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Future Architecture

Conceptual roadmap

This page describes future architecture ideas. It does not change the current Runtime architecture or the current public crate catalog.

Future AppCore work follows the same rule as the current Runtime: a crate exists only when it has a clear owner, consumers, dependency boundary, tests, publication path and documentation.

Conceptual Flows​

Deterministic automation and adaptive agents remain separate. Automation is Event -> Condition -> Action -> Command. Agents handle goals, planning, tools, memory and action proposals through AI and capabilities.

Training, if supported, should be explicit:

Media and devices are also boundaries, not hidden dependencies:

Plugins compose extension points:

Profiles​

The same future components can serve different runtime shapes:

  • desktop application;
  • AI desktop application;
  • distributed backend;
  • edge or IoT installation;
  • media application;
  • agent platform;
  • visual development tool.

Non-Goals​

AppCore does not intend to become:

  • an operating system;
  • a universal database;
  • a browser engine;
  • a full machine-learning framework;
  • a reinvented graphics engine;
  • a custom cryptography stack;
  • a cloud provider;
  • a monolith.

Principles​

  • Prefer the Rust standard library or internal crates before adding external dependencies.
  • Keep local-first behavior possible.
  • Use distributed operation only when the deployment needs it.
  • Route extension through capabilities and explicit providers.
  • Keep heavy features opt-in.
  • Do not let implementation details leak into the central API.
  • Require an owner, consumers, DAG position, tests, publication path and docs before creating a crate.

Maturity​

Research means the boundary is still being investigated. Planned means the boundary is useful enough to reserve. In Design means the public shape is being worked out. Alpha, Beta and RC indicate increasing implementation and release confidence. Stable means the crate is published with its own SemVer contract.

Each crate may keep independent SemVer. Promotion is manual and should preserve URLs where possible.