micro--go-micro/.github/loop/NORTH_STAR.md

North Star

The direction the loop aligns every increment to. Depth lives in internal/docs/THESIS.md; this is the short, operative version the planner and builder read each run.

Mission

Make building an agent as easy as building a service, on one runtime. Go Micro is a holistic agent harness and service framework encapsulating the lifecycle of services → agents → workflows — pluggable, progressive, and AI-native by default.

Right now — developer adoption

The framework's depth is strong; the on-ramp is the gap. Weight the developer experience — a walkable first-agent tutorial, discoverable examples, docs wayfinding, install friction, debugging, the 0→1 and 0→hero path — at least as highly as internal hardening. A developer succeeding on their first agent matters more right now than another conformance/observability/interop increment. Do not let the queue fill entirely with internal depth work.

Guardrails

• One concern per PR; small and reversible.
• The gate is green CI (go build, go test, golangci-lint, make harness), not human review — keep the suite strong; the loop is only as good as its evaluator.
• Off-limits without a human (surface as notes, never auto-merge): breaking public-API changes, brand/positioning/marketing copy, new dependencies, architectural rewrites, product-default changes with broad behavioral impact.
• Stay on claude/* / codex/* branches; base PRs on master. See CODEX.md and internal/docs/CONTINUOUS_IMPROVEMENT.md.