Defines the progression from sourced idea to reproduced experiment, implementation evidence, preview support, and stable capability.
Maturity path
- Research: sourced question, design, or report.
- Proposed: bounded architecture with owner and acceptance criteria.
- Experimental: implementation or experiment exists, with known gaps.
- Preview: published for limited use with explicit compatibility and support boundaries.
- Stable: versioned, tested, documented, supported, and monitored.
Planned and Deprecated describe scheduling or lifecycle, not evidence strength.
Scope
This starter page defines the questions, boundaries, evidence, and failure modes that should be recorded before a capability is presented as supported.
Engineering considerations
- Identify the source, version, target environment, and owner.
- Separate observed values from estimates and externally reported values.
- Record trade-offs, unsupported cases, and fallback behavior.
- Link performance statements to a compatible benchmark methodology.
Verification questions
- What exact artifact, revision, backend, and environment were reviewed?
- Which assumptions could change the result?
- Which data should be retained so another engineer can reproduce the conclusion?