# Alpha stability and intentional omissions The v0.1 API is an alpha contract. Pin an exact version and expect incompatible changes between alpha releases. The project intentionally does not include: - arbitrary indexing, slicing, concatenation, or positional-axis APIs; - implicit contractions such as matrix `@`; - posterior inference, conditioning, or probabilistic-programming effects; - mutable RNG sessions or global generator state; - autodiff, JIT compilation, or graph optimization; - serialization or a stable custom-node format; - custom distributions or reductions; or - alternate numeric backends. These omissions preserve a small algebra whose stochastic semantics are visible locally in source code. They may be revisited only when a concrete use case can retain that property.