# Project State

> The single live "where are we right now" file. Read this FIRST at the start of any session that touches this repo - don't infer phase or sprint from conversation history. Updated LAST by whichever agent completes the current step, as documented in `AGENTS.md` under "Automated State-Driven Handoff."

**Phase:** 1 - Backlog refinement (next sprint cycle)
**Leading agent:** `product-owner`
**Process file:** `process/01_backlog_refinement.md`

**Sprint:** 4 closed. Sprint 5 not yet planned.
**Sprint goal (Sprint 4, closed):** Complete the CSV Integration and Field Mapping epic by collapsing blank optional address lines, and deliver the first slice of text/field rotation (numeric angle entry, persistence, and correct rendering around the element's bounding-box center). Met in full.
**Current sprint backlog:** none active — see `backlog/sprints/sprint-4.md` (closed) and `backlog/sprints/sprint-4-retrospective.md`.

**Next action:** Sprint 4 retrospective complete (`backlog/sprints/sprint-4-retrospective.md`) — full follow-through on all 4 Sprint 3 retro actions confirmed (the third clean full-follow-through sprint in a row), including a structural resolution of the one open process watch item (product-owner review independence — now marked Resolved in `logs/process_improvement_log.md`, not carried forward). Two Sprint 5 action items logged: continue empirical vendor/spec verification and live actual-built-artifact verification (both standing expectations, no process change); apply the same code-inspection-backed sizing rigor to epic 08 when it's next refined. No kit edits made. Test suite at 288/288. Two epics now fully Done (Template Designer GUI Foundation; CSV Integration and Field Mapping). Ready-but-uncommitted backlog: "Harden production configuration delivery for CLI runtime settings" (epic 5, 2 pts). Unsized: the new "Composite Address Controls and Mixed-Content Text" epic (`backlog/epics/08_composite_address_controls.md`, 2 stories, requirements captured 2026-09-29 but not yet sized by dev-team). **This is a natural pause point — confirm with the user before starting Sprint 5 backlog refinement/planning.** Likely next refinement step: size epic 08's two stories with dev-team before Sprint 5 can be planned around them.

## Phase reference

| # | Phase | Leading agent | Process file |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | Project onboarding | `product-owner` + `scrum-master` | `process/00_project_onboarding.md` |
| 1 | Backlog refinement | `product-owner` (+ `dev-team` sizing) | `process/01_backlog_refinement.md` |
| 2 | Sprint planning | `scrum-master` facilitates | `process/02_sprint_planning.md` |
| 3 | Sprint execution | `dev-team` (+ `scrum-master` daily scrum) | `process/03_sprint_execution.md` |
| 4 | Sprint review | `product-owner` leads | `process/04_sprint_review.md` |
| 5 | Sprint retrospective | `scrum-master` leads | `process/05_sprint_retrospective.md` |
| - | Technical debt (continuous) | `qa-tech-debt` | `process/06_technical_debt_management.md` |
| - | Portfolio/release planning (as needed) | `release-planner` | `AGENTS.md` - Multilevel Planning |
| - | Process self-improvement (end of every retro) | `scrum-master` | `process/07_process_improvement.md` |

After phase 5, loop back to phase 1 for the next sprint.

## History

| Date | Phase completed | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-04 | 0 - Project onboarding | Seeded project config, Definition of Done, initial epic backlog, and open questions from `Envelope_Report_Generator_Requirements.md`. |
| 2026-09-04 | 1 - Backlog refinement | Refined the top epics into sprint-ready stories, confirmed `C#/.NET 10` as the application stack, and reordered the backlog for the first text-only MVP slice. |
| 2026-09-04 | 2 - Sprint planning | Created Sprint 1 around a conservative desktop-to-CLI text-only rendering spine and recorded the committed backlog in `backlog/sprints/sprint-1.md`. |
| 2026-09-08 | 3 - Sprint execution (in progress) | Held Daily Scrum #1 and turned the sprint backlog into a dependency-ordered execution plan (5 batches) in `backlog/sprints/sprint-1.md`. Still in phase 3 — not a phase transition, just the day's checkpoint. |
| 2026-09-08 | 3 - Sprint execution | All 5 batches Done: CLI render contract, real Debenu text-only rendering, stdout progress events, WinForms desktop launch shell (user-confirmed as the UI framework), and live progress/completion display. 106 tests passing end-to-end. Sprint goal met with real verified runs against the 392-row sample CSV. |
| 2026-09-11 | 4 - Sprint review | `product-owner` verified all 5 stories against acceptance criteria (verdict: sprint goal met, with two tracked caveats — see `backlog/sprints/sprint-1.md`'s Sprint Review Outcome section). Updated `backlog/backlog.md` and epics 01/05/07 with Done notes and two new follow-up stories. Logged one process-improvement item (Watching) for the retrospective re: verifying GUI stories against the actual built artifact, not just an in-process harness — this is exactly what let the license-key bug (fixed same-day, see `logs/technical_debt_log.md`) through undetected. |
| 2026-09-11 | 5 - Sprint retrospective | `scrum-master` ran the retrospective (`backlog/sprints/sprint-1-retrospective.md`). Named two team-level strengths to keep (dependency-ordered batch swarming; "leave it better than you found it" plus honest gap self-reporting) and one lower-priority deferred idea (re-trigger the 100k-record benchmark when hot-path code changes). Decided the DoD/verification-gap item meets the bar for a proposed kit edit (single severe occurrence) and drafted specific wording for `templates/definition_of_done.md`. User approved the edit same-day; it was applied to the template (confirmed in `logs/process_improvement_log.md`, Status: Applied) — `state.md` briefly and incorrectly described this as still pending in a later note, corrected on 2026-09-14. Checked all four named anti-patterns; none found (one near-miss on thin GUI evidence named explicitly, addressed via the DoD edit and a Sprint 2 action item rather than swept aside). |
| 2026-09-14 | 2 - Sprint planning | `scrum-master` facilitated Sprint 2 planning with `product-owner` and `dev-team`. Committed 19 points: the overdue high-volume benchmark spike (pulled first per the retrospective action item) plus the full Template Designer GUI Foundation epic as one coherent vertical slice (canvas dimensions -> text placement -> properties panel -> save/reopen). CSV Integration stories deferred whole to Sprint 3 (3 of 4 hard-depend on this sprint's text-placement story); "Load CSV headers" kept as an explicit stretch item since it has no such dependency. Capacity treated as low-confidence off one data point (Sprint 1's 20 completed points). Recorded in `backlog/sprints/sprint-2.md`. |
| 2026-09-14 | 3 - Sprint execution | `dev-team` completed all 5 committed batches in dependency order (one interruption/resume mid-run due to a session rate limit, no work lost). Batch 1 (benchmark spike) found a material, previously-unknown risk: real-world throughput degrades from ~399 rec/s to ~15 rec/s and falling at ~100k-record scale, missing the 10-minute target by 5x-10x+, isolated to Debenu Quick PDF Library 10.13's document model — logged as a new Ready story plus a High-impact tech debt entry rather than fixed in-scope. Batches 2-5 delivered the full Template Designer GUI Foundation epic (canvas dimensions, text placement, properties panel, save/reopen), each verified live against the actual built `.exe` per the Sprint 1 retrospective's DoD edit. 195/195 tests passing. Stretch item not pulled (full committed slice prioritized over starting more scope). |
| 2026-09-18 | 4 - Sprint review | `product-owner` verified all 5 Sprint 2 stories against acceptance criteria (verdict: sprint goal met). Updated `backlog/backlog.md` and epics `02`/`05` with Done notes and verification detail; confirmed and endorsed dev-team's benchmark self-verification, framing it as a successful spike (story ACs met) surfacing a failing product metric (target missed), not a failed story. Recommended prioritizing the new throughput-investigation story at or near the top of Sprint 3. |
| 2026-09-18 | 5 - Sprint retrospective | `scrum-master` ran the retrospective (`backlog/sprints/sprint-2-retrospective.md`). Confirmed full follow-through on all four Sprint 1 retro action items (clean sprint, no drops) — notably, the Sprint 1-named "thin GUI evidence" weakness was concretely fixed this sprint via live actual-`.exe` verification on every GUI story. No kit-level edit proposed (one low-severity, single-occurrence daily-log arithmetic slip found; below the bar for a kit change, logged as a deferred watch item). Checked all four named anti-patterns plus the Sprint 1 status-theater near-miss; none found, with the status-theater near-miss specifically improved on rather than repeated. |
| 2026-09-21 | 2 - Sprint planning | `scrum-master` facilitated Sprint 3 planning with `dev-team` sizing support. Sized the previously-unsized "Investigate and address high-volume render throughput degradation" story at 8 points (bounded by its own time-boxed acceptance criteria plus a code-inspection-backed feasibility check, recorded in `backlog/epics/05_cli_rendering_engine_and_debenu_integration.md`). Committed 18 points (throughput story first, then the CSV Integration chain in backlog order) against a 19-20 point velocity range, deliberately leaving "Collapse blank optional address lines" and "Harden production configuration delivery" uncommitted for capacity discipline. Recorded in `backlog/sprints/sprint-3.md`. |
| 2026-09-21 to 2026-09-22 | 3 - Sprint execution | `dev-team` completed all 4 committed batches in dependency order across 2 daily-scrum entries. Batch 1 (throughput investigation, 8 points): confirmed the Debenu-internal-document-model hypothesis via a scaled-down real-DLL probe, implemented a batch+merge mitigation in `DebenuPdfRenderer`, and re-ran the full 100k-record benchmark to completion at 315s (~47.5% under the 10-minute target) — closing the High-impact debt item opened at Sprint 2 close, while honestly logging a new, narrower Medium-impact file-size risk at the 1,000,000-record ceiling rather than overclaiming full closure. Batches 2-4 (CSV Integration chain, 10 points): loaded CSV headers into the desktop app, bound a dynamic text field to a real column, and added rebind-without-repositioning — all live-verified against the real built `.exe`. 223/223 tests passing (up from 195). |
| 2026-09-22 | 4 - Sprint review | `product-owner` verified all 4 Sprint 3 stories against acceptance criteria (verdict: sprint goal met in full, no gaps). Updated `backlog/backlog.md`'s epic status table and added a "Sprint 3 Review outcome" section; added an independent confirmation note to the throughput story in `backlog/epics/05_cli_rendering_engine_and_debenu_integration.md`. Confirmed the new file-size technical debt item as open-but-non-blocking; unblocked "Collapse blank optional address lines" for Sprint 4. |
| 2026-09-22 | 5 - Sprint retrospective | `scrum-master` ran the retrospective (`backlog/sprints/sprint-3-retrospective.md`). Confirmed full follow-through on all four Sprint 2 retro action items, the second clean full-follow-through sprint in a row — notably, the Sprint 2-named test-count arithmetic watch item did not recur. Named a new team strength ("verify spec/code before building," caught a stale token-format assumption pre-implementation) and logged one low-severity, first-occurrence process watch item (product-owner's Sprint 3 review leaning on dev-team's pre-written verification notes for 3 of 4 stories) to `logs/process_improvement_log.md` rather than the sprint plan, per the kit/team-insight split — no kit edit made, revisit at Sprint 4 review. Checked all five named anti-patterns (including the Sprint 1 status-theater near-miss); none found. |
| 2026-09-22 | 1 - Backlog refinement | Mid-refinement, the user requested a new text/dynamic-field rotation capability. `product-owner` clarified scope directly with the user (angle range, UI interaction, pivot point), then wrote and readied two new dependent stories in `backlog/epics/02_template_designer_gui_foundation.md` (reopened from Done): "Set a rotation angle for text and dynamic field elements" (8 pts) and "Rotate elements by dragging a handle on the canvas" (5 pts). `dev-team` sized both with real code/vendor-API inspection (confirmed Debenu's `DrawRotatedText` rotates about an anchor point, not a center, so the center-pivot math is genuine new work). Both pass the Definition of Ready. |
| 2026-09-28 | 2 - Sprint planning | `scrum-master` facilitated Sprint 4 planning. Velocity range tightened to 18-20 points (Sprint 3 completed its exact 18-point commitment, zero scope change). Committed 18 points at the low end of the range rather than the ceiling: "Collapse blank optional address lines consistently" (5 pts, completes epic 3) plus the full rotation chain (8 + 5 pts, epic 2). "Harden production configuration delivery" (2 pts) deliberately left as an explicit stretch item. Recorded in `backlog/sprints/sprint-4.md`. |
| 2026-09-28 to 2026-09-29 | 3 - Sprint execution | `dev-team` completed all 3 committed batches in dependency order. Batch 1 (blank-line collapse, 5 points): new `AddressLineCollapser` row-height-shift geometry, `collapsible` XML attribute, and a dashed-orange canvas highlight distinguishing an unmapped column from a merely-blank one. Batch 2 (rotation angle property, 8 points): empirically confirmed against the real Debenu DLL that positive angle is counterclockwise, built `RotatedTextAnchorCalculator` for bounding-box-center pivot math, proved it with a pixel-ink-centroid regression test. Batch 3 (drag-to-rotate handle, 5 points): reused Batch 2's panel/canvas sync plumbing exactly as its sizing note predicted; live-verified with real Win32 mouse-drag input, saved-XML value matched the drag to full floating-point precision. 288/288 tests passing (up from 223). One honestly-reported testing-tooling glitch (not a product defect), correctly not logged as debt. |
| 2026-09-29 | 4 - Sprint review | `product-owner` verified all 3 Sprint 4 stories against acceptance criteria (verdict: sprint goal met in full). Updated `backlog/backlog.md`'s epic status table and added a "Sprint 4 Review outcome" section; wrote independent confirmation notes for all 3 stories (dev-team was deliberately kept from pre-writing epic verification content this sprint). Both the Template Designer GUI Foundation and CSV Integration and Field Mapping epics are now Done outright. |
| 2026-09-29 | 1 - Backlog refinement | Ahead of closing Sprint 4, the user requested requirements for a new composite "Address Control" element (grouped lines mixing static text and CSV fields, single-anchor placement). `product-owner` gathered requirements across two rounds of clarifying questions and recorded a new epic, `backlog/epics/08_composite_address_controls.md` (2 dependent stories), deliberately left unsized per the user's own framing of "get requirements" before closing the sprint. |
| 2026-09-29 | 5 - Sprint retrospective | `scrum-master` ran the retrospective (`backlog/sprints/sprint-4-retrospective.md`). Confirmed full follow-through on all four Sprint 3 retro action items, the third clean full-follow-through sprint in a row — notably, the Sprint 3-named PO-review-independence watch item resolved structurally (dev-team was kept from writing epic verification content; product-owner wrote all 3 stories' notes fresh and independently) and was closed out in `logs/process_improvement_log.md` rather than carried forward. Named a new positive signal (a sizing note's specific reuse claim was later confirmed exactly by the real implementation). No kit edits. Checked all anti-patterns including the PO-review-independence watch item explicitly; none found. |