The PO9 Standard Roadmap

This is the roadmap for the standard — the direction of the .po9-skin format itself, not a changelog of app features. If your organization is adopting PO9, this is what you’re really betting on: where the format goes over the next few years, and the promise that it gets there without breaking what you build today.

1. Current — v1 Stable

   The stable core: manifest, theme tokens, asset rules, and packaging. Everything you need to build, validate, and ship a skin today.

2. Next — v1.1 Additive

   Animation tokens (animation.*). Purely additive — every v1 skin stays valid, no migration required.

3. Later — v2 Major

   Plugin extension points — controlled surfaces for extending a skin beyond static tokens. A major version, so it ships a migrator and keeps the compatibility promise.

4. Future Exploring

   Enterprise policy — signed skins and org-level allowlists, so companies can govern exactly which skins run. See Enterprise.

Note

This is a statement of direction, not a delivery commitment. Dates are intentionally omitted — the value is knowing where the standard is going, and that it stays backward-compatible along the way. The versioning rules behind this are in Specification → Versioning.