The annual roadmap strawman dated 2025-12-22. The Star (Nao's CLI + ReAct kernel), the Conductor's Bridge vision, quarter-by-quarter kernel-first sequencing, dependency graph, Engine/Forge/Lab themes, QUBO portfolio dogfooding, Orion's GTM posture, and the Mirrors→Mobile→Robotics progression.
Introduces the Engine / Forge / Lab taxonomy. Exacta unlocks Charitable Gaming. Polaris commits to a two-week issue-drain before pushing the Always Live Market Model. B4M CLI v0.2.27 lands production-ready with a head-to-head against Claude Code.
What OpenClaw got wrong — web server gateway, prompt-based guardrails, single-process trust boundary, community skills, ambient permissions — and what B4M CLI does differently. Security as an architectural property, not a configuration option.