# Critical Analysis: What We're Missing

## 🔴 Critical Gaps:

1. **No Task Retry Logic** - When a task fails, it just fails. No automatic retry for transient failures.
   - We have `retryWithBackoff` utility but it's only used for Git/GitHub operations
   - Failed tasks just get marked as FAILED and that's it

2. **No Metrics/Observability** - We don't track:
   - Success/failure rates
   - Average task duration
   - Performance trends
   - System throughput
   - This makes it hard to optimize or debug issues

3. **No Health Endpoint** - While we monitor resources internally, there's no way to:
   - Check if the system is healthy
   - Get system status via API
   - Monitor from external tools

## 🟡 Nice-to-Have Gaps:

4. **No Task History Analysis** - Can't answer questions like:
   - What's our success rate?
   - Which tasks fail most often?
   - How long do tasks typically take?

5. **No Smart Retry Logic** - Could differentiate between:
   - Transient failures (network, rate limits) - should retry
   - Permanent failures (syntax errors, missing files) - shouldn't retry

## 🟢 Not Actually Missing:

- Worker creation is handled differently (not via domain model)
- Task status updates work fine with `updateTask()`
- Duration can be calculated from timestamps when needed

## Should We Add These Features?

**YES for Critical Features:**

1. **Task Retry Logic** - Add a `retryCount` field to tasks and retry logic for transient failures
2. **Basic Metrics** - At minimum, track success/failure counts and average duration
3. **Health Endpoint** - Essential for production monitoring

**MAYBE for Nice-to-Have:**
- Depends on actual usage patterns and needs

The fact that these functions existed in the test suggests someone was thinking about these features, but they were never implemented. This is actually valuable insight - the tests were aspirational, showing what the system SHOULD have, not what it HAS.