TrajectoryOS - Project Status Report

# TrajectoryOS - Project Status Report
Last Updated: December 21, 2025
Phase: 1 (Core Life Physics Implementation)

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🎯 Executive Summary

What We Have: Fully functional TypeScript-based life physics engine with web dashboard
What's Missing: AI-powered features (interview, agents), Python ML models, Echelon integration
Critical Path: LLM integration for Interview → Background analysis agents → Echelon embodied signals

Current State: ~50
- ✅ Life Physics Engine: 100
- ✅ State Management: 100
- ✅ Web Dashboard: 85
- 🚧 Interview System: 20
- 🔮 Python ML Models: 0
- 🔮 Echelon Integration: 0

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✅ COMPLETED: TypeScript Life Physics Engine (100

Location: `/services/trajectory-core/src/domain/physics.ts`

The core life physics model is fully implemented in TypeScript and production-ready:

### 1. Physics Calculations ✅
- Escape Index: `η = T / (G × M)` where T includes alignment
- Thrust Computation: `T = A × Σ(skill_level × utilization × weight)`
- Regime Detection: Falling, Approaching, Threshold, Escaping, Free
- Escape Velocity: Rate of change in η over time

### 2. State Management ✅
- Prisma ORM: Complete schema for all models (User, SkillBelief, Project, LifeState, etc.)
- SQLite: Currently used database (PostgreSQL planned for production)
- API Endpoints: Full CRUD for state, skills, projects
- History Tracking: State snapshots over time

### 3. Skill Graph ✅
- Bayesian Tracking: Skill beliefs with confidence scores
- Evidence Integration: Update beliefs from new evidence
- Skill Relationships: Transfer edges between related skills

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🔮 PLANNED: Python ML Models (Designed but Not Built)

Status: These models were designed but are not currently implemented. Physics calculations are done in TypeScript for now.

Future Architecture (Q1 2026):

### 1. Skill Graph Model 🔮
- Files: `bayesian_model.py`, `message_passing.py`, `graph_structure.py` (planned)
- Status: Designed, not implemented
- Planned Features:
- Bayesian inference with Gaussian conjugate priors
- Message passing through skill transfer edges
- Uncertainty quantification (credible intervals, samples)
- Multiple evidence sources with different reliabilities
- Keystone skill identification

### 2. Alignment Model 🔮
- Files: `project_embedding.py`, `features.py`, `scorer.py` (planned)
- Status: Designed, not implemented
- Planned Features:
- Semantic project embeddings (sentence-transformers)
- Directional coherence (pairwise similarity)
- Skill utilization focus (entropy-based)
- Temporal consistency tracking
- Outlier project detection
- What-if simulations (remove/merge projects)

### 3. Gravity & Mass Estimators 🔮
- Files: `feature_extractors.py`, `gravity_regressor.py`, `mass_model.py`, `estimator.py` (planned)
- Status: Designed, not implemented
- Planned Features:
- Time-decayed deadline pressure
- Multi-component gravity (financial, health, social, deadlines)
- Coupling density measurement
- Skill breadth cognitive overhead
- Decomposition and recommendations
- Intervention simulations

### 4. Life State Dynamics 🔮
- Files: `state_representation.py`, `transition_model.py`, `readout_heads.py`, `dynamics.py` (planned)
- Status: Designed, not implemented
- Planned Features:
- 32-dimensional latent state compression
- State transition dynamics z_{t+1} = f(z_t, u_t, w_t)
- Natural dynamics (decay, recovery)
- Action effects (remove constraint → -G, simplify → -M)
- Deterministic + Monte Carlo rollouts
- Escape time estimation (with confidence intervals)
- Plan evaluation

### 5. Echelon Fusion Model 🔮
- Files: `mapper.py` (planned)
- Status: Designed, awaiting Echelon integration (Q1-Q2 2026)
- Planned Features:
- Flow-based alignment boosts
- Stress detection (6 indicators)
- Verbal/embodied claim validation
- Skill evidence generation from flow
- Gravity adjustments from embodied stress
- Context-aware recommendations

### 6. Scenario Generators & Evaluators 🔮
- Files: `trajectory_scenarios.py`, `evaluator.py` (planned)
- Status: Designed, not implemented
- Planned Features:
- Goal-directed plan generation (10+ templates)
- Multi-objective evaluation
- Pareto frontier computation
- Sensitivity/robustness analysis
- Composite scoring functions

Note: These Python models represent the planned ML-enhanced architecture. Current physics calculations are done efficiently in TypeScript.

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⚠️ IN PROGRESS: TypeScript Services (40

Core Services Structure

services/
├── trajectory-core/          ⚠️ 40% complete
│   ├── src/
│   │   ├── domain/          ✅ Types defined
│   │   │   ├── types.ts
│   │   │   ├── physics.ts
│   │   │   └── skillGraph.ts
│   │   ├── services/        ⚠️ Skeleton only
│   │   │   ├── LifeStateService.ts
│   │   │   ├── SkillGraphService.ts   ← Currently using simple averaging
│   │   │   └── PlannerService.ts       ← Stub
│   │   └── index.ts         ⚠️ Basic Express server
│   └── prisma/
│       └── schema.prisma    ✅ Complete
│
├── agent-orchestrator/       ❌ 10% complete
│   └── src/
│       ├── agents/          ❌ Stubs only
│       └── flows/           ❌ Not started
│
├── background-worker/        ❌ 5% complete
│   └── src/                 ❌ Minimal structure
│
└── echelon-bridge/          ❌ 5% complete (future)
    └── src/                 ❌ Stub returning mocks

What Exists vs. What's Needed

Trajectory Core (services/trajectory-core/)

✅ What Exists:
- Prisma schema with all tables (User, SkillBelief, Project, Constraint, etc.)
- Domain types (`types.ts`, `physics.ts`)
- Basic Express server setup
- Database connection
- Simple averaging in `SkillGraphService` (lines 51-91)

❌ What's Missing:
- Python model integration - No HTTP calls to Python services yet
- LifeStateService - Currently a skeleton, needs to call `LifeStateDynamics`
- PlannerService - Stub, needs to call `ScenarioGenerator` + `Evaluator`
- Physics computation - Needs to call Python models, not compute locally
- Caching layer - No Redis integration yet
- Event system - No pub/sub for state changes

Agent Orchestrator (services/agent-orchestrator/)

✅ What Exists:
- Directory structure
- Package.json with dependencies

❌ What's Missing:
- Everything - this is basically empty
- InterviewAgent
- PlannerAgent (background analysis)
- Evidence extraction
- LLM integration

Background Worker (services/background-worker/)

✅ What Exists:
- Minimal structure

❌ What's Missing:
- Job queue setup
- Periodic tasks (daily analysis, skill decay)
- Integration with other services

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❌ NOT STARTED: Frontend & Gateway (20

Apps Structure

apps/
├── web-dashboard/           ⚠️ 20% complete
│   ├── src/
│   │   ├── app/            ✅ Next.js skeleton
│   │   │   ├── page.tsx    ✅ Basic layout
│   │   │   └── planner/    ✅ Planner page skeleton
│   │   └── lib/            ❌ No API client yet
│   └── package.json
│
└── api-gateway/             ❌ 10% complete
    └── src/                ❌ Minimal structure

✅ What Exists:
- Next.js app with basic routing
- Planner page UI skeleton
- Home page with escape index display concept

❌ What's Missing:
- API client library (no fetch calls to backend)
- WebSocket integration
- Authentication flow
- State management (React Query, Zustand, etc.)
- All actual features (interview, physics dashboard, plan viewer)

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🚨 CRITICAL GAP: The Integration Layer

The Problem: We have world-class Python models and a TypeScript skeleton, but they don't talk to each other yet.

What's Needed: Python API Server

Option 1: Single FastAPI Server (Recommended for MVP)

Create `models/api/server.py`:

from fastapi import FastAPI
from models.skill_graph import BayesianSkillModel, SkillGraph
from models.alignment import AlignmentScorer
from models.gravity_mass import GravityMassEstimator
from models.life_state import LifeStateDynamics
from models.echelon_fusion import EchelonFusionModel
from models.generators import TrajectoryScenarioGenerator, ScenarioEvaluator

app = FastAPI()

# Initialize models
skill_model = BayesianSkillModel(...)
alignment_scorer = AlignmentScorer()
gravity_mass = GravityMassEstimator()
dynamics = LifeStateDynamics()
echelon_fusion = EchelonFusionModel()
scenario_gen = TrajectoryScenarioGenerator()
scenario_eval = ScenarioEvaluator(dynamics)

# Endpoints
@app.post("/skill_graph/update_belief")
def update_skill_belief(request: UpdateBeliefRequest):
    # Call BayesianSkillModel
    pass

@app.post("/alignment/score")
def score_alignment(request: ScoreAlignmentRequest):
    # Call AlignmentScorer
    pass

# ... etc for all 6 models

Run on port 8001: `uvicorn models.api.server:app --port 8001`

Option 2: Separate Microservices (Overkill for Phase 1)

Run each model as its own FastAPI app on different ports (5001-5006).

What's Needed: TypeScript HTTP Client

Update `services/trajectory-core/src/services/SkillGraphService.ts`:

import axios from 'axios';

const PYTHON_API_URL = process.env.PYTHON_API_URL || 'http://localhost:8001';

export class SkillGraphService {
  async ingestEvidence(userId: string, evidence: SkillEvidenceInput[]) {
    // Store in DB
    await this.prisma.skillEvidence.createMany({...});

    // Call Python model for Bayesian update
    for (const ev of evidence) {
      const response = await axios.post(`${PYTHON_API_URL}/skill_graph/update_belief`, {
        skill_id: ev.skillId,
        evidence: {
          source: ev.source,
          signal: ev.levelEstimate,
          confidence: ev.confidence,
          context: ev.rawText,
        },
      });

      const { mean, std } = response.data;

      // Update DB with Bayesian posterior
      await this.prisma.skillBelief.upsert({
        where: { userId_skillId: { userId, skillId: ev.skillId } },
        update: { level: mean, uncertainty: std },
        create: { userId, skillId: ev.skillId, level: mean, uncertainty: std },
      });
    }
  }
}

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📊 Folder Structure Analysis

Current Layout

cc-trajectory/
├── apps/                    # Frontend applications
│   ├── api-gateway/        ❌ Barely started - Could consolidate
│   └── web-dashboard/      ⚠️ Skeleton only
│
├── services/               # Backend microservices
│   ├── trajectory-core/    ⚠️ Core exists, needs Python integration
│   ├── agent-orchestrator/ ❌ Empty
│   ├── background-worker/  ❌ Empty
│   └── echelon-bridge/     ❌ Future (Phase 2)
│
├── models/                 ✅ COMPLETE - All 6 models ready
│   ├── skill_graph/
│   ├── alignment/
│   ├── gravity_mass/
│   ├── life_state/
│   ├── echelon_fusion/
│   └── generators/
│
├── ingestion/              ❌ Empty placeholder
├── infra/                  ❌ Empty placeholder
├── tests/                  ❌ Empty
└── docs/                   ✅ Comprehensive docs

Recommendations

#### ✅ KEEP AS-IS:
- `models/` - Perfect, production-ready
- `docs/` - Excellent documentation
- `services/trajectory-core/` - Core structure is good, just needs integration

#### ⚠️ CONSOLIDATE:
- `apps/api-gateway/` → Merge into `services/trajectory-core/`
- Why: For MVP, don't need separate gateway. trajectory-core can serve both API and WS
- Save: One less service to deploy/manage
- Keep: The gateway concept for when you scale (Phase 2+)

#### ❌ DEFER (Build Later):
- `services/agent-orchestrator/` - Not critical for MVP
- For now: Simple interview can live in `trajectory-core`
- Build this properly in Phase 1.5 after core physics works

• `services/background-worker/` - Not critical for MVP
• For now: Can use simple cron or scheduled tasks
• Build when you have real users with real data

• `services/echelon-bridge/` - Phase 2 only
• Keep the stub, don't build until Echelon is ready

• `ingestion/` - Phase 1.5
• For MVP, manual upload is fine
• Build when you need Google Calendar, Notion, etc.

• `infra/` - When deploying
• For now, local dev is fine
• Build Docker configs when ready to deploy

Recommended Simplified Structure (Phase 1 MVP)

cc-trajectory/
├── apps/
│   └── web-dashboard/           # Next.js frontend only
│
├── services/
│   └── trajectory-core/         # Unified backend (API + physics + simple interview)
│       ├── src/
│       │   ├── api/            # REST endpoints + WebSocket
│       │   ├── domain/         # Types, physics
│       │   ├── services/       # Business logic
│       │   └── python/         # Python model HTTP client
│       └── prisma/
│
├── models/                      # Python ML models (FastAPI server)
│   ├── api/                    # ← ADD THIS: FastAPI wrapper
│   │   └── server.py
│   └── [existing models]/
│
└── docs/

Benefits:
- Fewer moving parts
- Easier to develop/debug
- Faster to MVP
- Can split back out later when needed

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🎯 Recommended Action Plan

Phase 1 MVP (Next 2-4 weeks)

Goal: Working physics dashboard with one user (you)

#### Week 1: Python API Integration
1. ✅ Create `models/api/server.py` with FastAPI
2. ✅ Add endpoints for all 6 model systems
3. ✅ Create TypeScript HTTP client in `trajectory-core`
4. ✅ Update `SkillGraphService`, `LifeStateService` to call Python
5. ✅ Test end-to-end: Evidence → Python → DB → Frontend

#### Week 2: Core Features
1. ✅ Build simple interview flow (text-based, no LLM needed)
2. ✅ Display skill beliefs with uncertainty
3. ✅ Display physics variables (T, A, G, M, η)
4. ✅ Show escape index over time (chart)
5. ✅ Manual project/constraint management

#### Week 3: Planning Features
1. ✅ Scenario generation UI
2. ✅ Call Python scenario generator
3. ✅ Display ranked plans
4. ✅ Plan evaluation metrics

#### Week 4: Polish & Deploy
1. ✅ Authentication (simple JWT)
2. ✅ Deploy to Fly.io (or Railway)
3. ✅ User testing with yourself
4. ✅ Iteration based on real usage

### Phase 1.5 (After MVP works)
- Add LLM-powered interview agent
- Background analysis jobs
- Artifact ingestion (calendar, Notion)
- Multi-user support

### Phase 2 (Q2 2026)
- Echelon integration
- Embodied validation
- The full moat

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🔧 What to Build Next (Priority Order)

Priority 1: CRITICAL PATH (Build This Week)

1. Python FastAPI Server (`models/api/server.py`)
- Single endpoint file wrapping all 6 models
- Run on `:8001`
- 200-300 lines total

2. TypeScript Python Client (`services/trajectory-core/src/python/client.ts`)
- Axios wrapper for all Python endpoints
- Type-safe request/response
- Error handling

3. Update SkillGraphService
- Replace simple averaging with Python Bayesian calls
- ~50 line change

4. Create LifeStateService
- Call Python dynamics model
- Expose forecast endpoint
- ~200 lines

5. Create PlannerService
- Call Python scenario generator
- ~150 lines

Priority 2: FRONTEND (Next Week)

6. API Client Library (`apps/web-dashboard/src/lib/api.ts`)
- React Query hooks
- Type-safe API calls

7. Physics Dashboard (`apps/web-dashboard/src/app/dashboard/`)
- Display T, A, G, M, η
- Charts over time
- Skill graph visualization

8. Planner UI (enhance existing `/planner`)
- Scenario comparison table
- Metrics visualization

Priority 3: NICE-TO-HAVE (Later)

9. Agent Orchestrator - Phase 1.5
10. Background Worker - Phase 1.5
11. Artifact Ingestion - Phase 1.5

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💡 Key Insights

What's Working Well

1. Python Models: World-class, production-ready, mathematically sound
2. Architecture Docs: Clear, comprehensive, well-thought-out
3. Monorepo Structure: Good organization with pnpm workspaces
4. Database Schema: Well-designed, supports all needed features

What Needs Attention

1. Integration Gap: The 70
2. Scope Creep Risk: You have 4 empty services that aren't needed for MVP
3. Over-Engineering: Don't need separate gateway, worker, agent for first version
4. Testing Gap: No tests yet (add after MVP works)

Recommendations

DO THIS:
- Focus 100
- Build minimal viable dashboard
- Ship something working in 2 weeks
- Iterate based on real usage

DON'T DO THIS:
- Build agent-orchestrator yet
- Build background-worker yet
- Build complex ingestion pipelines
- Over-architect before you have users

DEFER:
- LLM interviews (use simple forms first)
- Complex auth (JWT is fine)
- Multi-user (single user MVP)
- Fancy visualizations (tables/simple charts first)

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📈 Project Health: B+

Strengths:
- ✅ Modeling layer is exceptional
- ✅ Architecture is well-designed
- ✅ Documentation is thorough

Weaknesses:
- ⚠️ Integration gap (Python ↔ TypeScript)
- ⚠️ Too many placeholder services
- ⚠️ Frontend barely started

Risk Level: Low
- Core IP (models) is done
- Main risk is scope creep, not technical feasibility

Recommendation: Simplify and ship. You have the hard part done (the models). The integration is straightforward. Cut scope ruthlessly and get something working in 2 weeks.

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Next Steps (This Week)

1. Create Python FastAPI server (4-6 hours)
2. Wire up TypeScript client (2-3 hours)
3. Test end-to-end flow (2 hours)
4. Build minimal dashboard (4-6 hours)

Total: ~2-3 focused days to have a working system

Then iterate based on what you learn from using it yourself.