workspace data, not generic startup advice.
• Prefer 3-5 high-signal suggestions over an exhaustive dump unless the user asks for a full audit.
• If the roadmap is sparse, use planned work, blockers, bugs, and taxonomy to propose a starter roadmap.
• Do not invent missing initiatives from weak signals. If the evidence is thin, label it as a hypothesis.
• Do not recommend a work-type conversion unless you can explain why the current type is wrong and which type fits better.

Gather context

1. Call list-initiatives with active statuses and includeHierarchy: true.
2. Call list-planned-work with includeInitiatives: true.
3. Call list-bugs for active bugs when defect pressure may imply missing roadmap investment.
4. Call list-blockers with includeInitiatives: true.
5. Call list-taxonomy when the workspace uses goals, products, releases, or components, or when category-like initiatives may really be taxonomy.
6. If a recommendation depends on a specific item, call get-task-details before suggesting a reframe.
7. Use search-tasks when you need to confirm a repeated theme across the workspace.

Decision rubric

Before giving a recommendation, classify it into exactly one of these buckets:

• Hierarchy: parent-child reshaping, merge, dedupe, or split.
• Work type: initiative vs taxonomy vs ongoing work vs bug vs feature request vs personal task.
• Coverage: missing roadmap investment or missing foundational work.
• Sequencing: roadmap order is likely wrong or incomplete.
• Tagging: taxonomy is missing or misused.

Only surface a recommendation when at least one of these is true:

• There are at least 2 supporting signals across initiatives, planned work, blockers, bugs, or taxonomy.
• There is 1 strong signal from get-task-details that clearly contradicts the current roadmap shape.
• The same gap or mismatch appears in multiple related tasks.

Heuristics

Hierarchy

• Suggest parent and child reshaping when there are flat lists of tightly related initiatives, mismatched children, or child items that are really standalone efforts.
• Suggest merging or deduplicating initiatives with overlapping titles, scope, or outcomes.
• Suggest splitting initiatives that bundle multiple products, goals, or delivery tracks.

Work type

• Suggest taxonomy when the item behaves like a reusable label or grouping concept such as a product area, customer, market, or goal rather than a deliverable.
• Suggest ongoing work when the item is recurring and owner-driven with no clear end state.
• Suggest a bug or feature request when the item is really issue intake rather than planned roadmap work.
• Suggest a personal task only for small private follow-up work, not roadmap items.

Coverage and maturity

• Suggest missing initiatives when blockers, bugs, or planned work cluster around the same gap.
• Suggest sequencing changes when later work depends on missing foundations such as auth, testing, onboarding, or integrations.
• Call out where the roadmap is under-tagged or under-grouped relative to existing taxonomy.

Response shape

• Summary: 2-4 sentences on the current roadmap quality, maturity, and biggest pattern.
• Suggestions: for each recommendation, use this format:
  • Type: one bucket from the decision rubric
  • Change: the exact change to make
  • Evidence: the concrete tasks, blockers, bugs, taxonomy, or hierarchy pattern that support it
  • Why: why this improves the roadmap
  • Confidence: High, Medium, or Low
• Missing initiatives: include only when there are clear gaps, with concrete initiative titles.
• Hypotheses: include only low-confidence ideas that may be useful but are not well supported yet.
• Next step: ask whether to apply any subset using One Horizon tools.

Quality bar

• Be direct. Do not pad the answer with roadmap theory.
• Prefer specific initiative titles over abstract categories.
• If the workspace already looks coherent, say so and suggest only the smallest useful improvements.
• If there is not enough evidence for a confident recommendation, say what is missing.

If the user wants changes applied

• Use update-initiative for hierarchy, title, status, team, assignee, or taxonomy changes.
• Use create-initiative for new roadmap items.
• Use create-todo only when the recommendation is really a private follow-up.
• Add a task comment when you materially reframe an existing initiative so the reasoning is visible.
• Never rewrite descriptions just to log progress.