v1.4.0 — Production Provider Platform¶

Purpose: Defines product intent, users, scope, non-goals, journeys, value, and measurable outcomes. Audience: product, architecture, engineering, security, operations, documentation, release, and AI coding agents Owner: Provider Platform Maintainers Roadmap authority: docs/strategy/FORGEVENA_VERSIONED_PRODUCT_ROADMAP.md#7-v140--production-provider-platform Lifecycle: planned Review: before implementation and at every lifecycle promotion

Problem and Business Value¶

Promote provider integrations into one secure, observable, provider-neutral contract with dated compatibility evidence.

This version reduces the operational and governance risk represented by its committed work while preserving local-first operation and human authority.

Personas and Journeys¶

• Individual developer: previews, validates, and adopts the capability locally.
• Platform engineer: configures policy, compatibility, and operational boundaries.
• Security or compliance reviewer: verifies evidence without receiving secrets or source content.
• Maintainer: publishes, supports, migrates, and retires the capability safely.

The primary journey is discover or configure, preview, validate, approve, apply, observe, update, and roll back.

Scope¶

• Provider Adapter Contract: Standardize metadata, authentication references, discovery, invocation, streaming, structured output, tools, health, usage, and errors.
• Provider Resilience and Compatibility: Add deadlines, cancellation, rate-limit interpretation, jittered retries, fallback chains, budgets, and dated compatibility manifests.

Candidates¶

• None approved.

Non-Goals¶

• No unsupported provider or model compatibility claim.
• No raw credential storage, mandatory cloud account, or automatic billing action.

Success Metrics¶

• Every supported provider passes the same offline contract suite.
• Compatibility evidence records model versions and verification dates.
• Unsafe non-idempotent requests are never retried automatically.