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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: Autopilot Gate Integration

Changes Made

1. Gate-between-phases in autopilot

The orchestrator prompt (prompts/orchestrate.md) now defines an explicit gate-check loop:

  1. Read .state → confirm current phase
  2. Run status.py --validate-folder → check for out-of-order artifacts
  3. If violations found → STOP and report
  4. Load phase prompt → confirm ALLOWED/FORBIDDEN boundaries
  5. Execute phase → produce required artifact
  6. If phase requires approval → --transition {phase}:awaiting_approval, pause for user sign-off, --approve, --transition {next-phase}
  7. If phase does NOT require approval → --transition {next-phase}

2. Resumption from .state

  • The orchestrator reads .state for each task, no artifact re-derivation needed
  • Approval sub-states are preserved across sessions

3. Persona switching

  • Orchestrator loads the prompt for the current phase based on .state
  • FORBIDDEN sections in phase prompts constrain what the orchestrator can do
  • Orchestrator must NOT override phase-level FORBIDDEN rules

4. Approval gates in autopilot

  • Research, decomposition, design, and test_design phases ALWAYS pause for user approval in autopilot
  • The pause is enforced by status.py --transition refusing past :awaiting_approval
  • After user says "APPROVED", status.py --approve is called, then transition proceeds

5. Session break recovery

  • .state file records the last completed phase (including approval sub-states)
  • Next session reads .state and resumes exactly where it left off
  • No phase progress is lost on session break

6. Manual mode coexistence

  • Orchestrator reads .state and reports current phase
  • User triggers phases manually, orchestrator calls status.py --transition and status.py --approve

7. Periodic audit

  • Orchestrator calls status.py --audit at session start and after task completion
  • Catches violations that might slip through individual phase gates

Files Modified

  • prompts/orchestrate.md (rewritten, 143 lines with gate-check loop)
  • prompts/workflow.md (referenced from orchestrate.md)