Roadmap & Evidence Gaps

This page records evidence and stabilization work, not promised delivery dates. Program tracking: stacksjs/stacks#2060.

Current status

The white paper is a governed Protocol 1.0 working draft. RFC 0001 is accepted; RFCs 0002–0005 are proposed with review ending 20 August 2026. Reference implementation code does not bypass that review window.

Stacks.js is a pre-1.0 reference implementation with no profile claim. The generated evidence page pins source bf1245e336ab14551e22cb7d88284f93e649a1a2, evidence commit 2a17dd38ffbe9f910273e3777079e7f1ec1623ba, and RFC commit ea9dbe438aca308085372e68aaa82ebe2e92b8d0.

Completed foundations

RFC 0001 publishes maintainers, sponsorship, quorum, voting, conflicts, appeals, security handling, compatibility classes, and review windows.
Specification text is CC BY 4.0; fixtures/runner material is MIT-licensed.
RFC 0002 proposes 47 stable requirement IDs and Core ← Standard ← Complete inheritance with pass-only claim semantics.
RFC 0003 proposes 16 deterministic runner-neutral fixtures and database, queue, cache, storage, mail, realtime, and deployment contracts.
RFC 0004 proposes a JSON Schema plus semantic checks for attributable reports.
An independent standard-library Python runner consumes the shared suite and reports 15 passes without claiming a profile.
Stacks CI pins the RFC revision, rejects suite drift, runs its adapter, validates the report, and retains JSON/Markdown artifacts. Its claim remains null.
A deterministic source manifest, runtime driver registry, and Craft support matrix now feed this paper through a checksummed evidence lock.

Governance gates

#2050, #2051, and #2052 stay open until their RFC review/vote records are complete.
RFC 0005 and #2061 block broad production claims for environment encryption.
A profile claim requires every inherited requirement to pass; skipped, unsupported, exception, and experimental results never satisfy it.

Reference implementation evidence still needed

Wire the remaining protocol fixtures to public Stacks APIs and publish per-driver service versions/topologies in retained CI reports.
Add deterministic OpenAPI, declaration, and Buddy command-reference freshness checks (#2056, #2032).
Expand provider-contract matrices without turning missing credentials into false passes (#2057).
Complete independent review and disposition for environment envelope v2 (#2058, #2061).
Provision platform signing/notarization and retain native install, launch, update, rollback, and uninstall evidence before any Craft row becomes stable (#2059, #2062, #2063).

Documentation quality still needed

Tag remaining capability pages with maturity and last-verified evidence.
Test selected commands/snippets and internal links in CI.
Keep provider-specific claims tied to exact provider revisions.
Keep protocol requirements in the RFC repository and Stacks.js syntax in implementation guides.
Continue removing unsupported benchmark and legal-compliance conclusions.

Extension work

AI, analytics, desktop, CMS, commerce, search, and internationalization are independent extension badges. Craft is currently reported as experimental; the other extensions remain unsupported by the Stacks protocol adapter until their specific evidence is executed.

Licenses and community

Specification: CC BY 4.0
Fixtures and runner: MIT
Stacks.js implementation: MIT
Governance: RFC 0001
Discussions: github.com/stacksjs/stacks/discussions