Next is not VS Code yet. We should finish and verify the foundation here first.

projdoc — next sequence

1. Create the actual project package
    * projdoc/
    * projdoc_system/
    * docs/project/
    * scripts/
    * tests/
    * sample application
    * all required .md handoff documents
2. Verify the foundation
    * Run the three foundation tests you already showed passing.
    * Add the remaining tests for:
        * PHP includes/functions/calls
        * JS imports/functions/API calls
        * HTML → JS/PHP relationships
        * shell → shell/PHP relationships
        * SQL → tables
        * configuration/secrets
        * read-only behavior
3. Build the first real analyzer
    The important goal is not merely a file list. We want projdoc to begin producing something like:

index.html
    ↓ script
app.js
    ↓ fetch
api/project.php
    ↓ require
system/database.php
    ↓ SQL
project table

    And:

PHP function
    ↓ calls
PHP function
    ↓ shell_exec
scripts/build.sh

4. Build the browser UI around those results
    The UI should eventually let you select:

Project
├── Overview
├── Application Map
├── Browser Flow
├── Function Calls
├── PHP
├── JavaScript
├── HTML
├── Shell
├── SQL / Database
├── Configuration
├── Architecture Audit
├── Naming Audit
└── Warnings

5. Test projdoc against itself
    This is important. projdoc becomes its own first real subject.
6. Only after that: move to VS Code
    At that point you’ll have a clean project directory and the AI handoff files will tell the next AI exactly where we are.

One important correction

The earlier package attempt included a setup.sh that would run:

pip install --upgrade pip

I don’t want that in our final beginner setup.

Because your requirement is no OS-level modifications, we should make the environment completely project-local and avoid unnecessary Internet/package installation. Since the foundation is deliberately using Python’s standard library, we don’t need pip packages at all right now.

So our next build should be:

project-local .venv → standard-library Python → tests → analyzer → UI → self-analysis → VS Code.

And .venv stays inside:

projdoc/
└── .venv/

—not at the system level and not shared between projects.

The immediate next action is therefore to successfully create the complete projdoc package and run its foundation tests.