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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).
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Implementation: Additive Extension Model

Summary

Replaced the diff/merge upgrade process with an additive extension model. Projects no longer copy framework files — they provide overrides via .agent.md, .rules.md, and an optional extensions/ directory.

Changes Made

prompts/orchestrate.md

  • Base framework files (prompts, contracts, scripts) now always read from ~/.automaton/
  • Projects provide additive extensions under {project}/.automaton/extensions/
  • Extension read order: project extensions loaded after (or before for scripts) corresponding global files
  • .agent.md and .rules.md remain layered (project override first)

prompts/onboarding.md

  • Removed the diff/merge "Project Upgrade" section
  • Simplified to create minimal .agent.md and .rules.md if missing
  • Documents the extensions/ directory pattern
  • Explicitly states projects should never copy framework files

scripts/update.sh

  • Simplified to plain git pull origin main
  • Removed reset hard HEAD step — never touches project directories

README.md

  • Updated "Upgrading existing projects" section for the additive model
  • Documents the extensions/ directory pattern
  • Migration path for old-model projects

Files Modified

  • prompts/orchestrate.md — reordered read precedence, added extension checks
  • prompts/onboarding.md — removed diff/merge section, simplified setup
  • scripts/update.sh — simplified to plain git pull
  • README.md — documented new upgrade model