Roadmap

This roadmap is high-level directional guidance for the evolution of UnisonOS. It describes what we intend to standardize and harden over time, without committing to specific dates.

North Star

UnisonOS delivers a calm, intention-centric, real-time generated experience that adapts to each person and each device’s capabilities, while keeping privacy, consent, and auditability central.

Near-Term Focus (Now → Next)

  • Standardized Skills: define and enforce a consistent “skill” interface for intent handlers (registration, discovery, versioning, schema validation, and policy hooks).
  • Tool registry as a first-class concept: keep a central list of available tools/skills/service APIs and their constraints so the system never guesses capabilities.
  • Multi-agent orchestration: enable orchestrator-driven delegation to specialist agents for parallel work (research, code, extraction, actuation), with clear boundaries and deterministic interfaces where required.
  • MCP-enabled extensions: add support for Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers as a standard way to extend tools and context sources safely and consistently.

Platform and Payments

  • Payments capability: integrate the payments service into end-to-end flows (intent → policy/consent → payment approval → audit trail).
  • Repo: https://github.com/project-unisonOS/unison-payments
  • Policy-governed monetization: ensure financial actions are explicit, confirmable, and auditable, with safe defaults and clear rollback paths.

Evolving Actuation (Embodiment of AI)

  • Smart home integration: privacy-preserving control over home devices and automations (lights, climate, security, media) with explicit consent and audit.
  • Immersive experiences: richer actuation surfaces (spatial/3D, AR/VR-style presentation and control) while keeping the experience intention-centric.
  • Robotic actuation: integrate safe, policy-governed control over physical actuators (robot arms, mobile robots, assistive devices).
  • Expanded tool safety: stronger guardrails for high-impact actions (scoped permissions, confirmation patterns, rollback semantics, and per-tool policy).

Performance and Device-Specific Optimization

  • Device-aware profiles: tune default behavior for different device classes (WSL2, VM, bare metal, low-power devices) while keeping the same core experience model.
  • Latency and throughput: focus on startup time, turn latency, streaming responsiveness, and resource usage (CPU/GPU/RAM/IO) across the full stack.
  • Model efficiency: improve model selection and runtime settings per device capability (quantization, context sizing, batching) while remaining local-first.

Vertical Domain Support (Privacy-Preserving Specialist Insight)

  • PII-heavy domains: add first-class domain capabilities for managing and reasoning over sensitive content (e.g., personal health records, personal finance records).
  • Beyond record storage: treat domains as privacy-preserving methods of gaining specialist insights (summaries, risk flags, trend analysis, decision support), not just databases.
  • Consent-first access patterns: support scoped sharing, explicit approvals, and audit trails for every domain access and transformation.
  • Local-first by default: keep ingestion, indexing, and retrieval on-device when possible; allow policy-governed remote compute only when explicitly enabled.

Updates and Lifecycle Management

  • Kernel and OS updates: enable safe, reversible updates for the underlying OS and kernel where applicable.
  • UnisonOS capability updates: support updating core services and capabilities with compatibility-aware versioning and clear release notes.
  • Model updates: support predictable model pack updates (install, verify, roll back) and safe prompt/template evolution.

Longer-Term Exploration

  • Richer orchestration patterns: higher-level workflows, background monitoring with consent, and more powerful actuation patterns with stronger guarantees.
  • New interaction modes: broaden the set of supported interaction modes while keeping modality-complete outcomes (voice, vision, sign, Braille, BCI, gesture, touch).

Where to Track Work

  • Platform releases and artifact strategy: https://github.com/project-unisonOS/unison-platform
  • Shared runtime library (schemas, prompt engine, model packs): https://github.com/project-unisonOS/unison-common