Impact Manifest

Impact Manifest is an open specification for a machine-readable change-safety assertion over an infrastructure plan. terraform show -json says what a change does; an Impact Manifest says whether it is safe, and, critically, records what could not be determined, so an unknown can never be silently read as safe. It is designed to be produced by any tool, for any cloud; no single implementation owns it.

Schema

Published versions are immutable: once a version is here, its bytes never change, and every version stays up permanently. Manifests carry an exact version in $id and consumers should pin one; latest is a browsing convenience only.

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