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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: Enforce Task-Driven Development via Framework Rules

Overview

The automaton framework has a task-driven workflow (SPEC → Design → Implementation → Verification → Resolution) but nothing tells the AI agent to follow it. The agent makes ad-hoc edits instead of creating proper tasks first.

Root Cause

The agent reads system-prompt.md, .agent.md, and .rules.md at startup, but none instruct it to use the task-driven process. The agent treats framework modifications as "normal coding."

Framework Audit Context

This task covers 4 gaps identified in framework-audit/RESEARCH.md:

Gap	Principle	Rule to Add
G1	Task-driven development	Create task before editing files
G2	VRAM-aware task sizing	Check config.md VRAM before scoping tasks
G4	No manual task creation	Never mkdir tasks/ — use Orchestrator
G5	Agent reads global rules	system-prompt.md must read global .rules.md
G6	Self-improving rules	Add rules per failure mode observed

Changes

1. `~/.automaton/.rules.md`

Replace the template with concrete rules:

# .rules.md

## Task-Driven Development
- All changes must go through a task in tasks/{name}/ with SPEC.md → phases → VERDICT.md
- Never edit files directly without a corresponding task
- Never create task directories manually (mkdir tasks/) — use the Orchestrator

## VRAM-Aware Task Sizing
- Before creating or scoping a task, check ~/.automaton/config.md for VRAM limits
- Verify the task fits within max peak context (default: 12k tokens)
- If no config exists, default to 8k with 25% headroom

## Self-Improvement
- Add one rule per observed failure mode with a concrete example
- Consolidate contradictions monthly. Remove stale rules.
- No rule without a real example of the problem it prevents

2. `system-prompt.md`

After existing instructions, add:

4. Read ~/.automaton/.rules.md (global framework rules)

Acceptance Criteria

~/.automaton/.rules.md has Task-Driven Development, VRAM-Aware Sizing, and Self-Improvement sections
system-prompt.md instructs agent to read global .rules.md
Agent creates tasks before making changes
Agent checks VRAM limits before scoping tasks
Agent never creates task directories manually

Out of Scope

Documentation/changelog process (separate task)
Project migration/cleanup (separate task)
Onboarding changes (separate task)
Dashboard task review UI (separate task)

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