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Lap Tran bc7daf8590 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).
2026-06-26 10:05:18 -04:00

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VERDICT: add-loop-templates-onboarding

Task

Implement prompt-file token substitution in the loop runner, create three loop role prompts (loop-implement.md, loop-verifier.md, loop-orchestrate.md), fill in both loop templates, create the self-improvement template, and add onboarding documentation.

Deliverables Review

Requirement Status Evidence
R1: _resolve_prompt with token substitution DONE scripts/loop-runner.py:248-303, 4 tests in TestResolvePrompt
R2: prompts/loop-implement.md DONE File created, 2 tests in TestPromptFiles
R3: prompts/loop-verifier.md DONE File created, 3 tests in TestPromptFiles
R4: prompts/loop-orchestrate.md DONE File created, 2 tests in TestPromptFiles
R5: ci-triage template roles filled DONE templates/loops/ci-triage/loop.json, 1 test in TestCiTriageTemplate
R6: self-improvement template created DONE templates/loops/self-improvement/loop.json, 5 tests in TestSelfImprovementTemplate
R7: README onboarding section DONE README.md "Loop Engineering" section with Quick Start, Tick Cycle, Configuration, Monitoring, Halt/Resume
R8: tests/test_loop_templates.py DONE 18 tests (target was 12-16; exceeded)
R9: CHANGELOG and technical.md DONE CHANGELOG.md task 6 entry, design/loops/technical.md section 8 updated

Quality Assessment

  • Test coverage: 18 new tests, all passing. Full suite 393 passed (was 369). No regressions.
  • Backward compatibility: _invoke_harness new params are optional. Existing tests updated to use non-existent prompt refs so _resolve_prompt fallback path is exercised. No breaking changes.
  • Code quality: _resolve_prompt is clean, well-structured, handles all edge cases (missing file, missing artifact, empty prompt_ref, missing outputs dir). Follows existing code conventions.
  • Documentation: README onboarding section is comprehensive. technical.md section 8 documents the prompt resolution flow. CHANGELOG is detailed.
  • Security: Adversarial review found no exploitable vulnerabilities. Path traversal is mitigated by trusted input. Token injection is not possible (single-pass substitution). Large artifact DoS is mitigated by context floor gate.

Pipeline Artifacts

  • SPEC.md -- written and approved
  • IMPLEMENTATION.md -- written
  • CODE_REVIEW.md -- written, approved
  • BUG_REPORT.md -- written (CLEAN, 2 LOW + 1 INFO)
  • ADVERSARIAL_BUG_REPORT.md -- written (CLEAN, no exploitable vulnerabilities)
  • DOC_REVIEW.md -- written (APPROVED)

Verdict

APPROVED -- ready for complete.

All 9 requirements (R1-R9) are fully implemented, tested, and documented. The task delivers the critical missing piece of loop engineering v1: prompt-file token substitution that closes the feedback loop between ticks. The three loop role prompts provide the LLM instructions for the Implement/Verify/Orchestrate cycle. The self-improvement template enables the framework to improve itself via audit-driven loops.