Maintainers

Maintainers

SpecRoute is maintained by Enovatr Labs as an open-source contribution to the agentic-engineering ecosystem.

Full governance: MAINTAINERS.md.

Current maintainers

Name	Role	GitHub	Contact
Chika Ihejimba	Lead maintainer / project author	@cihejimba	chika@enovatr.com

How to reach us

You want to ...	Contact
Report a security vulnerability	security@enovatr.com — see Security
Discuss a contribution before opening a PR	Open a GitHub issue or chika@enovatr.com
Ask about commercial use, partnerships, or extended support	chika@enovatr.com
Report a bug or propose a feature	GitHub issues
Contribute	See Contributing

For non-security inquiries, prefer GitHub issues — they're public, searchable, and let the community participate.

Sponsoring organization

Enovatr Labs sponsors SpecRoute as part of its work on agentic engineering tooling. The framework is intentionally vendor-neutral and not tied to any Enovatr product — it's a community-curated framework that Enovatr also uses internally.

Becoming a maintainer

We grow the maintainer team based on demonstrated contribution and judgment. Typical path:

1. Contribute consistently. PRs, issue triage, doc improvements, worked examples, vendor-integration patterns. Quality and responsiveness matter more than volume.
2. Demonstrate judgment. Comment thoughtfully on others' PRs and issues; help shape architectural decisions; respect the project's hard constraints (vendor neutrality, sanitization, two-tier docs, frontmatter contracts).
3. Take ownership of an area. A new vendor's runtime template, a workflow, a doc category — a sustained area where you become the go-to reviewer.
4. Receive an invitation. Existing maintainers nominate; consensus among current maintainers confirms.

There's no fixed contribution count. We optimize for trust, not throughput.

Decision-making

For most decisions: lazy consensus. A maintainer proposes; if no maintainer objects within a reasonable window, the change lands.

For architectural decisions: an ADR (template). Once accepted, the ADR is immutable; superseding requires a new ADR.

For breaking changes to the framework's contracts (vendor matrix, frontmatter, spec-driven flow): explicit review and sign-off from the lead maintainer.

What this project is not

• A SaaS or hosted service. SpecRoute is markdown content. We don't run anything.
• A vendor-specific framework. Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Kiro, Cursor, and Windsurf are parallel execution environments. The Vendor Matrix is the contract.
• A standards body. We propose patterns we've found useful; consumers fork what they need and ignore the rest.

Acknowledgments

SpecRoute generalizes patterns from internal Enovatr Labs codebases into a public framework. Specific design choices (the spec triplet, the phased master-prompt pattern, the per-vendor runtime layouts) draw on production usage across multiple projects. Sanitized for public release.

The agentic-engineering ecosystem moves quickly. We watch the upstream conventions of the agent CLIs we support and update SpecRoute in lock-step when they evolve.

See also

• Roadmap — current trajectory
• Contributing — contributor workflow
• Code of Conduct — community standards