Roadmap

The current v1.14.x release line includes stable stdio, hosted Streamable HTTP through Render/Smithery, curated ABS/RBA/APRA retrieval, release-event awareness, convenience observation tools, generated documentation, and docs-site Vercel Analytics plus Speed Insights.

The roadmap stays official-source-first, macro-financial, read-only, and Australian-focused. The current response contract, {metadata, series, observations}, is protected until a genuinely different data model is required.

Current direction

The version-numbered release lines below are complete. Work now proceeds on two tracks.

Credibility layer

Make the server’s value measurable and visible rather than asserted:

• A published, reproducible evaluation measuring how much the server improves model answers on Australian-economics questions, built on the existing live golden-value verification.
• An automated weekly Australian macro briefing page generated deterministically from release events and latest observations — no modelling, no forecasting, facts only.

Broader Australian coverage

Additive coverage expansion, in rough order of priority:

• State and capital-city variants of existing ABS dataflows (labour force and CPI first).
• AOFM debt issuance, tender results, and outstanding-stock data as a new curated source.
• Jobs and Skills Australia Internet Vacancy Index to complement ABS job vacancies.
• A feasibility assessment of Treasury/Budget aggregates via PBO historical fiscal data.

Proprietary sources, ASX/market data, and forecasting or modelling remain out of scope.

Shipped release lines

• v1.1.x — operational polish: release-metadata alignment, analytics hygiene checks, and lightweight hosted deployment checks. No MCP API or response-schema changes.
• v1.2 — deeper ABS/RBA semantic coverage in three tranches: national accounts, credit and money aggregates, monthly CPI 2.0, and housing-lending commitments.
• v1.3 — the narrow get_derived_series layer with transparent formulas and explicit provenance; no modelling, forecasting, seasonal adjustment, or arbitrary user formulas.
• v1.4 — the APRA source-native foundation: curated official APRA XLSX retrieval through get_apra_data, plus the v1.4.1 reliability patch moving XLSX parsing off the event loop.
• v1.5 — semantic and source expansion: ABS household spending, additional RBA tables, APRA superannuation and insurance publications, and four more derived concepts.
• v1.6 — convenience and governance hardening: latest/top observation wrappers, dataset descriptions, release-event awareness, APRA URL governance, CodeQL, and a broader CI matrix.
• v1.12–v1.14 — distribution and trust: hosted no-install path, client install configs, nightly live golden-value validation, housing-price concepts, the branded mcp.auseconmcp.com endpoint, and automatic MCP-registry publishing.

v2.0

Reserve v2.0 for a second response model: non-time-series panels, distribution tables, or multi-dimensional public tables that cannot honestly fit {metadata, series, observations}. The trigger would be a new source (for example fiscal tables or institution-level panels) that the current contract cannot represent faithfully.