Restore archived tasks, fix dashboard scroll-reset, bind ornith, add Playwright smoke test

- **Restore 82 completed tasks** from tasks/complete/ back to tasks/ top
  level (all <7 days old per the cleanup policy; premature bulk archive
  was fixed).
- **Dashboard: fix scroll-reset on auto-refresh** — renderBoard rebuilds
  the board via innerHTML every 2s, destroying each column-body's
  scrollTop. Now snapshots column-body scrollTop + board.scrollLeft +
  view.scrollTop before rebuild and restores after (matched by
  PHASE_GROUPS index).
- **Dashboard UI additions** (pre-existing unstaged work): approval
  section cards, transition buttons, inline artifact editor (textarea for
  writing missing SPEC/VERDICT/etc from the detail modal).
- **Bind ornith as Implement model** — config.md: Model explicit to
  omlx/Ornith-1.0-35B-4bit-mlx, context window 32768. Interactive
  autopilot already used ornith via opencode default; now explicit.
- **Fix cleanup stub** — automaton-cleanup.sh had a stale --project arg
  pointing at a pytest temp dir (test isolation leak). Rewired to point
  at ~/.automaton.
- **Fix plist-isolation test** — test asserted host plist doesn't exist,
  but a real install creates it. Now snapshots mtime before run, asserts
  unchanged after (only a write during the test counts as bleed).
- **New Playwright smoke test** (tests/test_dashboard_ui.py) — 2 tests:
  board renders tasks, column scroll survives auto-refresh tick.
  Verified the test fails without the scroll fix (scrollTop resets to 0).
  Skipped via importorskip when playwright is absent (main CI stays
  green).
- **Clarify SI loop scope in README** — new-project onboarding section
  documents the framework-scoped self-improvement loop and options
  (leave/pause/create project loop).
- **CHANGELOG** documents all changes including the known model-divergence
  gap (mde tasks marked complete but per-role model binding was never
  implemented).

tasks/add-self-improvement-loop/RESEARCH.md

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+# RESEARCH: add-self-improvement-loop
+
+## Objective
+
+Make the self-improvement loop default-on at install time (D21). The template `templates/loops/self-improvement/loop.json` was already created in task 6. This task wires it into `install.sh` and `update.sh` so that:
+- Fresh installs get the loop created and scheduled automatically
+- Existing users who run `update.sh` get the loop bootstrapped (idempotent -- skip if already exists)
+
+## Current State
+
+### `install.sh` (lines 1-79)
+- Clones repo to `~/.automaton`
+- Runs VRAM detection
+- Registers pre-edit guards via `register-guards.sh`
+- Sets up `.venv` and pip deps
+- Does NOT create any loops
+
+### `update.sh` (lines 1-74)
+- Pulls latest from git
+- Checks for deprecated file locations
+- Registers guards
+- Installs git hooks in current project
+- Does NOT create any loops
+
+### `--create-loop` (status.py:1773)
+- Takes `--create-loop <name>`, `--from-template <name>`, `--project <path>`
+- Creates `~/.automaton/loops/<name>/` (when project is `~/.automaton/`)
+- Copies `loop.json` from template, patches `name` field
+- Creates `.state.loop` with initial state (`running`)
+- Creates empty `.state.log`
+- Returns error if loop already exists
+
+### `--install-schedule` (status.py:1807)
+- Takes `--install-schedule <name>`, `--interval <seconds>`, `--project <path>`
+- Generates OS-specific tick stub (`automaton-loop-tick.sh` or `.bat`)
+- Installs OS schedule unit (launchd plist on macOS, cron on Linux, schtasks on Windows)
+- Interval defaults to `loop.json schedule.interval_seconds` or 3600
+
+### `_loops_dir` (status.py:1609)
+- When project is `~/.automaton/`, loops dir is `~/.automaton/loops/`
+- When project is other, loops dir is `<project>/.automaton/loops/`
+
+## Design Decisions
+
+### D1: Where to add the install hook
+In `install.sh`, after the clone and guard registration, add:
+```bash
+# Bootstrap self-improvement loop (default-on, D21)
+python3 "$FRAMEWORK_DIR/scripts/status.py" --create-loop self-improvement \
+  --from-template self-improvement --project "$FRAMEWORK_DIR"
+python3 "$FRAMEWORK_DIR/scripts/status.py" --install-schedule self-improvement \
+  --interval 3600 --project "$FRAMEWORK_DIR"
+```
+
+### D2: Where to add the update hook
+In `update.sh`, after the git pull and guard registration, add an idempotent bootstrap:
+```bash
+# Bootstrap self-improvement loop if not present (default-on, D21)
+if [ ! -d "$FRAMEWORK_DIR/loops/self-improvement" ]; then
+  python3 "$FRAMEWORK_DIR/scripts/status.py" --create-loop self-improvement \
+    --from-template self-improvement --project "$FRAMEWORK_DIR"
+  python3 "$FRAMEWORK_DIR/scripts/status.py" --install-schedule self-improvement \
+    --interval 3600 --project "$FRAMEWORK_DIR"
+fi
+```
+
+### D3: Test approach
+The test `test_self_improvement_installs_default_on` should verify that `install.sh` contains the create-loop and install-schedule commands for the self-improvement loop. A full integration test (actually running install.sh) would require a mock git clone target and is fragile. Instead, test the script content for the required commands, and test that `--create-loop self-improvement --from-template self-improvement --project <framework>` produces the expected directory structure (this is already tested in the status.py tests but we add a specific test for the self-improvement template).
+
+### D4: User opt-out
+Users can disable the self-improvement loop with:
+```bash
+python3 ~/.automaton/scripts/status.py --pause-loop self-improvement --project ~/.automaton/
+```
+This should be documented in the install output and README.
+
+## Risks
+
+- **install.sh failure**: if `--create-loop` fails (e.g. Python not in PATH yet), install.sh should continue (the loop is optional, not critical for framework operation). Use `|| true` to non-fatal the loop bootstrap.
+- **update.sh idempotency**: the `if [ ! -d ... ]` check ensures existing users don't get errors on repeated updates.
+- **Platform differences**: `--install-schedule` handles platform dispatch internally. No shell-level platform checks needed.