Development documentation

This section contains maintainer-facing documentation for TopMark's architecture, compatibility contracts, release process, generated documentation pipeline, and post-1.0 governance model.

Use these pages when changing internals, reviewing compatibility boundaries, preparing releases, or understanding how the stable 1.x runtime model is organized.

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Architecture and runtime model

• Terminology and canonical vocabulary
• Architecture
• Registry model
• Resolution
• Plugins and extensibility
• Configuration schema
• Pipelines
• Pipelines reference hub

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Compatibility and output contracts

• API stability and snapshot policy
• Machine-readable format conventions

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Documentation and release governance

• Documentation pipeline and reference hygiene
• Documentation conventions
• Release process
• Road to TopMark 1.0
• TopMark 1.0 roadmap