Roadmap

Roadmap

What is not built, what is not yet seen on real hardware, and what would come next. Nothing here is promised; it is the honest edge of the project.

Not built yet

Feature	Why not
The week drawn as a timeline inside Alexa+	The Alexa+ add-on surface is partner-only.
"While you were out", on request	Lower priority.
Quiet hours	Lower priority.
Visits for the agency	A carer's visits, confirmed by the resident, as a record an agency could rely on. The mechanism exists; the product around it does not.

Before a real household

Wick has never run in a real home. Before it does:

1. Explain in person what it captures and shares, and get written consent.
2. Agree what is off limits, and make withdrawal unconditional. The software already deletes everything when she presses Stop Wick.
3. Test on a real Fire TV and a real Ring doorbell. Legibility at three metres, a real panel's contrast, sound, and a spoken "Alexa, pause" have not been checked.
4. Set a retention period for the timeline. Door pictures and readings last a day; the rest has no limit set yet.

Platform dependencies

Alexa+ add-on	The add-on manifest is complete and checked, and cannot be uploaded until Amazon opens the toolkit beyond select partners (FL-001).
Reaching an app from a server	Amazon Device Messaging is the documented way to reach a Fire TV app from a server on both Fire OS and Vega. Wick does not use it yet (FL-049).
Text size on Vega	Vega says whether high contrast is on, but nothing an app can use about text size (FL-038).
Lambda concurrency	The AWS account's quota is 10, so the Ring webhook reservation cannot be set until it is raised.
Ring in a real home	Linking a real Ring account needs a device and a Protection plan; the Developer Playground sends no webhooks (FL-027).

Considered and deliberately not built

Idea	Why not, or what replaced it
A model in the Guardian	Rules only, by design. A model is what is being guarded against.
Face matching for visitors	Rejected. Visitors are matched by schedule only.
Replies written by a model	Replies are chosen from sentences Wick wrote.
Voice notes from the family	Transcribe is used only for spoken questions.
Amazon Timestream for the rhythm	DynamoDB counts were enough.
Bedrock Knowledge Bases	No free-text facts are stored to recall; fixed tools answer.
An indoor camera, fall detection, a wellness score, a chatbot on the television	Never. See The Idea.

Known engineering follow-ups

• MCP latency on new connections. App Runner closes idle connections, and each reconnection is the whole of a slow call (issue 47).
• More languages. The phrasebook is hand-written whole sentences, held to the builders' real output by tests; adding a language means writing and reviewing its sentences.
• More of the Guardian's lexicon outside English. Today other scripts are not cleared except for the household's own people's names.

The issue tracker is the live list: github.com/rogerjeasy/wick/issues.