Manifest spec

Not shipped yet

The manifest spec and the marketplace are not part of this release. This page exists so the URL is stable and so you know what the word means when you see it elsewhere in these docs.

Nothing here is implemented. Do not build against it yet.

What a manifest will be

A manifest is how a marketplace module declares itself to Adminium: the tables it needs, the pages it contributes, the roles it defines, and the settings it exposes. Adminium validates it, installs it, and the module’s pages appear in the sidebar.

The format is JSON, validated by a published JSON Schema, carrying an integer manifestVersion — the same versioning discipline as the schema IR, for the same reason: a document that declares a version keeps working when the format grows.

Why it is not here yet

The manifest spec is frozen when the marketplace ships, not before. Freezing a contract that nothing has implemented against produces a contract that is wrong in ways nobody has discovered.

What exists today

If you want to move an Adminium configuration between instances now, that is export-zip — a different thing, doing a different job: Export & restore.

If you want the schema format Adminium’s import pipeline speaks today, that is the IR, and it is real, published, and versioned: The JSON IR.