contract-lab
Internal experiment exploring what a contract package could look like on top of the still-evolving latex-lab code.
The contract-lab package is currently just an internal experiment. The
reason for this experiment is that, starting in 2026, LaTeX works very
differently when the \DocumentMetadata command (placed before
\documentclass) is set. An increasing number of parts of the LaTeX
core for class and package authors is then replaced by the
still-under-development latex-lab. The current version may already
differ significantly from the current developer version latex-lab-dev. As long as the whole thing on the LaTeX core side is
not at least somewhat stable, it seems to make little sense to make the
experiment itself available on CTAN.
Whether this will ultimately result in a package with functionality similar to
contract, something completely different, or even nothing at
all, is also impossible to say at this point. Currently the project is hosted
privately at
Codeberg. Currently, only
privileged users involved in the development have access permission.