IMPLEMENTATION_CHECKLIST.md

VERIS Implementation Checklist

Phase 1: Repository Bootstrap ✓

• Architecture specifications frozen
• Repository structure created
• Root workspace configured
• Build system verified
• CI workflows created
• VSCode settings configured
• npm publishing readiness verified
• Release documentation complete (VERSIONING.md, RELEASE.md)

Packages

Layer 0 — Foundation

• Core types, errors, constants
• Collections, hashing, serialization, FS, net, path, platform, Result monad, semver

Layer 1 — Framework

• Structured logging
• Configuration loading
• Metrics and tracing
• AI provider adapters

Layer 2 — Domain

• Extraction framework
• Rule matching and evaluation
• Shipped rule packs
• Taxonomy and mappings

Layer 3 — Analysis

• Pipeline orchestrator

Layer 4 — Report & Output

• Report construction
• Output formats

Layer 5 — Application

• CLI commands
• Programmatic API

Layer 6+ — Extensions

• Execution runners
• Plugin system (V2+)
• Report rendering (in progress)

Milestones

• M1: All packages compile
• M2: Core types validated
• M3: Extraction pipeline works
• M4: Rules engine matches findings
• M5: Full analysis pipeline runs
• M6: CLI commands functional
• M7: V1.0 Release Candidate (in progress)

Release Readiness

• npm metadata verified (all packages)
• engines field set (node >= 18)
• publishConfig set (public access)
• CHANGELOG.md up to date
• VERSIONING.md created
• RELEASE.md created