Overview
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Use this section to determine whether the Helium Initial MVP direction fits your application before you depend on framework artifacts or plan an adoption project.
Important
Helium is under active development. No supported consumer release or installable project-template package is currently available. The Overview documents the accepted architecture, implemented foundations, target Initial MVP, and current limitations.
Start here
- What is Helium? — Understand the product direction and current availability.
- Supported application model — Review the one adoption and deployment model targeted by the Initial MVP.
- Supported versions — Check the accepted runtime and database compatibility baseline.
Evaluate the product direction
- Why use Helium?
- Helium and
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- Product scope and current limitations
Current implementation status
The framework implementation plan recorded the following workstream state on July 30, 2026:
| Area | Status |
|---|---|
| Architecture and engineering foundation | Complete |
| Public contracts and module composition | Complete |
| Persistence, migrations, and durable processing | Complete |
| Identity and onboarding | Complete |
| Organizations, context, and authorization | In progress |
| Billing, subscription state, and entitlements | Not started |
| Transactional email and lifecycle reactions | Not started |
| Reference UI, settings, and project template | Not started |
| Configuration, observability, security, and deployment | Not started |
| Packaging, releases, compatibility, and upgrades | Not started |
This table reports engineering progress. It is not a release-support declaration. A capability is not available to consumers merely because an internal workstream is complete.
Next steps
Review the product scope and current limitations. Then check Get started for the prerequisites that can be prepared before the first supported template release.