Untracking the ops docs broke every reference to them. Repoints or removes those references across README, architecture, ROADMAP, the archive index, lifecycle TESTING, the hardening plan, and the security docs — pointing at the issue tracker where a live task list was meant, and dropping the entry entirely where it only existed to link an internal file. Also fixes two pre-existing broken links found by validating every relative link in the tracked docs: - README linked docs/OPEN_SOURCE_READINESS.md, which never existed (underscores vs hyphens). - reticulum-daemon/README.md linked a local Claude session plan at ../../.claude/plans/enchanted-strolling-rocket.md — outside the repo, and a path that would have shipped publicly pointing at nothing. All relative links in tracked markdown now resolve: 0 broken. audit-secrets.sh still 5/5. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Archipelago Roadmap
Last updated: 2026-07-08. This is the public-facing summary. The live, open engineering work is tracked in the public issue tracker.
North star
A world-class, developer-ready app platform: every app manifest-driven, manifests distributed via a signed registry, and third-party developers publishing through an external/decentralized marketplace — all rootless, secure, robust, and 100%-uptime-capable.
Five pillars every app must satisfy: Quadlet-everywhere · level-triggered reconciler · lifecycle-bulletproof (full test matrix, repeatedly green) · data-driven (no host changes, no per-app binary code) · rootless + security-first.
✅ Shipped
- Single-node production gate GREEN (2026-06-23) — the full destructive lifecycle matrix (install / UI / stop / start / restart / reinstall / reboot-survive / backend-restart-survive / uninstall) passed 5 consecutive times with zero failures on real hardware. This was the first exit criterion.
- Manifest-driven app platform — 50+ apps as declarative manifests; all multi-container stacks (BTCPay, Mempool, Immich, NetBird, IndeeHub) install through the orchestrator; generated-secrets system replaces per-app secret code.
- Rust orchestrator + level-triggered reconciler — the bash-script era is retired; drift self-heals on a 30-second loop.
- Registry-distributed manifests — the signed catalog embeds full manifests per app; nodes verify against the pinned release-root key and overlay catalog manifests over disk files (catalog wins).
- Release signing ceremony (2026-07-02) — release-root Ed25519 key pinned in the binary; OTA release manifests and the app catalog are signed; auto-apply refuses unsigned manifests.
- 1.8.0 hardening batches — supply-chain signature verification, deepened post-OTA health checks, async-executor and secret-handling fixes, browser origin checks, dist shrink.
- Reticulum third mesh transport — RNS/LXMF over real LoRa hardware (RNode), interop verified against Sideband; joins Meshtastic and MeshCore behind one chat UI with X3DH + double-ratchet E2E, attachments, and mesh AI.
- Bitcoin multi-version — Core and Knots with per-app version pinning and safe switching (fleet rollout pending below).
- Decentralized marketplace backend — Nostr NIP-78 discovery, DID-signed manifests, federation-weighted trust scoring, Lightning purchase invoices.
- Quadlet migration validated — all backends run as
user.sliceQuadlet services on the canary node (default flip pending below). - Public demo — multi-visitor sandbox deployed.
🔄 In progress
- Multinode pass — run the same production gate across the whole test
fleet, plus cross-node federation/mesh suites
(
multinode-testing-plan.md). This is the current exit criterion. - Quadlet default flip — flip the validated Quadlet path from opt-in to default fleet-wide; eliminates the last container-flapping root cause.
- Container-flapping elimination — reconciler churn and failed-unit self-healing gaps observed on live nodes.
- Reticulum tail — ship the daemon binary inside the release tarball; final fleet redeploys.
⏳ Release-blocking for 1.8.0
Tracked in detail in 1.8.0-RELEASE-HARDENING-PLAN.md:
- OTA upgrade-from-previous-version soak on real hardware — the top untested release risk.
- ISO/image hardening — per-device TLS/SSH keys on first boot, remove default credentials and SSH password auth, signed + checksummed ISO, registries over HTTPS, unattended-upgrades and firewall defaults.
- Bitcoin multi-version fleet OTA — code done; rollout timing is a deliberate hold.
- Version bump to
1.8.0-alpha+ tag once the pre-tag items close.
🔭 Planned (post-1.8.0)
- Developer CLI —
archy app validate / render / install / test; the gate for opening third-party app publishing. - External marketplace maturation — publishing tooling, trust UX, and
reputation surfaces on top of the shipped backend
(
marketplace-protocol.md). - DHT/P2P distribution — releases and app images over iroh-based swarm
(
dht-distribution-design.md; feature-gated skeleton exists). - P2P encrypted voice/video over Tor between federated nodes.
- Dual ecash — Fedimint + Cashu phases 2–6, networking-sats
(
dual-ecash-design.md). - Paid streaming — streaming ecash for content
(
phase4-streaming-ecash-plan.md). - Hardware signer support (
hardware-signer-design.md). - Code health — split god-modules, remove dead crates, route all podman/systemctl calls through the wrapper.
Release pipeline
Feature Testing (internal) → User Testing (controlled hardware) → Beta Live (public).