meta: active roadmap QuantLab ↔ Stepbit

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Objective

Track the live QuantLab ↔ Stepbit roadmap at a meta level without mixing already-completed stabilization work with the remaining integration phases.

This issue should remain open only while it links real, active follow-up work.

Current roadmap status

Completed foundation

The QuantLab-side automation foundation is already in place and should be treated as completed groundwork:

• stable machine-facing request entrypoint via --json-request
• optional session lifecycle signalling via --signal-file
• canonical run artifacts under outputs/runs/<run_id>/
• canonical machine-facing result data in report.json.machine_contract
• automatic refresh of runs_index.csv/json/md
• runtime health/version surfaces via --check and --version

Live follow-up work

• feat(integration): add QuantLabTool adapter MVP for local Stepbit execution #61 feat(integration): add QuantLabTool adapter MVP for local Stepbit execution
• feat(integration): distributed QuantLab sweeps orchestration (post-MVP) #29 feat(integration): distributed QuantLab sweeps orchestration (post-MVP)

Sequencing rule

1. Finish the local adapter MVP in feat(integration): add QuantLabTool adapter MVP for local Stepbit execution #61.
2. Validate the local bridge end-to-end.
3. Only then consider distributed sweep orchestration in feat(integration): distributed QuantLab sweeps orchestration (post-MVP) #29.

Meta-issue rules

• 1 issue = 1 branch = 1 PR
• do not mix local adapter MVP work with distributed orchestration work
• any change to contract, CLI, or operational flow must update docs
• this issue should be kept lean and only point to active sub-issues

Exit rule

Close this issue when there are no longer live sub-issues to coordinate, or when a better roadmap document/epic replaces it.