- hardening and refinement of plugin lifecycle/security runtime behavior
- deterministic reliability improvements for hot-plug and integration workflows
- stronger benchmark-backed guardrails for plugin hot paths
- plugin contracts remain backward compatible within major release line.
- lifecycle and security behavior remains explicit and deterministic.
- hot-plug/health/metrics behavior remains bounded and observable.
- degraded runtime integration paths remain explicit and non-silent.
| Interface | Requirement |
|---|---|
| lifecycle interfaces | deterministic load/unload/reload semantics |
| security interfaces | explicit manifest/signature/capability validation semantics |
| monitoring interfaces | bounded health and metrics reporting behavior |
| integration interfaces | stable OCI/RPC/WASM integration contracts |
- tighten parity between signature validation and runtime activation boundaries (Phase 2 task).
- standardize diagnostics for lifecycle, capability, and integration incidents (Phase 3 task).
- expand resilience tests for prolonged plugin churn and hot-plug operation (Phase 4 complete; expanding for Q4 2026).
- broaden benchmark depth for repository and runtime integration workloads (Phase 5 complete; baseline runs pending).
- unit and integration suites for lifecycle, security, and monitoring behaviors.
- regressions for malformed manifests, invalid signatures, and capability mismatch.
- deterministic stress runs for plugin churn and hot-plug operations.
- release-profile benchmark runs for mapped plugin targets.
- plugin hot paths remain inside regression budgets.
- lifecycle/query operations remain stable at p95/p99 envelopes.
- mapped benchmark manifests reach no-missing-case status for release gating.
- maintain strict validation before plugin activation paths.
- preserve explicit failure signaling for signature/capability/reload faults.
- enforce bounded behavior under malformed or partial plugin state.
- keep diagnostics actionable for production plugin incidents.