Trims the repo root listing so the README is reached with less scrolling. Only these two were movable; the other five root .md files are load-bearing and stay put: - README.md / README.zh-CN.md — the landing page and the language-switcher entry point - CLAUDE.md — Claude Code loads project instructions from the ROOT path; moving it silently breaks every future session in this repo - AGENTS.md — the agent-convention file Codex reads from the root and injects as context (see the comments in session-routes.ts) - CHANGELOG.md — the changesets default writer emits it next to package.json, so moving it breaks `npm run version-packages` GitHub officially resolves .github/SECURITY.md, so the Security policy tab keeps working. Inbound links updated in both READMEs, CLAUDE.md and docs/versioning-policy.md. CHANGELOG.md also names SECURITY.md but is left alone: it is a historical record, not a live reference. The move broke a link the other direction too: SECURITY.md pointed at docs/security-architecture.md, which from .github/ resolved to .github/docs/... — repointed to ../docs/. All relative links in the six touched files verified resolving (62 links, 0 broken). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Versioning & Stability Policy
Codeman follows Semantic Versioning (MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH),
managed via @changesets/cli (see the COM workflow in CLAUDE.md).
This document defines what the version number actually promises — i.e. which surfaces are covered by SemVer and which are explicitly not. It exists because "1.0" is a commitment to stability, and an undocumented public surface invites incompatible client assumptions we would then be pressured to keep.
Status: finalized for the 1.0 cut. The HTTP/SSE API is part of the stable surface — served under
/api/v1with a uniform response envelope and conventional HTTP status codes. Seeapi-reference.md.
What SemVer covers (the public, stable surface)
A MAJOR bump is required to break any of these after 1.0:
- The CLI. Command names, documented flags, and their behavior for
codeman <command>(published to npm asaicodeman; invoked ascodeman). This is the package's actual public entry point (bin).- The package is published to npm as
aicodemanand installs both theaicodemanandcodemancommands (binaliases);codemanis the canonical command used throughout the docs. Renaming either after 1.0 is a breaking change.
- The package is published to npm as
- The published
xterm-zerolag-inputlibrary, but on its own version line — it is versioned and released independently of the Codeman app. Its 1.0 status is a separate decision; the Codeman app reaching 1.0 does not implyxterm-zerolag-inputis 1.0. - Documented environment variables that configure deployment:
CODEMAN_PASSWORD,CODEMAN_USERNAME,CODEMAN_HOST,CODEMAN_PORT,CODEMAN_INSTANCE,CODEMAN_ALLOWED_HOSTS,CODEMAN_DATA_DIR,CODEMAN_TMUX_SOCKET, and the--host/--port/--httpsCLI flags. Removing or changing the meaning of one of these is breaking. - The HTTP API and SSE event channel, served under
/api/v1with the uniform{success:true,data}/{success:false,error,errorCode}envelope and conventional HTTP status codes. Endpoint paths, the response envelope, errorerrorCodevalues, and SSE event names are stable — seeapi-reference.md. Additive changes (new endpoints, new optional fields, new error codes, new SSE events) are non-breaking; breaking changes ship under a new prefix (/api/v2). The unversioned/api/...alias is kept working for the bundled UI.
What SemVer does NOT cover (internal surfaces — may change in any release)
These may change in a MINOR (or even PATCH) release without a MAJOR bump:
- The
~/.codeman/state file formats (state.json,settings.json,mux-sessions.json, etc.). We make a best-effort to migrate existing data forward (and have done so across renames), but the on-disk schema is not a stable contract — do not write tooling that depends on its exact shape. - Internal TypeScript modules. The npm package is CLI-only;
importing it programmatically is not supported (there is no stable library entry point). - Experimental / opt-in features, regardless of the app's version:
Gesture Control (beta), Agent Teams
(
CLAUDE_CODE_EXPERIMENTAL_AGENT_TEAMS=1), and anything labeled experimental in the UI or docs. These may change or be removed at any time.
Deprecation policy
When we need to change a covered surface:
- Prefer additive changes (new flag/env var/command) over breaking ones.
- A covered surface slated for removal is deprecated first — it keeps working
for at least one MINOR release with a runtime warning and a
CHANGELOG.mdnote pointing to the replacement — then removed in the next MAJOR. - Back-compat migration shims (e.g. the historical Claudeman→Codeman data/socket migration) are kept until a MAJOR boundary, then may be dropped.
Pre-1.0 (0.x) caveat
Until 1.0 ships, any release may contain breaking changes per SemVer's 0.x
allowance. The commitments above take effect at 1.0.0.
See also
CLAUDE.md— the COM release workflow (changesets, version bump, deploy).github/SECURITY.md— security reporting and the supported-version policydocs/security-architecture.md— the full trust model