The dashboard had no way to run status.py --approve. The existing
'Approve' button only wrote to REVIEW.md (code review status), not
approve the task's phase gate.
Changes:
- /api/approve/{task_name} POST endpoint in app.py calls status.py --approve
- '🔓 Approve Phase' button in detail panel for approval-gated tasks
- approvePhase() JS function sends the POST and refreshes the board
- CSS for the new button (warning-yellow styling)
This enables the full automation flow: user clicks Approve Phase →
autopilot picks up the approved task on next tick → drives it forward.
--execute flag runs status.py --transition instead of printing suggestions.
--install-schedule creates a launchd plist that runs autopilot --drive --execute
every 60 seconds, providing full automation for task lifecycle transitions.
The autopilot loop:
- Runs on a schedule (60s default), ticks the most advanced unblocked task
- Stalls at :awaiting_approval gates until user runs --approve
- Handles all phases: new → research → decomposition → design → test_design →
implement → code_review → bug_find → adversarial_bug_find → doc_review →
referee → complete
- Fails cleanly when required artifacts are missing (agent must write them)
- Logs stdout/stderr to ~/.automaton/logs/autopilot-*.log
Also fixes test leak in scripts/automaton-cleanup.sh (pytest temp path was
being written into the real stub).
Replaced parent+subtask structure with 3 standalone tasks:
- mde-manifest-detection (foundational: models.json schema, detect_models.py)
- mde-interactive-enforcement (conflict matrix, --model args, audit, badges)
- mde-loop-enforcement (loop.json per-role model, {model} substitution, check-gate)
Parent archived to tasks/complete/ for history. Each task has its own
SPEC.md and is at research:awaiting_approval.
Rationale: subtasks are independently actionable with their own lifecycle.
Parent container added complexity without benefit.
runnable-test-suite (parent) — complete. Three sub-tasks all complete:
- make-tests-runnable: add requirements.txt pinning pytest==7.4.4, sweep all
docs/prompts from bare 'python' to 'python3' (stock macOS/Windows ships
python3), add idempotent .venv install block to scripts/install.sh, and add
'from __future__ import annotations' to 3 dashboard modules using PEP 604
union syntax at definition time so they import on Python 3.9+. The
PEP 604 bug was caught by the streak verifier itself during implementation.
- vram-detect-cross-platform: scripts/vram_detect.py now branches on
platform.system() for Linux/Darwin/Windows. macOS path uses
system_profiler SPDisplaysDataType (Apple Silicon unified memory via
sysctl hw.memsize; Intel Macs via 'VRAM (Total):'). Windows uses wmic
path win32_VideoController get AdapterRAM with PowerShell fallback. Linux
/proc/meminfo and nvidia-smi/lspci paths unchanged (regression test locks
them). Added 14 local-LLM context-window entries (llama-3.1, qwen2.5,
mistral, deepseek-r1/v3, glm-4/4.5, gemma-2, phi-3/4) with source-cited
model cards. Added _probe_ollama_model() that runs 'ollama list' as a
last-resort fallback. run_command() now wraps PowerShell cmdlets on
Windows (['powershell', '-NoProfile', '-NoLogo', '-Command', ...]).
- vram-detect-cross-platform-tests: 11 new monkeypatched tests in
tests/test_vram_detect.py covering Linux/Darwin/Windows branches for
detect_ram and detect_gpu_vram, prefix-match for unknown model names,
ollama probe, Windows PowerShell wrapper, and a LOCKED regression test
for _detect_ram_linux(). All external subprocess/sysctl/wmic calls are
mocked; no live hardware probes. Suite total: 235 passed, 0 errors.
Verified on this box: gpu_vram_gb 0 -> 32 on Apple M5 (32GB unified memory),
target context correctly jumped 12k -> 42k.
Subtask-2 implementation was authored by local LLM (gemma-4-26B-A4B-it
via headroom proxy @ localhost:8787). The 10-consecutive-clean-pass streak
verifier ran as the independent checker model (article #2/#9/#13 in
'WTF Is a Loop? Part 2'). One anti-spin rail fired: local LLM produced
inline branches where subtask-3 tests expected private _detect_ram_linux()
helper; extracted helper to match the test contract without weakening tests.
Parent + all 3 subtasks complete. Prior opencode-subagent implementation
of subtask-2 preserved in git stash for reference.
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