/roadmap — Product Roadmap

Read .claude/rules/writing-standard.md. Use the controlled technical writing profile for roadmap artefacts: keep decisions, uncertainty, and next actions clear and concise.

Manage the product roadmap as a single durable file. The skill is intentionally low-ceremony: a roadmap is a markdown file with milestones, each containing a table of items. /roadmap reads it, edits it, and renders it.

Path resolution

Read the registry path via portfolio_registry, the per-project docs dir via portfolio_projects_dir, and the ideas backlog via portfolio_ideas_backlog — all from .claude/hooks/_lib-portfolio-paths.sh. Source the helper at the top of any bash block that touches those paths:

source "$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)/.claude/hooks/_lib-read-config.sh"
source "$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)/.claude/hooks/_lib-portfolio-paths.sh"
projects_dir=$(portfolio_projects_dir)
registry=$(portfolio_registry)

Defaults match today's single-fork layout (./apexyard.projects.yaml, ./projects, ./projects/ideas-backlog.md). Adopters in split-portfolio mode override the portfolio.{registry, projects_dir, ideas_backlog} keys in .claude/project-config.json. Don't hardcode literal apexyard.projects.yaml or projects/ paths in bash blocks — the helper resolves whichever mode the adopter is in. See docs/multi-project.md.

Write targets (see me2resh/apexyard#373 + #443): paths documented as projects/<name>/X in this skill are canonical adopter-facing forms — implement them in bash as "${projects_dir}/<name>/X". Never construct from "${PWD}/projects/...", "$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)/projects/...", or a literal ./projects/... — those break in split-portfolio v2 mode where projects_dir resolves to a sibling repo.

REQUIRED per-block preamble (see #443): Claude executes each bash block as a separate shell invocation. The projects_dir assignment from the Path resolution section above does NOT carry into later blocks. Every bash block that writes to a projects/<name>/X path MUST start with this three-line preamble so it's self-contained:

source "$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)/.claude/hooks/_lib-read-config.sh"
source "$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)/.claude/hooks/_lib-portfolio-paths.sh"
projects_dir=$(portfolio_projects_dir)
# ... now write to "${projects_dir}/<name>/X"

The Path resolution section's example sources the helper once for documentation purposes; it does not absolve later blocks from sourcing it themselves. Treat each bash fence as a fresh process.

Activated role

When /roadmap runs, activate the Head of Product role — they own roadmap prioritisation, strategic sequencing, and milestone decisions. For adding a specific item with a PRD, chain to /write-spec which activates the Product Manager instead. For items that require data-driven reprioritisation, involve the Product Analyst.

See .claude/rules/role-triggers.md for the full activation protocol.

Usage

/roadmap                          # show current roadmap
/roadmap add "OAuth login" Q3 P0  # add an item to a milestone
/roadmap remove "OAuth login"     # remove an item
/roadmap reorder                  # interactive reordering
/roadmap show Q3                  # show a single milestone

File location

Every roadmap lives at projects/<name>/roadmap.md inside your ops repo, where <name> matches an entry in apexyard.projects.yaml. Without --project, the skill asks which project's roadmap to operate on, listing the registry.

File format

# Product Roadmap

> Last updated: YYYY-MM-DD
> Owner: @octocat

## Now (current cycle)

| ID | Item | Priority | Status | Owner | Notes |
|----|------|----------|--------|-------|-------|
| RM-001 | CSV export | P0 | in-progress | @alice | GH#42 |
| RM-002 | OAuth login | P0 | not-started | @bob | depends on AgDR-0007 |

## Next (1-3 cycles out)

| ID | Item | Priority | Status | Owner | Notes |
|----|------|----------|--------|-------|-------|
| RM-003 | Multi-currency | P1 | not-started | – | |

## Later (3+ cycles out)

| ID | Item | Priority | Status | Owner | Notes |
|----|------|----------|--------|-------|-------|

## Done

| ID | Item | Shipped | PR |
|----|------|---------|-----|
| RM-000 | Health endpoint | 2026-04-05 | #41 |

The default milestones are Now / Next / Later / Done (Now-Next-Later format). Custom milestones (Q1/Q2/Q3 or v1.0/v1.1/v2.0) are also accepted.

Process

show (default)

1. Read the roadmap file

2. Render each non-empty milestone as a table

3. Print a footer summary:

   12 items · 5 in Now · 4 in Next · 3 in Later · 8 Done
   

add <item> <milestone> <priority>

1. Read the roadmap file
2. Find the next available RM-NNN ID
3. Append a row to the right milestone's table
4. Default Status: not-started, Owner: –
5. Update the Last updated date
6. Write the file back

remove <item-or-id>

1. Locate the row by ID or fuzzy title match
2. Confirm before deleting
3. Remove the row, update the date

reorder

1. List items in the chosen milestone with their position
2. Ask for the new ordering (e.g. 2,1,3,4)
3. Rewrite the table in the new order

move <id> <new-milestone>

1. Find the row by ID
2. Remove it from the current milestone
3. Append it to the target milestone
4. Update the date

close <id>

1. Find the row by ID across Now / Next / Later
2. Move it to Done
3. Add Shipped date and PR column reference (ask user for PR # if it can't be inferred)

Linking to GitHub Issues

If the user passes --with-issues, also create or update tracker issues to mirror the roadmap. Dispatch through tracker_create (#670 / AgDR-0072, extended by the #709 creator sweep) so the issues land in this project's tracker — GitHub, GitLab, or a custom CLI. For a GitHub adopter this runs gh issue create exactly as before.

Resolve the target repo

tracker_create's first argument is a concrete owner/repo slug — it is not resolved for you. Determine it once, before the loop, the same way the other creator skills (/feature, /bug, /task) do:

Read the active-ticket marker of the working tree you are in to determine which repo we're working in. The marker is the apexyard-ticket file in the git dir of that tree. See /start-ticket "Read the active ticket". If no active ticket, check apexyard.projects.yaml for managed projects. If only one project, use it. If multiple, ask:

Which project should the roadmap issues be filed in?

If no projects are registered, ask for the repo in owner/repo format. Pass the resolved value (e.g. me2resh/apexyard) as the first tracker_create argument — never the literal {owner/repo} placeholder.

# Resolve + source the tracker lib once (before the loop) by walking up from cwd.
tracker_lib="$(r="$PWD"; while [ -n "$r" ] && [ "$r" != / ]; do \
  [ -f "$r/.claude/hooks/_lib-tracker.sh" ] && { echo "$r/.claude/hooks/_lib-tracker.sh"; break; }; \
  r="${r%/*}"; done)"
# shellcheck source=/dev/null
. "$tracker_lib"

# owner_repo is the value resolved above (e.g. me2resh/apexyard), NOT a literal.
owner_repo="{resolved owner/repo}"

# For each item in Now and Next without a GH link in Notes:
body_file="$(mktemp)"
printf 'Tracking issue for roadmap item %s\n' "{RM-NNN}" > "$body_file"
result="$(tracker_create "$owner_repo" "[Roadmap] {item}" "$body_file" "roadmap,{priority}")"
rc=$?
rm -f "$body_file"
if [ "$rc" -eq 3 ]; then
  # tracker.kind=none (shape-only): no tracker to create in. tracker_create
  # printed the rendered ticket body to stdout — surface it for manual /
  # external filing and skip the Notes back-write.
  echo "Tracker is 'none' (shape-only) — nothing was created in a tracker." >&2
  printf '%s\n' "$result"
elif [ "$rc" -eq 0 ] && [ -n "$result" ]; then
  ref="$(printf '%s' "$result" | jq -r '.ref')"
  # write ${ref} back into the item's Notes column
else
  echo "Issue creation failed for '{item}' — check the tracker CLI / auth." >&2
fi

Then write the issue reference (${ref}) back into the Notes column (only on the rc -eq 0 path above — the kind=none and failure paths leave Notes untouched).

Output format (show)

ROADMAP — example-app — last updated 2026-04-06
================================================

NOW (current cycle)
| ID     | Item            | Priority | Status      | Owner  | Notes                |
|--------|-----------------|----------|-------------|--------|----------------------|
| RM-001 | CSV export      | P0       | in-progress | @alice | GH#42                |
| RM-002 | OAuth login     | P0       | not-started | @bob   | depends on AgDR-0007 |

NEXT (1–3 cycles out)
| ID     | Item            | Priority | Status      | Owner | Notes |
|--------|-----------------|----------|-------------|-------|-------|
| RM-003 | Multi-currency  | P1       | not-started | –     |       |

LATER
(empty)

DONE (last 5)
| ID     | Item            | Shipped    | PR  |
|--------|-----------------|------------|-----|
| RM-000 | Health endpoint | 2026-04-05 | #41 |

Summary: 3 active · 0 later · 1 done
Owner: @octocat

Priorities

Priority	Meaning
P0	Must ship in current cycle
P1	Should ship soon
P2	Nice to have
P3	Speculative

Status values

Status	Meaning
not-started	No work yet
in-progress	Active work, branch/PR exists
blocked	Waiting on something — note in Notes column
in-review	PR open, awaiting review
done	Shipped (auto-moves to Done milestone)

Rules

1. One file = one project's roadmap — no shared roadmaps across projects
2. IDs are stable — RM-001 never changes once assigned
3. Done is append-only — items move to Done, never out of it
4. Update Last updated on every write
5. Confirm destructive ops — remove, reorder ask first
6. One roadmap per project — always write to projects/<name>/roadmap.md in the ops repo
7. Don't auto-create issues unless asked — --with-issues is opt-in
8. Preserve markdown formatting — don't reflow rows or change column widths unnecessarily

Related skills

• /write-spec — once a roadmap item is approved, write its PRD
• /stakeholder-update — pulls "Now" and "Done" sections to summarise progress
• /idea — for ideas not yet on the roadmap

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