Project Status

Shipping State

• Web app: live
• Companion PDF: live (content complete, pre-promotion)
• Public exercises repo: live
• Gumroad product: live
• Wiki: live
• Workspace meta repo (VHCosta/csl): live (new 2026-04-21)

This page tracks the current shipped state. Historical launch tasks that are already complete have been removed from the active checklist below.

Product Snapshot

Web App

• 10 web modules are shipped
• Local companion integration is available for supported terminal commands
• Terminal companion contract now supports multi-file lesson payloads

Companion PDF

• 12 PDF chapters are shipped
• Four PDF outputs build from llc-companion-pdf/
• Current outputs: companion.pdf, companion-demo.pdf, companion-solutions.pdf, companion-complete.pdf
• P0 pre-launch fixes: done (CVE citation, TIME_WAIT attribution, C11 copy, errata pass)
• P1.1 “How to use this companion” page: done
• P1.2 Updates policy: done
• P1.3 T3 Gumroad copy fixed: done
• P1.5 Exercise feedback callouts (all 36 exercises across 12 chapters): done

Exercises

• llc-course/content/ is the canonical exercise tree
• Canonical exercise count: 48 across 12 chapters
• c-systems-lab-exercises/ is the public starter mirror
• llc-companion-pdf/tests/ is the solution-side test mirror

Workspace

• VHCosta/csl is the new workspace meta repo (private)
• Contains: STATUS.md, plans/, tools/bash/, tools/win/
• Replaces VHCosta/csl-tools as the versioned home for cross-repo tooling

Verification Status

Last audited: 2026-04-17 (no content changes since that affect counts)

• llc-course/scripts/check-content-sync.sh: pass
• llc-course/scripts/validate.sh: pass across the 48-exercise tree; ch01/ex1_3 is intentionally skipped because it has no .c source
• llc-companion-pdf/tests/run_all.sh: 48/48 pass
• llc-course: production build passes

Remaining Work

Current frontier (PDF promotion gate):

• Gumroad listing updates: screenshots, audience line, T3 description (P1.6)
• Price floor adjustment: $25/$38 / $45 (P1.7)
• Distribution priming: HN, r/C_Programming, Bluesky (P1.8)
• GUI PDF viewer audit + full visual artifact pass all four outputs
• Release sign-off note

Active plan doc: plans/2026-04-20-design-companion-v1x-plan.md in VHCosta/csl

Notes

• The PDF chapter order is not a 1:1 mirror of the web module order.
• Chapter 12 currently exists only in the PDF/exercise tracks, not as a web module.
• The validated current PDF/product baseline is 48 exercises / 12 chapters / 4 appendices.
• The wiki is a status/reference surface, not the source of truth for build or release procedures.