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The requirement inventory explains how to interpret v0.1 conformance coverage. It does not replace the prose specification. The prose remains the final normative authority, while conformance/REQUIREMENTS.md documents how role-scoped requirement IDs, fixtures, schemas, and deferred topics fit together.

Requirement categories

The inventory separates conformance material into four categories:
  1. Role-scoped requirements — stable AV-BIB-* and AV-CLI-* IDs in the specification.
  2. Fixture-covered behavior — deterministic vectors or schemas in conformance/fixtures/ and schemas/.
  3. Prose-boundary behavior — requirements that need implementation tests, local policy, OpenAPI/schema review, or manual review rather than one offline vector.
  4. Deferred behavior — topics intentionally outside the portable v0.1 baseline.

Role-scoped anchors

The stable IDs are the main conformance anchors for v0.1:
  • AV-BIB-001 through AV-BIB-018 define conforming bibliotheca behavior.
  • AV-CLI-001 through AV-CLI-018 define conforming client behavior.
The machine-readable traceability map is conformance/fixtures/conformance-coverage.json. It maps those IDs to fixture families and schemas. This page is a summary only; schemas/conformance-coverage.schema.json and the coverage artifact are authoritative for role, area, coverage type, schema reference, fixture path, and case-level fields. One AV-* ID can cover several lower-level BCP 14 requirements in the prose.

Bibliotheca requirement map

AV-BIB-* IDs describe registry-side behavior. Use this map to find the fixture family or contract surface that exercises each requirement.
IDRegistry behaviorPrimary coverage
AV-BIB-001Accept and serve valid manifests.manifest-valid-minimal.json
AV-BIB-002Block continued distribution after permission escalation is discovered.permission-escalation.json
AV-BIB-003Implement the package operations API.openapi/bibliotheca.openapi.yaml, problem-details-cases.json, problem-registry.json
AV-BIB-004Enforce version immutability and version non-reuse.release-upload-lifecycle.json / release-upload-conflict
AV-BIB-005Compute authoritative normalized-file-tree integrity during finalize.digest-vectors.json, digest-invalid-cases.json, tar-archive-profile-cases.json
AV-BIB-006Support the package identity scheme.purl-canonicalization-cases.json
AV-BIB-007Expose query-based catalog search.search-results.json, catalog-search-failure-cases.json
AV-BIB-008Expose synchronized package-scoped version indexes.version-index.json, version-index-row-cases.json, lifecycle-mutation-cases.json
AV-BIB-009Treat logical purl and digest as release identities.exact-release-metadata-cases.json
AV-BIB-010Reject inconsistent release, index, or trust metadata.resolver-cases.json / version-index-release-metadata-conflict
AV-BIB-011Expose trust metadata summary and detail views.trust-summary*.json, trust-detail*.json, trust discovery failure cases
AV-BIB-012Expose two-phase release and trust uploads with http-put.release-upload-lifecycle.json, trust-upload-lifecycle.json
AV-BIB-013Expose the advisory API.advisory*.json, advisory failure and validation cases
AV-BIB-014Expose capability metadata with version fields, API family, and upload profiles.capability-metadata*.json, capability compatibility fixtures
AV-BIB-015Preserve append-only trust attachment status and revision semantics.trust-detail-status-variants.json
AV-BIB-016Publish required machine-readable companion artifacts or equivalents.schemas/, mapping-matrix.json, mapping-sample.json, conformance-coverage.json
AV-BIB-017Expose declaration-only external dependency metadata without resolved evidence claims.exact-release-metadata-cases.json
AV-BIB-018Keep external dependency search/filtering/potential-exposure APIs outside the required portable registry API.external-dependency-potential-exposure-cases.json

Client requirement map

AV-CLI-* IDs describe client-side behavior. Use this map to scope parser, resolver, installer, trust, capability, and warning tests.
IDClient behaviorPrimary coverage
AV-CLI-001Parse volume.toml and validate the canonical parsed-data model.manifest-parse-cases.json, semantic-validation-cases.json, component-dependency-validation-cases.json
AV-CLI-002Parse portable dependency range expressions.semver-range-cases.json
AV-CLI-003Fail on permission escalation in publish, consume, install, or load workflows.permission-sibling-escalation.json
AV-CLI-004Reject dependency graphs requiring multiple versions of the same volume.resolver-cases.json / single-version-conflict
AV-CLI-005Apply portable version lifecycle semantics during resolution and exact installs.resolver-cases.json, version-index-row-cases.json
AV-CLI-006Fetch exact release metadata before installation or trust evaluation.exact-release-metadata-cases.json
AV-CLI-007Verify normalized-file-tree integrity after download or source resolution.digest-vectors.json, digest-invalid-cases.json, tar-archive-profile-cases.json
AV-CLI-008Support scoped and scopeless volume identifiers.purl-canonicalization-cases.json
AV-CLI-009Use purl plus digest as release identities for trust metadata.trust-artifact-verification-cases.json
AV-CLI-010Reject subject-binding, metadata, or digest mismatches.trust-artifact-verification-cases.json
AV-CLI-011Distinguish canonical trust facts from derived judgments.trust-summary.json
AV-CLI-012Treat invalidated or revoked trust as failure by default and superseded attachments as stale current evidence.trust-detail-status-variants.json, trust-artifact-verification-cases.json
AV-CLI-013Implement layered objective artifact verification for supported formats.trust-artifact-verification-cases.json
AV-CLI-014Preserve runtime and protocol compatibility expressions without unknown-scheme rejection.semantic-validation-cases.json / unknown-compatibility-scheme-is-advisory-not-rejection
AV-CLI-015Consume capability metadata while tolerating unknown fields or values and preserving exact spec-version set semantics.capability-metadata-unknown-tolerance.json, capability-invalid-compatibility-cases.json
AV-CLI-016Surface required migration warnings during bridge periods.bridge-metadata.json, bridge-metadata-status-variants.json
AV-CLI-017Parse and semantically validate external dependency declarations.external-dependency-validation-cases.json, invalid external dependency fixtures, upstream baseline and compatibility exception fixtures
AV-CLI-018Surface and deduplicate external-dependency potential exposure warnings only for intersecting declaration/advisory ranges.external-dependency-potential-exposure-cases.json, warning context invalid fixtures

Fixture-covered areas

The v0.1 fixture corpus covers readiness-critical surfaces such as manifest parsing, semantic validation, permissions, identity, resolver behavior, external dependency declarations, archive and integrity behavior, release upload, trust metadata, advisories, capabilities, warnings, mappings, and search. See Conformance fixtures for the fixture family list and runner contract.

Prose-boundary behavior

Some normative behavior is intentionally not represented by a standalone offline vector. Implementers and reviewers evaluate these through prose review, OpenAPI/schema alignment, implementation tests, or local policy documentation:
  • live registry behavior such as deployed service behavior, storage replication, CDN behavior, and operational consistency
  • local authorization policy, including token issuance, token revocation, publisher ownership proofs, and resource authorization
  • runtime adapter behavior after the portable load boundary
  • cryptographic trust roots and live transparency-log policy
  • search ranking and catalog ordering beyond the portable pagination shape
  • external dependency discovery surfaces beyond declaration-only exact release metadata
These boundaries are not readiness gaps by themselves. They define what a v0.1 conformance claim can and cannot mean.

Deferred v0.1 topics

The following topics remain outside the portable v0.1 baseline unless the corresponding decision record is reopened:
  • lockfile file format
  • registry-priority policy across configured bibliothecas
  • universal prerelease-selection policy
  • advisory write authority and moderation workflows
  • scanner-finding interchange and scanner severity normalization
  • common vocabulary for non-mandatory derived judgments
  • universal trust-root policy
  • component-level advisory targeting
  • transitive closure semantics for role = "meta"
  • upload profiles beyond the mandatory http-put portable minimum
  • AI-specific BOM profile guarantees beyond the generic CycloneDX baseline
  • structured deprecation metadata
  • broader MCP configuration formats such as YAML
  • finer permission granularity beyond the read/write baseline
  • future strict, enterprise, or other profiles beyond the v0.1 core
Do not count deferred topics as v0.1 readiness gaps unless the corresponding ADR says its reconsideration trigger has been met.

Readiness checklist

Before claiming implementation readiness for a draft release:
  1. Validate the artifact corpus with npm run validate:artifacts.
  2. Validate the Bibliotheca API with npm run lint:openapi.
  3. Confirm every role-scoped AV-* requirement has fixture, schema, OpenAPI, or documented prose-boundary coverage.
  4. Confirm deferred topics are documented as local policy choices rather than accidental omissions.
  5. For release freeze, perform the endpoint-level prose/OpenAPI drift audit in openapi/PROSE-DRIFT-AUDIT.md.

Conformance overview

Review claim labels and minimum viable client and bibliotheca requirements.

Conformance fixtures

Explore the offline fixture families and report schema.