- **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).
- task.py: remove naive substring fallback from parse_verdict_status(),
only parse ## Status: header; no header → ambiguous (REFEREE)
- status.py: add _auto_update_verdict_on_complete() — when transitioning
human_intervention→complete, auto-update VERDICT.md to PASS
- status.py: add stale-task detection to --can-edit — deny edits if
all edit tasks have .state mtime >30 min old (reason: stale_task)
- status.py: add --touch command to reset task activity clock
- guard plugin: handle stale_task reason with specific error message
- Update test to match new verdict parsing behavior
State Enforcement (v2.0):
- .state file as single source of truth for task phase
- Approval gates for research, decomposition, design, test_design
- status.py --transition refuses illegal phase transitions
- status.py --validate-folder detects out-of-order artifacts
- status.py --audit checks all tasks for violations
- status.py --create-task is the only valid way to create tasks
- Pre-v2.0 tasks without .state are UNTRACKED -- all commands refuse them
- New --upgrade command bootstraps .state files for existing tasks
Project Scoping:
- --project flag added to all status.py commands across 16+ files
- _find_project_dir errors instead of silently falling back to ~/.automaton/
- --scope-check marks framework files OUT_OF_SCOPE when working on a project
- Dashboard handlers use stored project_root instead of re-detecting from CWD
- Prompts reference ~/.automaton/scripts/vram_detect.py (not {project}/.automaton/)
Harness Integration:
- status.py --can-edit now supports project-level checks (no --task required)
- --can-edit --file checks file scope without --task
- --json output for machine-readable harness integration
- opencode plugin (plugins/automaton-guard/plugin.ts) intercepts edit/write
- Git pre-commit hook (scripts/git-hooks/pre-commit) blocks commits without task
- Formal integration contract (contracts/harness-integration.md)
Other:
- upgrade.sh delegates to status.py --upgrade instead of manual heuristics
- Phase prompts reference --project {project} for multi-project scoping
- 200 tests passing (14 new)
- Rewrite vram_detect in Python with fixed config parsing and 10KB read limit
- Add pytest suite (72 tests) covering dashboard core, app security, and VRAM
- Standardize all prompts to .automaton/tasks/{task-name}/ path
- Reconcile dashboard spec with web implementation; remove themes.py
- Remove half-implemented refresh.py file watcher
- Harden dashboard static-file serving and task-name validation
- Add uncommitted-change guard to update.sh and real Gitea URLs
- Add AGENTS.md, Gitea CI workflow, and template documentation
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