Mesh Implementation Roadmap

The project is divided into 7 phases spanning approximately 30 weeks. Each phase delivers a working, standalone increment.

Phase 1 ──► Phase 2 ──► Phase 3 ──► Phase 4 ──► Phase 5 ──► Phase 6 ──► Phase 7
 Senses      Brain      Memory       Eyes       Human     Discovery    Slow Burn
 Wk 1-3     Wk 4-6     Wk 7-9     Wk 10-14   Wk 15-18   Wk 19-24    Wk 25-30

Phase 1: Foundation and Ingestion — “The Senses”

Timeline: Weeks 1-3 Goal: A working Go API that accepts data and persists it.

Project Scaffolding
PostgreSQL 16 + pgvector setup
Basic REST Ingestion API
Web Scraper Integration (Week 3)

Phase 2: Processing and Intelligence — “The Brain”

Timeline: Weeks 4-6 Goal: Background workers for content extraction, tagging, and embeddings.

Worker Pool Implementation
HTML Stripping Pipeline
Ollama (Gemma 4) Integration
Automatic Edge Building

Phase 3: Graph Traversal and Query API — “The Memory”

Timeline: Weeks 7-9 Goal: Rich query API for graph traversal, search, and similarity.

Recursive CTE Traversal
Full-text and Semantic Search
Hybrid Search (RRF)
Node/Edge CRUD

Phase 4: Frontend Visualization — “The Eyes”

Timeline: Weeks 10-14 Goal: Interactive knowledge graph web UI.

React + TypeScript + Vite Scaffolding
Cytoscape.js Rendering
Search/Filter Dashboard
Node Detail Side Panels

Timeline: Weeks 15-18

MinIO Object Storage for images/PDFs
Image Understanding (Gemma 4 Vision)
PDF and Voice Note Ingestion
Rich Text Journaling

Phase 6: Anti-Echo Chamber Engine — “Discovery”

Timeline: Weeks 19-24

Cluster Density Analysis
Bridge Detection (Adjacent Possible)
Wildcard Topic Injection
De-duplication Logic

Phase 7: Spaced Repetition and Semantic Depth — “The Slow Burn”

Timeline: Weeks 25-30

FSRS Spaced Repetition Implementation
Knowledge Decay Visualization
Nightly Semantic Edge Builder
Serendipity Metrics Tracking