These documents define Rootform's public integration surface independently of private implementation plans.
rootform-language.md: RF source model, RF Vocabulary, Dialects, Policies;form.md: format-1 state, plan, and comparison Forms, stages, comparisons, and drift;policy-result.md: policy evaluation and linking result;rootform-lock.md: non-embedded selections and exclusions/replacements;dialect-distribution.md: third-party Dialect packages and explicit sources; supplied Dialects embedded in the release set;policy-pack-distribution.md: OCI Policy Pack artifacts, explicit pack sources, derived dependencies, and pack lifecycle ownership;rootform-oci-core-profile.md: minimal portable registry capabilities;presentation-manifest.md: resource-native presentation identities;binary-handoff.md: exact producer-to-distribution artifact boundary and Rootform release set;release-manifest.md: binary release metadata and license boundary.
reference/ holds generated CLI and Action metadata and verification evidence.
Contracts use format versions carried by their serialized documents. A breaking wire change requires a new format version and migration notes. Product version and format version are separate.