PROGRESS.md

HaystackBench Development Progress

Phase 0: Planning & Documentation

• PRD.md complete
• ARCHITECTURE.md complete
• ROADMAP.md complete
• METHODOLOGY.md complete
• Initial git commit

Phase 1: Project Scaffold

• Folder structure created
• pyproject.toml configured
• .gitignore configured
• Basic package imports working

Phase 2: Core Engine

• Needle generation (synthetic)
• Needle generation (template)
• Needle generation (relational/ATC)
• Haystack builder (Paul Graham source)
• Haystack builder (Wikipedia source)
• Depth injector
• Evaluator (exact match)
• Evaluator (semantic)
• Evaluator (LLM judge)
• Runner (async)
• Runner (checkpoint/resume)
• Runner (caching)

Phase 3: Providers

• Anthropic provider
• OpenAI provider
• Google provider
• Mistral provider
• Cohere provider
• Groq provider
• Ollama provider (local)

Phase 4: Tasks

• S-RT task
• M-RT task
• M-RS task
• ATC task
• Counting task
• Key-Value task
• Conflicting needles task

Phase 5: Storage

• SQLite schema and migrations
• Credential storage (keyring)
• Response caching

Phase 6: Visualization

• Heatmap generator
• Line chart generator
• Radar chart generator
• HTML report generator

Phase 7: CLI

• Setup commands
• Run commands
• Results commands
• Serve command

Phase 8: Web UI Backend

• FastAPI app skeleton
• Provider/credential routes
• Experiment routes
• Results routes
• WebSocket progress streaming

Phase 9: Web UI Frontend

• Project scaffold (SvelteKit)
• Dashboard page
• Model setup page
• New experiment wizard
• Progress tracking page
• Results dashboard with heatmap
• Results library

Phase 10: Tests

• Unit tests (80%+ coverage)
• Integration tests

Phase 11: Documentation

• README.md
• QUICKSTART.md
• CONTRIBUTING.md
• API docs (auto-generated)

Phase 12: Release Prep

• CI/CD pipeline
• Package builds successfully
• All docs reviewed
• Git tags and CHANGELOG