# AI-DLC State Tracking

## Project Information
- **Feature Name**: Tech Debt Backlog
- **Feature Slug**: tech-debt-backlog
- **Project Type**: Brownfield
- **Start Date**: 2026-07-01T00:00:00Z
- **Current Stage**: INCEPTION - Backlog captured, not yet triaged/prioritized
- **Branch**: unknown

## Workspace State
- **Existing Code**: Yes
- **Reverse Engineering Needed**: No (artifacts exist in `aidlc-docs/_shared/reverse-engineering/`)
- **Workspace Root**: K:\Development\Projects\SlpModularCms

## Code Location Rules
- **Application Code**: Workspace root (NEVER in aidlc-docs/)
- **Feature Documentation**: aidlc-docs/features/tech-debt-backlog/ only
- **Shared Artifacts**: aidlc-docs/_shared/

## Language Configuration
- **Documentation Language**: English
- **Conversation Language**: Dutch (User Language)

## Purpose

A running backlog of small, non-blocking issues discovered incidentally while working on other features (dead config, pre-existing lint findings, etc.). Items are captured here instead of fixed in-flight so they don't block the feature where they were found. Pick up and triage when convenient.

## Stage Progress

### 🔵 INCEPTION PHASE
- [x] Workspace Detection — Complete (feature created ad-hoc during master-cms-module Build & Test)
- [ ] Requirements Analysis — Backlog list captured in `inception/requirements/backlog.md`; not yet prioritized or scoped into units
- [ ] Everything else — Not started; pick up when the user chooses to work this feature