Roadmap

Phase 1: Core Credibility

Goal: Make the artifact model undeniable.

• Agent, package, source, and profile artifacts
• Deterministic builders
• Lockfile
• Diff and inspect
• Exact Claude Code, Codex, and OpenClaw adapters
• Strong validation and error reporting

Success signal: Teams can replace ad hoc runtime config with stax artifacts.

Phase 2: Distribution UX

Goal: Make publishing and installation feel easy.

• Install command
• Search and discovery conventions
• Package metadata improvements
• Compatibility metadata
• Import/export bridges for adjacent ecosystems

Success signal: People use stax as the default way to publish and consume reusable agent packages.

Phase 3: Trust and Enterprise Policy

Goal: Make stax viable for real organizational deployment.

• Signing and verification defaults
• Attestation conventions
• Approval workflows
• Evaluation attachment and gating
• Namespace and publisher policy

Success signal: Enterprises can approve and promote agents by artifact digest.

Phase 4: Cloud Distribution Integrations

Goal: Make stax the default package handed to remote systems.

• Generic cloud/hosted adapter guidance
• Source/profile attachment workflows
• Registry mirroring and promotion flows
• Environment compatibility declarations

Success signal: Remote platforms accept stax artifacts as deployment inputs.

Phase 5: Ecosystem Standardization

Goal: Move from product to category infrastructure.

• Conformance suites
• Multiple independent implementations
• Registry interoperability
• Stable import/export bridges
• Formal standardization process

Success signal: stax is treated as a neutral ecosystem layer rather than one vendor's project.

What Success Looks Like

stax wins if the common language of the ecosystem looks like this:

• "Publish the agent as a stax artifact."
• "Pin the source snapshot by digest."
• "Install the approved package set."
• "Attach the latest evaluation referrer."
• "Promote the same artifact from staging to production."
• "Mirror the registry internally."
• "Roll back to the last approved digest."