Roadmap

This is a direction, not a set of promises. Priorities follow user feedback and maintainer capacity. Track actual progress on the releases page and the changelog.

Now

Mellow has been rewritten from the ground up in Go:

• Zero privileged intents.
• PostgreSQL with sqlc and versioned migrations.
• Anthropic Claude for AI, with fixed fallbacks when it is unavailable.
• Per-field AES-256-GCM encryption, wire-compatible with the previous database.
• Constrained crisis screening (fixed copy for high and critical results).
• Automatic sharding, HTTP API, and an owner-only changelog publisher.

The moderation commands, keyword auto-moderation, and Twitter/X integration from the old JavaScript bot were removed. Mellow is not a moderation bot.

Near term

• Stabilization: bug fixes, better error messages, more test coverage around crisis screening.
• Documentation upkeep as commands evolve.
• Small quality-of-life improvements to check-ins and coping tools.

Ideas being considered

Not committed, roughly in order of interest:

• Data export as a direct command rather than a support request.
• Optional pruning/retention controls for conversation history.
• More coping content and localisation.

Explicitly not planned

• Server moderation, auto-moderation, or content filtering.
• Reading arbitrary server messages (this would require a privileged intent).
• Clinical / EHR integrations, or presenting Mellow as a substitute for professional care.

Contributing

Feature requests and bug reports go to GitHub Issues. See the

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