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Project Execution Checklist

Project Execution Checklist

.Claude Framework: 78% → 100% Autonomous - Quick Reference​

Use this checklist to track overall progress at a glance​

🎯 4 Major Milestones​

Milestone 1: Foundation (End of Week 2)​

  • Agents can discover each other by capability
  • Agents can send tasks via message bus
  • Tasks auto-queue with dependencies
  • First autonomous multi-agent workflow works end-to-end
  • Unit tests: 80%+ coverage, all pass

Milestone 2: Resilience (End of Week 4)​

  • Circuit breakers prevent cascading failures
  • Tasks automatically retry (3 attempts with exponential backoff)
  • State syncs across nodes via S3
  • System recovers from failures within 60 seconds
  • Chaos tests pass (1 hour of random failures)

Milestone 3: Observability (End of Week 6)​

  • Prometheus scraping metrics from all services
  • Jaeger showing end-to-end traces
  • Loki aggregating structured logs
  • Grafana dashboards operational
  • Alerts configured and tested

Milestone 4: Production Ready (End of Week 8)​

  • System handles 100+ concurrent tasks
  • All documentation published
  • CI/CD pipeline operational
  • Load tests passing
  • Production deployment successful
  • 100% traffic on new system

📋 Phase Completion Checklists​

Phase 1: Foundation (Weeks 1-2) - P0 CRITICAL​

Week 1​

  • Infrastructure Setup (Day 1-2)

    • RabbitMQ cluster deployed (3 nodes)
    • Redis cluster deployed (3 nodes)
    • Docker Compose working
    • All services healthy

  • Agent Discovery Service (Day 3-5)

    • Redis schema designed
    • AgentDiscoveryService implemented
    • Unit tests: 80%+ coverage
    • Integration with orchestrator

Week 2​

  • Message Bus (Day 1-4)

    • RabbitMQ topology designed
    • MessageBus class implemented
    • Unit tests: 80%+ coverage
    • Integration with orchestrator

  • Task Queue Manager (Day 3-5)

    • Task queue data structures designed
    • TaskQueueManager implemented
    • Dependency resolution working
    • Deadlock detection implemented
    • Unit tests: 80%+ coverage

  • Phase 1 Integration (Day 5)

    • First autonomous workflow E2E
    • Integration tests pass
    • Performance benchmarks meet targets

Phase 1 Sign-off: [ ] COMPLETE

Phase 2: Resilience (Weeks 3-4) - P0 CRITICAL​

Week 3​

  • Circuit Breaker Service (Day 1-2)

    • PyBreaker installed
    • AgentCircuitBreaker implemented
    • Fallback agent selection working
    • Unit tests: 80%+ coverage

  • Retry Policy Engine (Day 3-4)

    • Retry policy designed
    • RetryPolicyEngine implemented
    • Exponential backoff + jitter working
    • Unit tests: 80%+ coverage

  • Integration (Day 5)

    • Circuit breaker integrated
    • Retry engine integrated
    • Cascading failure tests pass

Week 4​

  • Distributed State Manager (Day 1-4)

    • S3 bucket set up
    • Distributed locks implemented (Redis)
    • DistributedStateManager implemented
    • Conflict resolution working
    • Unit tests: 80%+ coverage

  • Resilience Testing (Day 5)

    • Agent failure tests pass
    • Network partition tests pass
    • Chaos engineering tests pass (1 hour)
    • Performance tuning complete

Phase 2 Sign-off: [ ] COMPLETE

Phase 3: Observability (Weeks 5-6) - P1 HIGH​

Week 5​

  • Metrics Collection (Day 1-3)

    • Prometheus installed
    • SystemMonitor class implemented
    • Code instrumented with metrics
    • Queries and alerts created

  • Distributed Tracing (Day 4-5)

    • Jaeger installed
    • OpenTelemetry SDK integrated
    • Code instrumented with spans
    • Trace context propagation working
    • End-to-end trace visible

Week 6​

  • Structured Logging (Day 1-2)

    • Loki installed
    • JSON logger implemented
    • All print() replaced with logger
    • Log correlation with traces working

  • Grafana Dashboards (Day 3-5)

    • Grafana installed
    • System Overview dashboard created
    • Agent Performance dashboard created
    • Trace Analysis dashboard created
    • Alerts configured (Slack/email)

Phase 3 Sign-off: [ ] COMPLETE

Phase 4: Polish (Weeks 7-8) - P1 MEDIUM​

Week 7​

  • CLI Integration (Day 1-3)

    • CLI commands implemented
    • Unit tests: 80%+ coverage
    • Usage documentation complete

  • API Documentation (Day 4-5)

    • Sphinx installed
    • API docs generated
    • User guides created
    • Docs published (GitHub Pages)

  • Deployment Automation (Day 1-5)

    • Docker images created
    • K8s manifests created
    • CI/CD pipeline created (GitHub Actions)
    • Deployment runbook written

Week 8​

  • Load Testing (Day 1-2)

    • Load testing tool installed (Locust/k6)
    • Load test scenarios created
    • Load tests run and results documented
    • Performance tuning complete

  • Production Deployment (Day 3-5)

    • Pre-deployment checklist complete
    • Phase 1: 10% traffic (24h monitor)
    • Phase 2: 50% traffic (24h monitor)
    • Phase 3: 100% traffic (48h monitor)
    • Old orchestrator deprecated
    • Post-deployment review complete

Phase 4 Sign-off: [ ] COMPLETE

🎓 Training & Documentation Checklist​

  • Documentation Published

    • AGENT-DISCOVERY.md
    • MESSAGE-BUS.md
    • TASK-QUEUE.md
    • CIRCUIT-BREAKER.md
    • RETRY-POLICY.md
    • DISTRIBUTED-STATE.md
    • OBSERVABILITY.md
    • CLI-REFERENCE.md
    • DEPLOYMENT-RUNBOOK.md
    • API documentation (Sphinx)

  • Team Training

    • Hands-on session: Agent discovery
    • Hands-on session: Submitting tasks
    • Hands-on session: Monitoring dashboards
    • Hands-on session: Troubleshooting failures
    • Hands-on session: Deployment process

  • Runbooks Created

    • Incident response runbook
    • Deployment runbook
    • Rollback procedure
    • Scaling procedure
    • Troubleshooting guide

📊 Final Acceptance Criteria​

Before marking project 100% complete:

Performance Metrics​

  • Autonomy: 95%+ (95 out of 100 tasks complete without human intervention)
  • Latency: <5 seconds (task enqueue to agent start)
  • Throughput: 100+ tasks/minute (sustained)
  • Reliability: 99.9% uptime (over 7-day period)
  • Recovery Time: <60 seconds (from agent failure to recovery)
  • Agent Utilization: 70% average (agents busy, not idle)

Quality Metrics​

  • Test Coverage: 80%+ across all components
  • Unit Tests: All pass
  • Integration Tests: All pass
  • E2E Tests: All pass
  • Load Tests: Pass (1000 concurrent tasks)
  • Chaos Tests: Pass (1 hour of random failures)

Operational Readiness​

  • Monitoring: All dashboards operational
  • Alerting: All alerts configured and tested
  • Logging: Structured logs aggregated and searchable
  • Tracing: End-to-end traces visible
  • Documentation: 100% complete and published
  • CI/CD: Pipeline operational and tested
  • Team Training: 100% of team trained

Production Deployment​

  • Staging: Deployed and tested
  • Canary: 10% traffic successful
  • Rollout: 50% traffic successful
  • Full Deployment: 100% traffic successful
  • Monitoring: 48 hours of stable operation
  • Old System: Deprecated and archived

🚨 Critical Blockers (Escalate Immediately)​

Check daily - if any of these occur, escalate to project lead:

  • Infrastructure failure (RabbitMQ, Redis, PostgreSQL down >1 hour)
  • Test coverage drops below 75%
  • Any critical path task slips by >1 day
  • Production deployment failure
  • Data loss or corruption
  • Security vulnerability discovered
  • Key team member unavailable (sick, vacation)

📅 Weekly Progress Report Template​

Copy this section each Friday:

Week N Progress Report​

Date: YYYY-MM-DD Phase: [Phase name] Overall Progress: X%

Completed This Week​

  • Task 1
  • Task 2
  • Task 3

In Progress​

  • Task 4 (50% done)
  • Task 5 (25% done)

Blockers​

  • Blocker 1: [Description + mitigation]
  • Blocker 2: [Description + mitigation]

Metrics​

  • Autonomy: X%
  • Test Coverage: X%
  • Tasks Completed: X
  • Avg Latency: Xs
  • Error Rate: X%
  • Uptime: X%

Next Week Plan​

  • Task 6
  • Task 7
  • Task 8

Risks​

  • Risk 1: [Probability/Impact + mitigation]
  • Risk 2: [Probability/Impact + mitigation]

🎉 Project Completion Celebration​

When all checkboxes are ticked:

  • Announce completion to team (Slack, email)
  • Demo to stakeholders (30-min presentation)
  • Write blog post (internal/external)
  • Update README with new capabilities
  • Archive project plan (for future reference)
  • Team retrospective (lessons learned)
  • Plan next enhancements (v2.0 roadmap)
  • Celebrate! 🎊 (team lunch, happy hour, etc.)

📞 Quick Reference​

Project Lead: [Name] Engineers: [Names] DevOps: [Name]

Documents​

  • Detailed Plan: ORCHESTRATOR-project-plan.md
  • Timeline: PROJECT-TIMELINE.md
  • Architecture: AUTONOMOUS-AGENT-SYSTEM-DESIGN.md

Weekly Sync: Every Friday, 3:00 PM

Slack Channel: #Claude-autonomous-project

GitHub: [Repo URL]

Checklist Status: [ ] 0% Complete Last Updated: 2025-11-13 Target Completion: 8 weeks from start

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