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Ecosystem Architecture Decision Candidates

Status: Discovery register only. These are not approved decisions or implementation authorization.

Candidate Decision required Required evidence before ADR
EC-ADR-01 Canonical package protocol and serialization Independent implementation, hashing, migration, and fuzz results.
EC-ADR-02 Trust roots and offline/Sigstore/TUF-compatible signing Threat model, key recovery, revocation, and air-gap exercises.
EC-ADR-03 Namespace ownership and cross-registry authority Abuse analysis, transfer, succession, trademark, and confusion tests.
EC-ADR-04 Federation, mirroring, and conflict resolution Outage, split-brain, data-residency, and deterministic reconciliation evidence.
EC-ADR-05 Moderation, appeals, and emergency action Governance, legal, abuse, transparency, and response-time review.
EC-ADR-06 Installation scopes and precedence Resolver prototypes, policy-bypass tests, migration, and rollback.
EC-ADR-07 Extension sandbox and lifecycle hooks Escape tests, permission model, host APIs, and resource-bounding evidence.
EC-ADR-08 OCI-compatible transport boundary Interoperability, offline, signature, cost, and portability analysis.
EC-ADR-09 Recommendation privacy and analytics consent Data inventory, privacy model, local alternative, revocation, and deletion tests.
EC-ADR-10 Search ranking, sponsorship, and transparency User research, abuse model, accessibility, neutrality, and audit design.
EC-ADR-11 Canonical capability families, namespaced types, and facets Taxonomy fixtures, extension tests, migration mapping, and ambiguity analysis.
EC-ADR-12 Host adapter normalization and translation loss reports Round-trip fixtures, host research, permission preservation, and degraded-mode usability.
EC-ADR-13 Deterministic orchestration graph, checkpoint, and replay semantics Crash recovery, duplicate-effect tests, graph validation, and state migration evidence.
EC-ADR-14 Agent-team authority, delegation, topology, and shared memory Threat model, role fixtures, isolation tests, conflict handling, and budget enforcement.
EC-ADR-15 Rule-set packaging and effective policy precedence Bypass corpus, deny-overrides proof, explanation testing, and policy migration.
EC-ADR-16 Schema-driven Capability Studio Builder prototypes, accessibility research, schema reuse, security review, and maintenance analysis.
EC-ADR-17 Evaluation and compatibility evidence contracts Fixture provenance, expiry, reproducibility, appeals, and unsupported-claim controls.
EC-ADR-18 Source-adapter acquisition and quarantine boundary Source fixtures, consent, digest identity, malicious-input tests, offline bundles, and retention policy.
EC-ADR-19 Semantic converter determinism and loss reporting Round-trip corpus, permission-delta proof, manual-adaptation UX, sandbox threat model, and reproducibility benchmarks.
EC-ADR-20 AgentSpace product boundary inside ForgeHub User research, authority map, shared-domain API proof, accessibility prototype, and naming review.
EC-ADR-21 Explainable recommendation evidence contract Local metadata inventory, bias and abuse model, policy simulation, dismissal/deletion UX, and privacy review.

Each candidate enters the Evidence Funnel at Discovery. Promotion requires an owner, feature proposal, alternatives, maintenance cost, compatibility impact, threat model, readiness scorecard, and explicit approval.