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v2.7.0 — Ecosystem Trust and Compatibility Network

Purpose: Feature specification for Compatibility and Evaluation Laboratories. Audience: product, architecture, engineering, security, operations, documentation, release, and AI coding agents Owner: Trust and Compatibility Maintainers Roadmap authority: docs/strategy/FORGEVENA_VERSIONED_PRODUCT_ROADMAP.md#v270--ecosystem-trust-and-compatibility-network Lifecycle: planned Review: before implementation and at every lifecycle promotion

Identity

  • Feature ID: compatibility-evaluation-labs
  • Classification: committed
  • Owner: Trust and Compatibility Maintainers

Purpose and Problem

Continuously test providers, hosts, operating systems, packages, prompts, skills, workflows, agents, safety, cost, latency, and reliability.

Business and Developer Value

Support claims become reproducible and dated rather than promotional.

Architecture

Labs execute deterministic fixtures plus gated live tests and publish signed, expiring evidence records.

Dependencies

  • v2.6 host bridges
  • v1.9 workflows

Configuration and User Flow

Configuration is schema-validated, secret-reference-only, previewable, exportable without secrets, and governed by scope. The user flow is inspect, preview, validate, approve, apply, verify, and roll back.

CLI, Dashboard, and API Flow

CLI, dashboard, SDK, and API surfaces call the same domain service. Structured responses include operation ID, status, warnings, planned changes, policy result, and evidence references. No interface may bypass consent or policy.

Security, Privacy, and Reliability

Permissions, data classes, trust roots, external effects, timeouts, retries, cancellation, audit, recovery, and rollback are explicit. Prompts, responses, tokens, credentials, and unapproved source content are excluded from logs and diagnostics.

Testing and Acceptance

  • Fixtures reproduce.
  • Live tests are credential-gated.
  • Evidence expiry blocks stale claims.

Performance Targets

The feature must publish an approved baseline, remain within the platform's 20% regression budget, and define tighter latency, throughput, resource, and cost targets before preview.

Migration and Documentation

Migration is preview-first, versioned, reversible, and compatible with the previous two stable releases where applicable. CLI help, schemas, examples, troubleshooting, operations, security, and migration guidance ship with implementation.

Risks

  • Test coverage creates false confidence.
  • Live provider changes cause rapid evidence churn.

Future Expansion

Expansion remains in the Evidence Funnel and requires a new feature ID or approved scope change; it cannot be inferred from this specification.