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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: fix-stale-task-mtime-proxy

Bug

--can-edit used .state file mtime as a proxy for "last edit activity" to detect stale tasks. But .state is modified by phase transitions, not by actual editing. A task in implement phase for 30+ minutes would be flagged as stale even if the developer was actively editing files the whole time, because .state mtime only reflects the last phase transition.

Fix

  1. Added _get_edit_timestamp() — reads .state.lastedit mtime if it exists, falls back to .state mtime for backward compatibility
  2. Added _touch_lastedit() — creates/updates .state.lastedit file
  3. --can-edit now calls _touch_lastedit() on ALLOWED responses (both project-level and task-level paths), recording actual edit activity
  4. Staleness check uses _get_edit_timestamp() instead of raw .state mtime
  5. Added .state.lastedit to NON_ARTIFACT_FILES so it's not treated as a phase artifact
  6. --same-session uses _get_edit_timestamp() for consistent activity tracking
  7. --touch command now touches .state.lastedit instead of .state
  8. Added staleness check to the single-task --can-edit --task path (previously only project-level --can-edit checked staleness)

Files Changed

  • scripts/status.py: Added _get_edit_timestamp(), _touch_lastedit(), updated cmd_can_edit(), cmd_same_session(), cmd_touch(), NON_ARTIFACT_FILES
  • tests/test_status.py: Added TestStateLastEdit class with 5 tests and TestTestPlanPhaseMapping class

Tests

  • test_can_edit_creates_lastedit_on_allowed: Verifies .state.lastedit is created on ALLOWED
  • test_can_edit_creates_lastedit_with_file_scope: Same for file-scoped can-edit
  • test_stale_uses_lastedit_not_state_mtime: Old .state + recent .state.lastedit → not stale
  • test_stale_when_lastedit_old: Recent .state + old .state.lastedit → stale
  • test_falls_back_to_state_mtime_without_lastedit: No .state.lastedit → falls back to .state mtime
  • All 249 tests pass