Roadmap

DCL is a language project with a stable v1.0 core and an evolving tooling ecosystem. This roadmap keeps language status separate from editor, integration, and projection work.

Current Version

DCL v1.0

Status: Stable language core

Compiler: dcl 1.0

DCL v1.0 defines the stable core language for describing capabilities, intents, outcomes, rules, effects, events, lifecycles, actors, policies, observations, and contexts.

Implemented

• Compiler CLI for version, check, and IR output.
• Contexts and cross-context dependencies.
• Policies and policy attachments.
• Local and supervising lifecycles.
• Effects, events, observations, rules, and outcome causation.
• Static documentation website.
• Browser playground and VS Code extension with language-server-backed navigation.
• Local-first stdio MCP server for compiler-backed AI client analysis.

Tooling Roadmap

• MCP adoption work now focuses on documentation, packaging, semantic summaries, and future compiler-backed analysis tools.
• Runtime projections, documentation generation, and diagram generation remain tooling work around the stable language core.
• Editor, playground, and language-server features will continue to improve without changing the v1.0 stability status.

Use Cases

• Detailed use cases will be added over time.
• An event-driven architecture use case is planned.
• AI and LLM evaluation may be explored after v1.0.