Delivery Provider Contract v1

Contract

Protocol identity:

baseharbor.delivery/v1

Delivery is independent from Runtime and Capability Providers.

runtime != capability != delivery

Modes

direct

BaseHarbor owns reconciliation.

• owner: baseharbor
• provider: direct

delegated

An external reconciler owns reconciliation.

• owner: external
• provider: implementation identifier such as a future Argo CD or Flux provider

Exactly one reconciliation owner is valid for a managed resource set.

Placement

Where applicable Delivery uses the same placement vocabulary as other provider axes:

• application
• shared
• external

Hard invariants

• Delivery Provider products never enter portable Application capability intent.
• Runtime Provider does not decide direct/delegated ownership.
• Capability Provider does not decide direct/delegated ownership.
• direct and delegated ownership cannot be active simultaneously for the same managed resource set.
• provider-native GitOps resources remain below the Delivery Provider boundary.
• selection provenance and immutable revision may be recorded without changing portable Application Intent.

Argo CD and Flux are possible implementations, not contract semantics.