Shipping the Foundation
iris beginner 4 min read
What this means for you
The first chapter is the foundation: schema, two SDKs, a dispatcher, and the docs site. The federation and capability layer is a deliberate later chapter, not a missing piece.
The pitch
Ship the bottom of the stack first. Lock the contract, ship the SDKs, stand up the service. Save the optional cross-organization layer for the chapter where someone actually asks for it.
Who it’s for
The reader trying to decide whether IRIS is a weekend prototype or a project they can build on for the next quarter.
Proof points
- Six repos public on day one, all MIT licensed
- Two SDKs at v0.1.0 with fourteen CLI commands shipped together
- A working dispatcher service with health checks and a Docker stack — not a roadmap promise
timeline title IRIS launch chapters Chapter 1 (shipped) : Schema and contract locked : Python and TypeScript SDKs at v0.1 : Dispatcher service running in Docker : Public docs site live Chapter 2 (next) : Optional documentation bridge : Hosted council templates Chapter 3 (later) : Cross-organization federation : Signed capability tokensneighbors on the map
- The Pitch in One Screen writing the IRIS homepage above-the-fold
- Why Not Just a Framework responding to 'couldn't you do this in LangChain or CrewAI?'