diff --git a/docs/qapi-code-gen.txt b/docs/qapi-code-gen.txt
index f9fa6f3..ceb9a78 100644
--- a/docs/qapi-code-gen.txt
+++ b/docs/qapi-code-gen.txt
@@ -514,6 +514,17 @@
 For this purpose, QMP provides introspection via command
 query-qmp-schema.  QGA currently doesn't support introspection.
 
+While Client JSON Protocol wire compatibility should be maintained
+between qemu versions, we cannot make the same guarantees for
+introspection stability.  For example, one version of qemu may provide
+a non-variant optional member of a struct, and a later version rework
+the member to instead be non-optional and associated with a variant.
+Likewise, one version of qemu may list a member with open-ended type
+'str', and a later version could convert it to a finite set of strings
+via an enum type; or a member may be converted from a specific type to
+an alternate that represents a choice between the original type and
+something else.
+
 query-qmp-schema returns a JSON array of SchemaInfo objects.  These
 objects together describe the wire ABI, as defined in the QAPI schema.
 There is no specified order to the SchemaInfo objects returned; a
diff --git a/qapi/introspect.json b/qapi/introspect.json
index e7c4c3e..9e9369e 100644
--- a/qapi/introspect.json
+++ b/qapi/introspect.json
@@ -22,6 +22,15 @@
 # what's there), not interface specification.  The specification is in
 # the QAPI schema.
 #
+# Furthermore, while we strive to keep the QMP wire format
+# backwards-compatible across qemu versions, the introspection output
+# is not guaranteed to have the same stability.  For example, one
+# version of qemu may list an object member as an optional
+# non-variant, while another lists the same member only through the
+# object's variants; or the type of a member may change from a generic
+# string into a specific enum or from one specific type into an
+# alternate that includes the original type alongside something else.
+#
 # Returns: array of @SchemaInfo, where each element describes an
 # entity in the ABI: command, event, type, ...
 #