# Status — 2026-08-20

> Last updated: 2026-08-20. Update this file after every deploy or when switching tasks.

## What Works Today ✅

- **Singleplayer quiz** — Duolingo-style, 5 language pairs (en↔it/de/es/fr), 3 or 10 rounds, POS + difficulty filters
- **Multiplayer** — Create/join lobby by room code, 2–4 players, simultaneous answers, 15s server timer, live scoring, winner screen
- **Auth** — Google + GitHub via Better Auth, cross-subdomain cookies, session middleware on protected routes
- **Deployment** — Live at lilastudy.com, Hetzner VPS, Caddy HTTPS, Docker Compose, CI/CD via Forgejo Actions
- **Database** — PostgreSQL with Drizzle ORM, daily backups, idempotent seeding

## What's Broken / Blocked 🚧

- **Data quality** — Production still uses OpenWordNet/OMW translations. The replacement is the Gemini-only pipeline on branch `refactor/gemini-only-pipeline`: the sense-based schema (`words` → `senses` → `translations`) is migrated but still empty in Postgres. The pipeline is **built and running**, staging into SQLite; the SQLite → Postgres import script (Phase 4) is what's missing. The earlier Kaikki/local-LLM pipeline was abandoned and removed (docs in `documentation/archive/`).
- **Guest play** — Auth is required for all game routes. No try-before-signup flow.
- **Game session store** — Still in-memory (`InMemoryGameSessionStore`). Valkey container exists in local dev but not wired up.
- **Rate limiting** — Partially implemented on auth endpoints; game endpoints not yet covered.
- **React error boundaries** — Not implemented; runtime crashes take down the whole app.
- **Monitoring** — No uptime alerts or centralized logging on the VPS.

## What I'm Working On Now 🔄

**Primary:** Phase 3 of the Gemini-only data pipeline (see [pipeline/roadmap.md](pipeline/roadmap.md)). The pipeline code is complete and unit-tested — prompt templating, validation, Gemini structured output, and SQLite staging all work, and runs are resumable. Remaining Phase 3 work is data, not code:

1. Finish the full staging pass (~1,550–1,750 deduped nouns × 5 languages), German in progress.
2. Fix the one systemic rejection cause — sense difficulty tagged higher than its own easiest translation. It's derivable, so `validate.ts` should normalize rather than reject.
3. Fix the difficulty skew: `hard` translations are under 1% of staged rows, which leaves the "hard" game mode with too few rows to fill a round. Prompt calibration, needed before Phase 4 import.
4. Spot-check 50 entries by hand.

**Secondary:** Phase 7 hardening backlog items (see BACKLOG.md `next` section).

## Next 2-Week Goal 🎯

Finish pipeline Phase 3 (full noun run staged in SQLite, reject rate < 10%, 50 entries spot-checked) → Phase 4 import script (pipeline Postgres :5433, then dev :5432) → start rewriting `getGameTerms`/`getDistractors` against the new schema.

## The Big Picture

Lila is a **deployed, working vocabulary quiz app**. The core loop (singleplayer + multiplayer) is solid. The next strategic milestone is **media-based practice** (learn vocab from a song/TV episode/book chapter), but that depends on:

1. The Gemini data pipeline reaching production (fixes translation quality)
2. A media ingestion prototype (subtitles/lyrics → text → vocab extraction → quiz)

Until then, the app is a generic vocabulary quiz — functional but not differentiated.

## Quick Links

- [BACKLOG.md](BACKLOG.md) — Prioritized tasks (`now` / `next` / `later`)
- [DATA_PIPELINE.md](DATA_PIPELINE.md) — Pipeline orientation and current progress
- [pipeline/roadmap.md](pipeline/roadmap.md) — Phase-by-phase pipeline plan
- [DEPLOYMENT.md](DEPLOYMENT.md) — Infrastructure ops