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/harden-parse-verdict/IMPLEMENTATION.md

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+# Implementation: harden-parse-verdict
+
+## SCOPE
+
+Closed `add-loop-runner/BUG_REPORT.md` O6 (pass-string coercion bug) plus
+the un-noted sibling issue (no score clamping). Pure-function change to
+`parse_verdict` in `scripts/loop-runner.py`. No CLI surface change; no
+schema change; no new deps (math is stdlib).
+
+## FILES TOUCHED
+
+- `scripts/loop-runner.py`
+  - Added `import math`.
+  - `parse_verdict(text)`: replaced `verdict["pass"] = bool(data.get("pass"))`
+    with explicit string-vs-bool dispatch:
+    - bool passed through → `bool(True)` = True; `bool(False)` = False (unchanged).
+    - `"true"` (any case, leading/trailing whitespace stripped) → True.
+    - `"false"` (any case, leading/trailing whitespace stripped) → False.
+    - Any other string → `bool(raw_pass.strip())` (empty → False; non-empty → True).
+      Preserves old `bool(...)` truthy semantics for `"yes"` / etc.
+  - Replaced `verdict["score"] = float(data.get("score", 0.0))` with:
+    - `try: score = float(data.get("score", 0.0))` /
+      `except (TypeError, ValueError): score = 0.5`
+      (TypeError for non-numeric types like None/list/dict; ValueError for
+      non-numeric strings like "great").
+    - `if not math.isfinite(score): score = 0.5` (catches NaN, Infinity,
+      -Infinity returned by some Hermes-style recursive decoders).
+    - `score = max(0.0, min(1.0, score))` (clamp to `[0, 1]`).
+  - Updated docstring to spell out the new contract: `pass` accepts
+    bool OR `"true"`/`"false"` strings (case-insensitive); `score` is
+    clamped to `[0, 1]` with NaN/non-finite → 0.5.
+
+## D-ITEMS Locked
+
+- **D-V1**: `"true"` / `"false"` strings → bool via case-insensitive
+  equality. Other strings defer to current `bool(...)` for backwards
+  compat (`pass: "yes"` stays truthy).
+- **D-V2**: `score` NaN / non-finite → `0.5`.
+- **D-V3**: `score` non-numeric string → `0.5`.
+- **D-V4**: No opt-out flag for clamping. Strict emitters unaffected.
+- **D-V5**: Tests are pure-functional; no subprocess.
+
+## BUG FOUND AND FIXED INLINE
+
+While running `tests/test_parse_verdict.py`, the test
+`test_other_truthy_string_pass` failed on the first iteration. The
+implementation had:
+
+```python
+if isinstance(raw_pass, str):
+    verdict_pass = raw_pass.strip().lower() == "true"
+```
+
+This treats EVERY non-`"true"` string as False — including `"yes"`,
+which used to be True via `bool("yes")`. SPEC R1 explicitly says
+non-`true`/`false` strings fall through to `bool(...)` for backwards
+compat. Fixed to the three-way branch:
+
+```python
+if isinstance(raw_pass, str):
+    lower = raw_pass.strip().lower()
+    if lower == "true":
+        verdict_pass = True
+    elif lower == "false":
+        verdict_pass = False
+    else:
+        verdict_pass = bool(raw_pass.strip())
+```
+
+This is consistent with SPEC R1 wording. All 22 tests pass after the fix.
+
+## TESTS
+
+New file `tests/test_parse_verdict.py` — 22 tests across 5 classes:
+
+- `TestStrictBaseline` (2): bool `pass` true/false; preserves existing semantics.
+- `TestPassStringCoercion` (6): `"true"`/`"false"` strings, case-insensitive,
+  surrounding whitespace, empty string, other truthy string.
+- `TestScoreClamping` (9): clamped high (1.5→1.0), clamped low (-0.3→0.0),
+  edges (0.0, 1.0), NaN → 0.5, Infinity → 0.5, non-numeric string "great"
+  → 0.5, numeric string "0.75" → 0.75, missing score → 0.0, None score →
+  0.5.
+- `TestFenceBlockStillWorks` (2): existing fence-block path with bool pass;
+  fence path with string-pass + clamped score.
+- `TestOptionalKeysPreserved` (3): reasons+next_hint combination, missing
+  reasons → [], non-list reasons coerced to [].
+
+## TEST COUNT
+
+- Baseline: 447 passed (post-`add-state-loop-lock`).
+- New: +22 in `tests/test_parse_verdict.py`.
+- Final: **469 passed**, 0 regressions.
+
+## PIPELINE TO COMPLETION
+
+research → research:awaiting_approval → research:approved → implement.
+Next: → code_review → code_review:awaiting_approval → code_review:approved
+→ bug_find → adversarial_bug_find → doc_review → referee → complete.