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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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Spec: fix-dashboard-read-state

Problem

automaton/dashboard/core/task.py:462 (determine_task_state) infers task phase purely from artifact files, never reading the .state file. This contradicts prompts/workflow.md which declares .state as the "single source of truth." The dashboard cannot reflect the actual enforced state.

Fix

Read the .state file first in determine_task_state(). If .state exists, parse the phase and map it to a TaskState. Fall back to artifact heuristics only if .state doesn't exist (pre-v2.0 tasks).

The phase string in .state may include substates like research:awaiting_approval — map these to their base phase (research).

Acceptance Criteria

  • A task in implement phase (per .state) shows as IMPLEMENT in the dashboard even without IMPLEMENTATION.md
  • A task in test_design phase shows as TEST_DESIGN, not IMPLEMENT
  • A task without .state still uses artifact heuristics (backward compat)
  • Existing dashboard tests in test_task.py still pass
  • Add test verifying .state takes precedence over artifacts