Stability and releases

Labcoat is early-stage software for local Alkanes development. Interfaces may change before 1.0; mainnet deployment controls are not production-ready.

Documentation channel

The public website documents the current main branch and may be ahead of the latest release. The reference bundled with an installed executable is authoritative for that version:

labcoat docs --llm
labcoat --version
labcoat --help

This single channel notice replaces release-specific compatibility banners. Release notes and the changelog describe changes between versions.

One product version

A cli-vX.Y.Z release is one tested compatibility unit containing:

• native CLI executables and checksums;
• the exact managed Qubitcoin and indexer runtime;
• the matching labcoat-test source tag used by generated projects.

Labcoat does not independently update the runtime. An installed CLI requests only the manifest for its own release tag and uses a versioned local cache after the first verified download. Updating the CLI is the explicit runtime upgrade.

Compatibility expectations

Surface	Pre-1.0 expectation
CLI commands and flags	May change between minor releases; release notes call out breaking changes.
JSON envelopes	Use versioned labcoat/v1/* schemas; consumers should handle typed errors and unknown additive fields.
MCP tools	Generated from the installed CLI capability set; pin Labcoat in automation.
Runtime	Exactly tied to the CLI release; never selected from an independent latest channel.
labcoat-test	Generated projects pin the same immutable cli-vX.Y.Z Git tag.
Web documentation	Tracks main; it may describe unreleased changes.
Project files	Commit Cargo.lock, labcoat.toml, and relevant labcoat.lock state.

Supported scope

Current:

• CLI on macOS and Linux, arm64 and x86_64;
• Labcoat Network runtime on macOS arm64 and Linux x86_64;
• Rust contract scaffolding, native Wasm tests, and package builds;
• local wallets, deployment, calls, simulation, traces, JSON, and MCP.

Planned, not available:

• production-ready mainnet deployment controls;
• durable production runtime state and hosted operation;
• team access controls.

Unsupported:

• Windows;
• Labcoat Network runtime on macOS x86_64 or Linux arm64;
• treating Labcoat Network or its wallet defaults as a production security boundary;
• assuming website examples match an older unpinned executable.

See Installation for version pinning and the security policy for runtime and wallet threat boundaries.