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@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ path = [
     "README.md",
     "trx-rs.toml.example",
     "docs/**",
+    "aidocs/**",
     "src/decoders/trx-ftx/README.md",
     "src/decoders/trx-wxsat/README.md",
     "assets/trx-logo.png",
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+# Work In Progress — Project Improvement Areas
+
+Living tracker for engineering-infrastructure and hardening work identified
+during a July 2026 repo scan. The architecture-level backlog
+(`docs/Improvement-Areas.md`, P0–P3) is closed; these items focus on the
+tooling, robustness, and product concerns *around* the code.
+
+Status legend: **Done** · **In progress** · **Not started**
+
+| #  | Tier | Area | Status |
+|----|------|------|--------|
+| 1  | 1 — Infrastructure | Gitea Actions CI (fmt, clippy, test, REUSE) | In progress |
+| 2  | 1 — Infrastructure | Supply-chain & lint governance (cargo-deny/audit, MSRV, `[workspace.lints]`) | Not started |
+| 3  | 1 — Infrastructure | Release & deployment (container image, systemd units, binary releases) | Not started |
+| 4  | 2 — Robustness | Panic-resilience audit (harden ~495 unwrap/expect/panic sites) | Not started |
+| 5  | 2 — Robustness | `unsafe` SIMD safety scaffolding (`# Safety` docs, scalar↔SIMD equivalence tests) | Not started |
+| 6  | 2 — Robustness | DSP performance benchmarks (criterion, guard optimization gains) | Not started |
+| 7  | 2 — Robustness | Test-coverage measurement & gap-filling (llvm-cov; CAT backends, server tasks) | Not started |
+| 8  | 3 — Product | Frontend modularization & tooling (split `app.js` into ES modules, ESLint, JS tests) | Not started |
+| 9  | 3 — Product | Runtime observability (`/health`, Prometheus metrics) | Not started |
+| 10 | 3 — Product | Documentation freshness & consolidation (reconcile `docs/` with code) | Not started |
+
+## Tier 1 — Infrastructure gaps
+
+### 1. Gitea Actions CI
+No `.gitea/` / `.github/` / Woodpecker workflows exist, despite 768 tests.
+Add a workflow running `cargo fmt --check`, `cargo clippy -D warnings`,
+`cargo build`/`cargo test`, and REUSE lint on push + pull_request.
+System deps: `pkg-config cmake libopus-dev libasound2-dev libsoapysdr-dev`
+(the `soapysdr` backend is a default feature).
+
+Notes for the runner: assumes an `act_runner` registered with an
+`ubuntu-latest` label and GitHub-action proxying enabled (used by
+`actions/checkout`, `actions/cache`, `fsfe/reuse-action`). `clippy` runs
+with `-D warnings`; core crates are already clean, but if the first full
+`--all-features` run surfaces warnings in a less-travelled crate, fix them
+(preferred) or temporarily soften that step.
+
+### 2. Supply-chain & lint governance
+No `deny.toml`, `cargo audit`, `rustfmt.toml`/`clippy.toml`, declared MSRV,
+or `[workspace.lints]`. Add dependency auditing to CI, pin an MSRV
+(`rust-version`), and centralize lint policy in the workspace manifest.
+
+### 3. Release & deployment
+No `Dockerfile`, systemd units, packaging, or release automation (only
+`script/dummy-server.sh`). Add a container image, example systemd units for
+`trx-server`/`trx-client`, and a tag-triggered static-binary release job.
+
+## Tier 2 — Robustness & correctness
+
+### 4. Panic-resilience audit
+495 `unwrap()`/`expect()`/`panic!` sites, 11 in the hottest server files
+(`audio.rs`, `rig_task.rs`). A panic there can drop a rig task or the
+process. Convert hot-path panics to error propagation / graceful
+degradation; reserve `expect` for documented invariants.
+
+### 5. `unsafe` SIMD safety scaffolding
+13 `unsafe` blocks (AVX2 DSP). Add `# Safety` docs stating invariants,
+confirm runtime feature detection is tested, and add property tests
+asserting SIMD output matches the scalar fallback across random inputs.
+
+### 6. DSP performance benchmarks
+`docs/Optimization-Guidelines.md` documents NCO/polyphase/AVX2 gains, but no
+`criterion` benches guard them. Add benches for the demod/resample/FFT hot
+paths so regressions surface as numbers.
+
+### 7. Test-coverage measurement & gap-filling
+67 of 146 Rust files have no test module. Protocol is well covered; backends
+(CAT BCD/ASCII encoding), `listener.rs`, and `config.rs` look thin. Wire up
+`cargo-llvm-cov` and target the CAT backends and server tasks first.
+
+## Tier 3 — Product & maintainability
+
+### 8. Frontend modularization & tooling
+`app.js` is 8,760 lines and `map-core.js` 3,515, with no modules, linter, or
+tests. Keeping vanilla HTML+JS (no framework), split into native ES modules
+by concern, add ESLint + Prettier, and add `node:test` unit tests for pure
+logic (frequency formatting, unit math, decode parsing).
+
+### 9. Runtime observability
+`tracing` is set up, but there is no `/health` endpoint or metrics
+instrumentation. Add health/readiness endpoints and Prometheus-format
+metrics (decode rates, reconnects, audio underruns, per-rig state).
+
+### 10. Documentation freshness & consolidation
+`docs/` (13 files) is mostly dated 2026-03-29 while code moved into July, and
+mixes planning artifacts with reference docs. Reconcile against current code,
+separate "plans" from "reference," and fold still-true content into the
+canonical docs.