Karakeep — Roadmap

Derived from karakeep-app/karakeep issues + pull requests as shabda intake (external word, not verified fact). Each cited item carries its verified author (resolved from the GitHub API, never inferred) and an author/engagement weight. Inferred dependencies are flagged as hypothesis, not maintainer decisions.

What to do next

Cut the committed 0.33.0 release first. The only committed milestone — 15 open issues, all weighted high (milestone membership outranks reactions). Start with the four maintainer-authored items (#2660, #2667, #2669 — MohamedBassem; #2694 — esimkowitz), then clear the remaining 11.
Land the AI-native layer (#207): two maintainer foundations already merged (embeddings PR #2857, assistant prep PR #2861); finish the open AI PRs so the headline feature set ships.
Keep self-hosting bounded (#208): the memory/CPU leak risks (#1748, #2344, #2519) are the highest-confidence reliability work; pair with the Postgres (PR#2825) and Docker-trim (PR#2625) PRs.
Run mobile/reader (#210) in parallel; defer Sharing & collaboration (#209) — it is blocked behind #208.

Committed milestone tier — `0.33.0` committed

🜂 0.33.0 release · #198 adhimoksha (committed)

modes: pratyakshita · anagata · adhimoksha · GitHub milestone #7, opened 2026-04-20 · 15 open / 2 closed

Telos: Karakeep ships its committed 0.33.0 release — every one of the 15 open milestone issues (10 approved features + 5 approved bugfixes) resolved or consciously bumped, so the next version closes as planned rather than slipping issue-by-issue. Destination: the 0.33.0 milestone is empty of open issues.

Milestone membership outranks reaction count — these are committed work regardless of engagement. The full milestone is listed below; the release is not complete until every row is resolved or consciously bumped. The ★ Gate column flags a top-priority subset (maintainer-authored + highest-signal bugfixes) you may sequence first — it does not mean the rest are optional.

Ref	Title	Verified author	Assoc.	Weight	Kind	Gate
#2660	feat: Agentic interaction improvements for search and content extraction	MohamedBassem	COLLABORATOR	high	feature	★
#2667	feat: allow previewing rule engine rules	MohamedBassem	COLLABORATOR	high	feature	★
#2669	bug: removing accounts with large number of bookmarks can lock the database for a long period of time (aka background reaping support)	MohamedBassem	COLLABORATOR	high	bug	★
#2694	feat: Introduce bookmark "trash" and undo deletion button	esimkowitz	COLLABORATOR	high	feature	★
#2817	Screenshot previewer does not show scroll bar	Summon528	CONTRIBUTOR	high	bug	★
#441	[Feature request] Selfhosted semantic search	JojiiOfficial	NONE	high	feature
#863	Chat about your bookmarks	sherry-ummen-zalando	NONE	high	feature
#1592	Share single bookmark to anyone	Draky50110	NONE	high	feature
#2172	Uncertain origin of alpine chrome image	MemQu	NONE	high	bug
#2502	Saving a page that was previously saved fails	Garrett-R	NONE	high	feature
#2591	[FR] Basic article TTS	zblesk	NONE	high	feature
#2594	Links from collaborators are not visible in public lists	karabays	NONE	high	bug
#2752	RSS downstream should return full content	wesamjabali	NONE	high	feature
#2798	[bug][ux] Autosaving tags can autoclose the edit window when in the removed tag's feed	NotaInutilis	NONE	high	bug
#2882	Add title and favourites button to browser extension	shannonr	NONE	high	feature

Completeness guard: 15 of 15 open milestone issues are listed above. The 5 ★ rows are a sequencing hint, not a claim that the subset completes the milestone — the remaining 10 are still required for the release to cut.

Second milestone — Backlog (not committed): GitHub milestone #5 ("Things that the project maintainers will want to work on at some point"), 12 open / 7 closed. Not scheduled work; its highest-signal items feed the thematic directions below, not the committed release.

Release dependency order (`anantara`)

The committed 0.33.0 release is committed and is not itself blocked by an anantara predecessor. Its issues are distributed across the thematic directions below (each direction names which 0.33.0 issue it carries). The single anantara edge in the map is between two thematic directions:

🜂 #208 Self-hosting robustness ──▶ unblocks ──▶ 🜂 #209 Sharing & collaboration blocked hypothesis

Thematic directions (in `anantara` dependency order)

1 · 🜂 AI-native bookmark intelligence · #207 ready

modes: anumita · vartamana · chanda · nothing blocks it

Telos: Karakeep becomes an AI-native bookmark assistant — semantic search, chat over saved content, and agentic interaction become first-class, built on the merged embedding + assistant foundations.

Carries from 0.33.0: #2660 (agentic, MohamedBassem, COLLABORATOR), #2667 (rule preview, MohamedBassem, COLLABORATOR), #863 (chat, sherry-ummen-zalando, NONE), #441 (semantic search, JojiiOfficial, NONE) — all high.

Ref	What	Verified author	Assoc.	Weight
PR#2861	AI assistant component prep (merged foundation)	MohamedBassem	COLLABORATOR	high
PR#2857	Bookmark embedding support (merged foundation)	(PR)	—	high
PR#2820	Agentic search content + bookmark slicing (carries #2660)	vbalko-claimate	CONTRIBUTOR	high
PR#2890	Native Anthropic (Claude) inference provider	(PR)	—	medium
PR#2785	Configurable LLM temperature (default 0)	(PR)	—	medium
PR#2684	Automated tagging prompt/model evals	(PR)	—	medium
#2189	Enhanced prompt customization for AI tagging (path)	(issue)	—	medium
#2716	Retry-AI-tagging button (path)	(issue)	—	medium

Unblocks: the headline feature set of the 0.33.0 release.

2 · 🜂 Self-hosting robustness and resource health · #208 ready

modes: anumita · vartamana · chanda · nothing blocks it · gates #209 (hypothesis)

Telos: Karakeep becomes dependable to self-host at scale — crawls, imports, and containers stop leaking memory/CPU or corrupting data, and the data layer (optional Postgres, preflight health checks, supply-chain clarity) holds up for large deployments.

Carries from 0.33.0: #2669 (account-removal DB lock, MohamedBassem, COLLABORATOR, high) · #2172 (alpine-chrome image, MemQu, NONE, high).

Ref	What	Kind	Weight
#1748	High worker memory on large imports	risk	high
#2344	Memory leak in 0.30 with Pangolin	risk	high
#2519	Orphaned assets left when parser OOMs	risk	high
#2369	Chromium high idle CPU after large imports	risk	high
#2397	Higher docker CPU usage since 0.29.3	risk	medium
#1667	Image-download failure fails entire crawl	risk	medium
#1977	Full-page archives broken after CSP blocklist	risk	medium
#2304	SingleFile support broken in 0.90.2/0.90.3	risk	medium
#2404	Cannot bind listen address to all interfaces	risk	medium
#2885	Reddit crawling now blocked	risk	medium
PR#2825	Postgres support (carrier in flight)	deed	high
PR#2625	Split docker builders, trim worker image	deed	medium
#1782	External database support (Postgres) — path	path	high
#1611	Preflight health checks before background jobs — path	path	medium

Unblocks: #209 Sharing and collaboration (hypothesis — see dependency note below).

3 · 🜂 Mobile and reader experience · #210 ready

modes: anumita · vartamana · chanda · nothing blocks it

Telos: Karakeep becomes pleasant on phone and in the reader — offline mobile access, swipe actions, auto-hiding reader chrome, text-alignment and math in the reader, and inline media make daily reading-on-the-go smooth rather than desktop-first.

Carries from 0.33.0: #2502 (re-save previously saved page, Garrett-R, NONE, high) · #2817 (screenshot scrollbar, Summon528, CONTRIBUTOR, high).

Ref	What	Weight
PR#2895	Inline video playback on bookmark cards	medium
PR#2843	Android home-screen search-results widget	medium
PR#2855	Text alignment option in reader settings	medium
PR#2733	Auto-hiding reader chrome on mobile	medium
PR#2783	Render Distill math in reader view	medium
#2401	Offline mode for the mobile app — path	medium
#2781	Swipe actions on mobile apps — path	medium

Unblocks: nothing downstream; a parallel clean-up direction.

4 · 🜂 Sharing and collaboration · #209 blocked

modes: anumita · vartamana · chanda · blocked: after #208 hypothesis (kalpita)

Telos: Karakeep becomes genuinely shareable — public single-bookmark links, searchable collaborative lists, pretty public-list/RSS URLs, and full-content downstream RSS make shared and collaborative collections first-class instead of private-only.

Carries from 0.33.0: #2594 (collaborator links missing, karabays, NONE, high) · #2752 (full-content downstream RSS, wesamjabali, NONE, high) · #1592 (share single bookmark, Draky50110, NONE, high).

Ref	What	Weight
#1800	Pretty URLs for public lists and RSS — path	medium
#2247	Searchable collaborative lists — path	medium

Dependency (anantara): after #208 Self-hosting robustness and resource health — HYPOTHESIS (kalpita), not a maintainer-stated ordering. Inferred because searchable collaborative lists + collaborator visibility lean on the data-layer robustness (Postgres / health checks) landing first. Validate before treating as a hard gate.

Provenance & honesty notes

Shabda intake. Every issue/PR was landed as external word (kalpita), not verified fact. Treat directions as hypotheses until the maintainer confirms.
Authors verified, never inferred. authorAssociation resolved from the GitHub API per item. MohamedBassem is the repo owner; his issues resolve as COLLABORATOR on the API and are weighted high. Community contributions are attributed to their real authors, never to the maintainer.
One inferred dependency, marked. The only anantara edge (#209 after #208) is an architectural inference (kalpita), hedged above — not an established maintainer decision.
Completeness guard. The committed 0.33.0 tier lists all 15 open milestone issues; the 5 ★ rows are a sequencing hint, not a claim that the subset completes the milestone.