Governance

PanorAi is maintainer-led and contract-driven. Maintainers decide releases, public API tiers, compatibility policy, and repository scope. Contributors may propose changes through pull requests with tests and evidence.

Decisions follow these priorities:

  1. mathematical and provenance correctness;

  2. preservation of Stable and Compatibility promises;

  3. fail-closed handling of incompatible evidence;

  4. reproducibility from installed artifacts;

  5. measured performance and scientific usefulness.

An API is not promoted because it is broad, heavily used internally, or part of a release consolidation. Promotion requires the gates in the canonical API inventory and evidence from an installed artifact. Negative findings remain visible and may justify a do-not-promote recommendation.

The public roadmap communicates product direction. .agents/ contains current operational coordination only and is not a parallel product history. Git, release notes, public contracts, and docs/development/history.rst are the historical record.

Tags, package-index publication, irreversible data removal, and changes to Stable contracts require explicit maintainer authorization.