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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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Code Review: fix-stale-task-mtime-proxy

Reviewed Files

  • scripts/status.py (_get_edit_timestamp(), _touch_lastedit(), cmd_can_edit(), cmd_same_session(), cmd_touch(), NON_ARTIFACT_FILES)

Changes

  1. Added .state.lastedit file as the stale-task timer source
  2. _touch_lastedit() called on ALLOWED --can-edit responses
  3. _get_edit_timestamp() reads .state.lastedit with fallback to .state mtime
  4. Added staleness check to single-task --can-edit --task path
  5. --touch now touches .state.lastedit instead of .state

Analysis

  • Correctness: Using .state.lastedit (touched on actual edit activity) is a better proxy for staleness than .state mtime (which only reflects phase transitions)
  • Backward compatibility: Falls back to .state mtime when .state.lastedit doesn't exist
  • Non-artifact: .state.lastedit correctly added to NON_ARTIFACT_FILES to avoid being treated as a phase artifact
  • Single-task path: Adding staleness check to --can-edit --task makes enforcement consistent across both code paths
  • --touch command: Updated to touch .state.lastedit — consistent with the new activity tracking model

Verdict: PASS

The fix is well-structured, maintains backward compatibility, and correctly addresses the mtime proxy issue. Tests cover creation, staleness detection, and fallback behavior.