Pi Dev doesn't auto-load automaton's system prompt (unlike opencode),
so the agent has no awareness of tasks, phases, or status.py commands.
This bridges that gap:
- scripts/pi-automaton.sh: NEW — detects scope (framework/project),
reads active tasks, default model, config snippet, AGENTS.md rules,
and prints a formatted context block the user pastes as their first
message to the Pi Dev agent. Does NOT launch pi.
- scripts/register-guards.sh: EXTENDED — after Pi Dev guard install,
offers to symlink pi-automaton.sh to ~/bin/pi-automaton
(interactive prompt only when stdin is a terminal).
- README.md: added 'Using Pi Dev with automaton' FAQ subsection
documenting the context printer workflow.
- install.sh: no longer exits early when ~/.automaton exists.
Skips the clone but runs all setup (VRAM detection, guards,
self-improvement loop, virtualenv). Both curl|bash and
git-clone + ./install.sh now work correctly.
- onboard-project.sh: new script that bootstraps automaton in a
project — creates .automaton/ skeleton, detects models, writes
config.md, inits git, installs hooks, adds .gitignore entries.
- README.md: fix install flow docs (curl|bash + clone-then-run),
add onboard-project.sh as Option A for project setup
- task.py: Task dataclass gains models: dict[str, str], loaded from
.state.models in discover_tasks()
- app.py: models dict included in all task API responses
- dashboard.js: model badges rendered between artifacts and subtask
progress on kanban cards; ROLE_LABELS map for readable tooltips
- styles.css: .task-card-models and .model-badge styles
- design/loops/technical.md: document {model} substitution token,
per-role model field, and model-divergence brake gate (gate #7)
- **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).
--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).
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