Baseline Reports — project-state v2.0

With v2.0 released and the system eating its own dogfood, it's time to establish baselines. These five snapshots capture the starting position — every future progress report measures against them.

1. Milestone Baseline

Schedule

Priority Tiers

• Must-ship (v2.1): M09 (validation suite), M02 (pack hardening)
• Should-ship (v2.1): M08 (orchestrator scheduling), M03 (matrix editor)
• Defer (v2.2+): M04, M07, M05, M06
• Gate: M10 (ships when must-ship milestones complete)

Timeline

2026     Apr    May    Jun    Jul    Aug    Sep    Oct    Nov    Dec
M01  ████ (done)
M02         ████████████
M09              ██████████
M03                  ████████████
M08                ██████████████
M04                       ████████████
M10                                ████
M05                                ██████████████
M07                                    ████████████████
M06                                         ████████████████

2. Risk Register

11 risks identified from a deep analysis of the actual codebase and substrate.

Heat Map

Critical Risks

R-01: Single maintainer — bus factor of one (9) One person designs, builds, tests, documents, and deploys. If unavailable, no one else can maintain the system. Mitigation: document everything, make the substrate self-describing, open-source the spec.

R-03: Zero automated tests or CI/CD (9) No test suite, no CI pipeline, no pre-commit hooks. Schema changes could silently corrupt existing substrates. Mitigation: M09 (validation suite) is the highest-priority milestone.

R-07: Overlapping timeline — 9 milestones in 5 months (9) Aggressive roadmap for a single maintainer. Mitigation: ruthless prioritization. Must-ship M09 + M02; defer M04, M07, M05, M06 to v2.2+.

Immediately Actionable

3. Roadmap Timeline

Five roadmap phases spanning April–December 2026:

1. Foundation (April) — COMPLETE. v2.0 shipped with 18 skills, 5 packs, full docs.
2. Hardening (May–June) — M02 + M09. Prevent silent corruption, make packs production-ready.
3. Automation (June–August) — M03 + M08. Self-driving orchestrator, visual matrix editor.
4. Distribution (July–September) — M04 + M10. Pack registry, v2.1 release gate.
5. Compliance Expansion (August–December) — M05 + M06 + M07. New packs, portfolio dashboard.

Critical path: M01 (done) → M02 + M09 (parallel) → M08 → M10

4. Reporting Matrix

3 entries, 2 active surfaces:

Lean but appropriate for a single-maintainer open-source project. Slack, Gmail, and Calendar are available but disabled — no one to notify besides the maintainer.

5. Project Identity

project-state is an open-source operational substrate for multi-stakeholder projects. It provides 18 skills and 5 compliance packs that turn any project into a system where routine reporting is a byproduct of normal work.

The substrate is a typed filesystem — plain YAML, JSON, NDJSON, and markdown files. No database, no API, no vendor lock-in. A shared drive or git repo is all you need.

This project uses itself as its own operational substrate. The .project-state/ directory manages the project-state system's own roadmap, risks, decisions, and reporting. The system proves its value by running itself.

These baselines were generated on 2026-04-28. All future progress reports measure against these starting positions.