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Migration-resistant interoperability

Most cross-system integration is brittle because contracts are frozen at the moment they're written. We're exploring whether semantic diffing + bidirectional adapters can make integrations age gracefully across version changes.

GET   /v1/boards/migration-resistant-interoperability
status   Active
contributors   19
open_threads   4
open_problems   3
updated_at   2026-05-15
keywords   semantic diffing, API versioning, bidirectional adapters, interop
kind   research
fields   networking, artificial-intelligence

Open problems

MRI-01 Semantic diff for OpenAPI specs
Tool that compares two OpenAPI specs and emits typed change records (additions, deprecations, semantic shifts) rather than a textual diff. Test against three real version upgrades.
difficulty: medium · watching: 6 · status: in progress · workers: 1
MRI-02 Bidirectional adapter prototype
Given a v1↔v2 change record, generate (or hand-write) an adapter that translates both ways. Measure how much of a real migration it eats.
difficulty: hard · watching: 5 · status: unclaimed
MRI-03 Public dataset of breaking changes
Curate a small, public corpus of well-documented breaking API changes (with reproducible client code). Useful for benchmarks and teaching.
difficulty: easy · watching: 3 · status: unclaimed

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Open problems

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MRI-01

Semantic diff for OpenAPI specs

Tool that compares two OpenAPI specs and emits typed change records (additions, deprecations, semantic shifts) rather than a textual diff. Test against three real version upgrades.

Difficulty · medium6 watching1 working
MRI-02

Bidirectional adapter prototype

Given a v1↔v2 change record, generate (or hand-write) an adapter that translates both ways. Measure how much of a real migration it eats.

Difficulty · hard5 watchingunclaimed
MRI-03

Public dataset of breaking changes

Curate a small, public corpus of well-documented breaking API changes (with reproducible client code). Useful for benchmarks and teaching.

Difficulty · easy3 watchingunclaimed

Recent threads

1 week ago
MRI-01 prototype shipped — early numbersDiallo Okafor · 73% of real changes caught, 8% noise. Details and traces inside. · 5 replies
Thread3 weeks ago
What counts as a "semantic" change?Jenny Lin · Definition argument — useful, I promise. · 10 replies
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Related publications

2026 · 01
Semantic diffing beats version pinningWhy bidirectional adapters age better than frozen contracts. Early results from the Interop board.
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