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Public review open: 2026-10-22 – 2026-11-21 (JST). How to comment (REVIEW.md) · Tracking issue

SkillPact · Working draft 0.8

About this specification

On this page
  1. Status
  2. Governance and decision process
  3. Security reports
  4. Intellectual property
  5. Trademarks and badges
  6. Citation
  7. Roadmap
  8. Media type and file naming
  9. Accessibility of this site
  10. Acknowledgements
  11. Documentation checklist

Status, governance, legal and practical information. See also the specification, design rationale and why SkillPact.

Status#

Draft 0.8 (2026-10-22), editor's draft, not stable. The English specification is normative; the Japanese one is a translation. No version 1.0 exists yet; the public review dates are not set.

Governance and decision process#

The editor is shogo kajiyama (SEVENTHWELL). Changes follow the SkillPact Proposal process in GOVERNANCE.md: an issue, at least 7 days of discussion, a pull request that updates spec, schema, conformance suite and both implementations together, and a written decision. How to contribute: CONTRIBUTING.md. Conduct: CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md.

Security reports#

Report vulnerabilities privately to kajiyama@seventh-well.com or through GitHub private vulnerability reporting. See SECURITY.md.

Intellectual property#

  • Specification text: CC BY 4.0. Schemas, conformance suite and implementations: Apache-2.0, which includes a patent license from each contributor for their contributions.
  • SEVENTHWELL and Shogo Kajiyama give a royalty-free patent non-assertion covenant for implementations of the specification, with defensive termination (modelled on the Microsoft Open Specification Promise and OWFa 1.0). See IPR.md.

Trademarks and badges#

"SEVENTHWELL" is the name of the publisher. "SkillPact" may be used to describe implementations and contracts that follow the specification. Show an L1/L2/L3 badge only for the level your CI or skillpact conformance actually reports, and do not suggest endorsement by SEVENTHWELL. See TRADEMARKS.md.

Citation#

Use CITATION.cff: "SkillPact Specification, draft 0.8, SEVENTHWELL, 2026."

Roadmap#

See ROADMAP.md. Next: public review, then 1.0 with stable schema URLs and published packages.

Media type and file naming#

The file is always skill.contract.json. It is served as application/json; no specific media type is registered; IANA registration is to be considered after 1.0 (spec Appendix D).

Accessibility of this site#

Pages use semantic HTML with a language attribute, one main heading, table headers, visible focus and sufficient colour contrast; the checker works with the keyboard. Report problems as GitHub issues. See ACCESSIBILITY.md.

Acknowledgements#

See ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.md.

Documentation checklist#

Every item expected of a specification and where it lives: STANDARDS_CHECKLIST.md.

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