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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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IMPLEMENTATION: add-self-improvement-loop

Summary

Wired the self-improvement loop into install.sh (default-on for fresh installs) and update.sh (idempotent bootstrap for existing users). Both use status.py --create-loop self-improvement --from-template self-improvement and --install-schedule self-improvement --interval 3600 with || true to ensure the framework continues to work even if loop creation fails.

Changes

R1 -- scripts/install.sh

Added after guard registration (inside the else block, before fi):

  • --create-loop self-improvement --from-template self-improvement --project "$FRAMEWORK_DIR" with || true
  • --install-schedule self-improvement --interval 3600 --project "$FRAMEWORK_DIR" with || true
  • User-facing message about the self-improvement loop and how to disable it with --pause-loop

R2 -- scripts/update.sh

Added after guard registration:

  • Idempotent check: if [ ! -d "$FRAMEWORK_DIR/loops/self-improvement" ]
  • Same --create-loop and --install-schedule commands with || true
  • Info message when the loop is created

R3 -- tests/test_self_improvement_loop.py

16 tests across 4 classes:

  • TestInstallShWiring (5 tests): verify install.sh contains create-loop, install-schedule, opt-out message, framework project, and || true
  • TestUpdateShWiring (4 tests): verify update.sh contains create-loop, idempotent check, install-schedule, and || true
  • TestSelfImprovementTemplate (5 tests): verify template fields (audit work source, brakes, worktree, file scope, role prompts)
  • TestCreateLoopFromTemplate (2 tests): simulate --create-loop self-improvement --from-template self-improvement and verify directory structure; verify duplicate creation is refused

R4 -- Documentation

  • CHANGELOG.md: task 7 entry under [unreleased]
  • README.md: note that self-improvement loop is default-on at install
  • design/loops/technical.md section 9: note that install.sh creates it default-on

Verification

  • bash -n scripts/install.sh scripts/update.sh -- OK
  • python3 -m pytest tests/test_self_improvement_loop.py -v -- 16 passed
  • python3 -m pytest tests/ -q -- 409 passed (393 + 16 new)