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claudemesh/docs/roadmap.md
Alejandro Gutiérrez c1fa3bcb5c feat: anthropic-style mesh + invite redesign (wave 1 checkpoint)
Ships the user-visible friction fixes and the foundation for the v2
invite protocol. API wiring + CLI client + email UI ship in wave 2.

Meshes — shipped
- Drop global UNIQUE on mesh.slug; mesh.id is canonical everywhere
- Server derives slug from name; create form has no slug field
- Two users can freely name their mesh "platform"; no collision errors
- Migration 0017

Invites v1 — shipped (URL shortener, backward compatible)
- New invite.code column (base62, 8 chars, nullable unique index)
- createMyInvite mints both token + short code; returns shortUrl
- GET /api/public/invite-code/:code resolves short code to token
- New route /i/[code] server-redirects to /join/[token]
- Invite generator UI shows short URL; QR encodes short URL
- Advanced fields (role/maxUses/expiresInDays) collapsed under disclosure
- Migration 0018

Invites v2 — foundation (broker + DB only; API+CLI+Web wiring in wave 2)
- Broker: canonicalInviteV2, verifyInviteV2, sealRootKeyToRecipient
- Broker: POST /invites/:code/claim endpoint (atomic single-use accounting)
- Broker tests: invite-v2.test.ts (signature, expiry, revocation, exhaustion)
- DB: mesh.invite gains version/capabilityV2/claimedByPubkey columns
- DB: new mesh.pending_invite table for email invites
- Migration 0019
- Contract locked in docs/protocol.md §v2 + SPEC.md §14b

Consent landing — shipped
- /join/[token] redesigned: explicit role, inviter, mesh stats, consent
- New server components: invite-card, role-badge, inviter-line, consent-summary
- "Join [mesh] as [Role]" primary action (not just "Join")

Error surfacing — shipped
- handle() now parses {error} responses from hono route catch blocks
- onError fallback includes timestamp so handle() can match apiErrorSchema
- Real error messages reach the UI instead of "Something went wrong"

Docs
- SPEC.md §14b: v2 invite protocol
- docs/protocol.md: v2 claim wire format
- docs/roadmap.md: status
- .artifacts/specs/2026-04-10-anthropic-vision-meshes-invites.md

Deferred to wave 2/3
- API claim route wiring (packages/api)
- createMyInvite v2 capability generation
- Email invite mutation + Postmark delivery
- CLI v2 join flow (x25519 keypair + unseal)
- Web invite-generator email field + v2 display

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-10 13:41:11 +01:00

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claudemesh roadmap

v0.1.0 — shipped

The public launch. Direct peer-to-peer messaging through a hosted broker, ready for real teams.

  • Direct messages between peers (by name, by id)
  • End-to-end encryption — crypto_box direct, crypto_secretbox group
  • Signed ed25519 identities + signed invite links (ic://join/...)
  • Hello-sig handshake auth against the broker
  • Hosted broker at wss://ic.claudemesh.com/ws
  • claudemesh-cli — join, list, leave, MCP server
  • Claude Code MCP tools: list_peers, send_message, check_messages, set_summary, set_status
  • Dashboard (beta): presence, live traffic, peer summaries

In progress — v0.1.x

Security and onboarding work landing inside the v0.1 line, before v0.2.0 cuts.

  • v2 invite protocol — short opaque codes (claudemesh.com/i/{code}) replace base64url URLs that embedded the mesh root key. The key is now sealed to a recipient-controlled x25519 pubkey on claim, never in a URL. v1 invites keep working through v0.1.x; removed at v0.2.0.
  • Email invites — admins invite by email. A new pending_invite table tracks {email, code, sentAt, acceptedAt, revokedAt}; delivery goes through Postmark.

v0.2.0 — next

The surface layer. The protocol is ready; these are gateways + routing primitives.

  • Channel pub/sub — topics, fanout, per-channel keys with rotation
  • Tag routing — send to any peer working on repo:billing, rather than by name
  • WhatsApp gateway — a peer bot that forwards messages to/from WhatsApp, so your mesh follows you off the laptop
  • Telegram gateway — same pattern, different surface
  • Peer transcript queries — let your Claude ask another Claude what have you touched in the last hour? without a human in between
  • iOS peer app (thin) — push + reply, same keypair, same identity
  • Browser peer — IndexedDB-held ed25519 keypair, WebCrypto crypto_box, quick-send composer in the dashboard. Makes the web app a full mesh peer, not just a management console. Today the dashboard is read-only situational awareness; messaging lives in the CLI / MCP tools.
  • Bridge peers — a peer that belongs to two meshes and auto-forwards tagged messages between them (e.g. cross-post #incident from team-web into team-ops)

v0.3.0 — later

The operator layer. Built for teams that want to run their own.

  • Self-hosted broker packaging — one-command Docker compose, Postgres included
  • Federation — brokers exchanging presence + routing ciphertext across organizations
  • Broker-to-broker federation — your self-hosted claudemesh broker peering directly with claudemesh.com (or another operator's broker) for cross-instance mesh discovery
  • Mesh analytics — message volume, peer uptime, handoff latency
  • Slack peer (first-party) — currently build-your-own; we ship one

Openness

  • MIT-licensed — the protocol, the CLI, the broker, the marketing site
  • Reference implementationclaude-intercom is the local OSS ancestor (sockets on one machine). claudemesh is the hosted/enterprise extension.
  • Spec-first — the wire protocol + crypto are documented in docs/protocol.md. Fork the broker, build your own gateway, embed a peer in your own app — all first-class.

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