CALM 2026 Roadmap

[markscott-ms]

Roadmap Proposal

Linked issues are representative and may not represent all work considered within a theme.

Schema

• Architecture Evolution target February work on the release-1.2-revised branch
  • Managing Architecture Evolution in CALM #1409
  • CALM Schema change - architecture timelines #1762
• Flow definitions - empty and external
  • Support flow-first modelling before logical architecture #1875
  • Allow flows array to be a reference to a document referencing a flow #1876
• Decorators - cross cutting architectural information
  • Add decorators for cross-cutting architecture information #1864
• Protocol - remove property from relationship, encouraging use in interfaces
  • Remove protocol as an optional property on all relationships #1437
• Complete removal of old drafts
  • Clean up CALM schema project #1240
• Architecture identification
  • Propose that metadata object property calm is reserved to CALM. #1477
  • Programmatic Derivation of CALM File Type #490
• Deployments
  • CALM Deployments Initial Proposal #1908
• Control evidencing
  • Inline control-config in evidence definition #1411 and other revision or revisiting of evidence definition as part of CALM schema
• Data domain
  • Add Field-Level Data Documentation and Movement Tracking to CALM #1371

Website and Documentation

• Integrate Advent of CALM 2025 content into tutorials and how-tos target February
  • Integrate Advent of CALM content into core documentation #2017
• Search functionality target January
  • Add search functionality to CALM documentation portal #2019
• More examples of CALM architectures, and standards
  • Add examples to CALM documentation #499

CLI and VSCode Extension

• generate/validate
  • generate with options from command line target March
    • Add CLI option for using calm generate with pre-defined options #1951
  • ability to migrate from pattern v1 to pattern v2 with same options applied
• docify/template
  • support Timelines target February
  • themes
    • block-architecture widget theming in Docify and VSCode extension #2059
• server
  • break server out into a separate package and improve default security target February
    • CALM Server #2051
  • validate with patterns supplied
    • CALM CLI Server Mode additional validation #2099
• AI
  • support AI tools other than Github Copilot target February
    • Enable Claude Code as an AI Assistant for calm-cli #2038
    • Feature Request: Enhance calm-ai to support AWS Kiro #2003
• CalmHub integration
  • get/publish/promote to CalmHub
• vscode extension
  • expose CLI commands into extension and integrate output, e.g. Problems panel target March
  • explore by hierarchical structure rather than node type?

CalmHub

• Authentication and Entitlements - basic and enterprise ready
  • CalmHub - Authentication and Authorisation #2103
• Artifact addressing

[LeighFinegold]

For Data domain, how much does that overlap with data lineage tracing as per #1371? I believe @arhy and @ojeb2 were due to put a proposal which had soft links to other schemas like https://ekgf.github.io/dprod/

[karlmoll]

TraderX Roadmap with CALM demo & evidencing (CC @DovOps)

https://traderx.finos.org/docs/roadmap