# Gitlore Feature Ideas

Central registry of potential features. Each idea leverages data already ingested
into the local SQLite database (issues, MRs, discussions, notes, resource events,
entity references, embeddings, file changes).

## Priority Tiers

**Tier 1 — High confidence, low effort, immediate value:**

| # | Idea | File | Confidence |
|---|------|------|------------|
| 9 | Similar Issues Finder | [similar-issues.md](similar-issues.md) | 95% |
| 17 | "What Changed?" Digest | [digest.md](digest.md) | 93% |
| 5 | Who Knows About X? | [experts.md](experts.md) | 92% |
| -- | Multi-Project Ergonomics | [project-ergonomics.md](project-ergonomics.md) | 90% |
| 27 | Weekly Digest Generator | [weekly-digest.md](weekly-digest.md) | 90% |
| 4 | Stale Discussion Finder | [stale-discussions.md](stale-discussions.md) | 90% |

**Tier 2 — Strong ideas, moderate effort:**

| # | Idea | File | Confidence |
|---|------|------|------------|
| 19 | MR-to-Issue Closure Gap | [closure-gaps.md](closure-gaps.md) | 88% |
| 1 | Contributor Heatmap | [contributors.md](contributors.md) | 88% |
| 21 | Knowledge Silo Detection | [silos.md](silos.md) | 87% |
| 2 | Review Bottleneck Detector | [bottlenecks.md](bottlenecks.md) | 85% |
| 14 | File Hotspot Report | [hotspots.md](hotspots.md) | 85% |
| 26 | Unlinked MR Finder | [unlinked.md](unlinked.md) | 83% |
| 6 | Decision Archaeology | [decisions.md](decisions.md) | 82% |
| 18 | Label Hygiene Audit | [label-audit.md](label-audit.md) | 82% |

**Tier 3 — Promising, needs more design work:**

| # | Idea | File | Confidence |
|---|------|------|------------|
| 29 | Entity Relationship Explorer | [graph.md](graph.md) | 80% |
| 12 | Milestone Risk Report | [milestone-risk.md](milestone-risk.md) | 78% |
| 3 | Label Velocity | [label-flow.md](label-flow.md) | 78% |
| 24 | Recurring Bug Patterns | [recurring-patterns.md](recurring-patterns.md) | 76% |
| 7 | Cross-Project Impact Graph | [impact-graph.md](impact-graph.md) | 75% |
| 16 | Idle Work Detector | [idle.md](idle.md) | 73% |
| 8 | MR Churn Analysis | [churn.md](churn.md) | 72% |
| 15 | Author Collaboration Network | [collaboration.md](collaboration.md) | 70% |
| 28 | DiffNote Coverage Map | [review-coverage.md](review-coverage.md) | 75% |
| 25 | MR Pipeline Efficiency | [mr-pipeline.md](mr-pipeline.md) | 78% |

## Rejected Ideas (with reasons)

| # | Idea | Reason |
|---|------|--------|
| 10 | Sprint Burndown from Labels | Too opinionated about label semantics |
| 11 | Code Review Quality Score | Subjective "quality" scoring creates perverse incentives |
| 13 | Discussion Sentiment Drift | Unreliable heuristic sentiment on technical text |
| 20 | Response Time Leaderboard | Toxic "leaderboard" framing; metric folded into #2 |
| 22 | Timeline Diff | Niche use case; timeline already interleaves events |
| 23 | Discussion Thread Summarizer | Requires LLM inference; out of scope for local-first tool |
| 30 | NL Query Interface | Over-engineered; existing filters cover this |

## How to use this list

1. Pick an idea from Tier 1 or Tier 2
2. Read its detail file for implementation plan and SQL sketches
3. Create a bead (`br create`) referencing the idea file
4. Implement following TDD (test first, then minimal impl)
5. Update the idea file with `status: implemented` when done