# Deferred Scope

This document owns intentionally excluded features, not a committed delivery plan.
The [architecture policy](../policy/architecture.md) governs changes to these
boundaries. Implemented behavior belongs in the [configuration contract](../config.md)
and consumer adoption in the [consumer guide](../consumers/README.md).

## Explicit non-goals and deferred scope

General environment-variable configuration overlays are not supported. Typed secret
references and explicit directory bootstrap are the environment convention. Literal
credential configuration and implicit secret-directory discovery are unsupported.

The initial release deliberately excludes:

- automatic `conf.d` discovery;
- remote imports, arbitrary providers, and additional configuration formats;
- custom merge strategies, sequence merging, reset operators, and overlay inheritance;
- parser-specific or custom structural-decoding extension APIs;
- generic dynamic-subtree conversion and module-registry APIs;
- automatic schema migrations;
- hot reload, runtime resource replacement, and remote resource validation;
- a bundled CLI framework or application commands; and
- configuration diffs and fingerprints.

Applications may build their own validate, effective-value, source, bootstrap, and
explanation commands around the library. Broadening these boundaries requires
concrete consumer evidence, compatibility review, and an explicit design change.