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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: Phase-Scoped Prompts with Forbidden Actions

Changes Made

1. ALLOWED/FORBIDDEN sections in all phase prompts

Each phase prompt now includes:

ALLOWED ACTIONS — explicit list of what the agent can do
FORBIDDEN ACTIONS — explicit list of what the agent cannot do, including "Do NOT" instructions and handling user overrides

Phase-specific definitions:

research.md: ALLOWED read/ask questions/write SPEC.md; FORBIDDEN edit code, create IMPLEMENTATION.md, skip to implementation
decompose.md: ALLOWED read SPEC/ask questions/write DECOMPOSITION.md; FORBIDDEN edit code, modify SPEC.md, create sub-task folders
design.md: ALLOWED read SPEC/ask questions/write DESIGN.md; FORBIDDEN edit code, create IMPLEMENTATION.md, skip to implementation
test_design.md: ALLOWED read SPEC+DESIGN/ask questions/write TEST_PLAN.md; FORBIDDEN edit code, write test implementations
implement.md: ALLOWED edit code/write tests/create IMPLEMENTATION.md; FORBIDDEN create new tasks, modify SPEC/DESIGN
bug_finder.md: ALLOWED read code/SPEC/IMPLEMENTATION/write BUG_REPORT.md; FORBIDDEN edit code, fix bugs
adversarial_bug_find.md: ALLOWED read code/SPEC/BUG_REPORT/write ADVERSARIAL_BUG_REPORT.md; FORBIDDEN edit code, fix bugs
doc_review.md: ALLOWED read DESIGN/code/docs/write DOC_REVIEW.md/update docs; FORBIDDEN edit non-doc code, modify SPEC/DESIGN
referee.md: ALLOWED read all artifacts/write VERDICT.md; FORBIDDEN edit code, modify any artifact other than VERDICT.md
orchestrate.md: ALLOWED read .state/transition state/create tasks/delegate; FORBIDDEN edit code directly, skip phases

2. User override resistance

Each prompt includes a "Handling User Overrides" section telling agents to refuse forbidden actions and suggest the correct phase.

3. `.state` precondition check

Every phase prompt includes .state as the first file to read, with instructions to STOP if the phase doesn't match.

4. Pre-Work Validation (MANDATORY)

Every phase prompt requires running python ~/.automaton/scripts/status.py --validate-folder --task {task-name} before starting work.

5. Approval gates

research.md, decompose.md, design.md, test_design.md: include Approval Gate section with --transition {phase}:awaiting_approval, --approve, and --transition {next-phase}
implement.md, bug_finder.md, adversarial_bug_find.md, doc_review.md, referee.md: include "No Approval Gate" section with direct --transition

6. Orchestrate.md restructuring

Reduced from 493 to 143 lines
State determination logic referenced from workflow.md
Sub-task management extracted to subtask_management.md
Gate-check loop with --validate-folder and approval pauses

Files Modified

prompts/research.md (updated)
prompts/design.md (updated)
prompts/decompose.md (updated)
prompts/test_design.md (updated)
prompts/implement.md (updated)
prompts/bug_finder.md (updated)
prompts/adversarial_bug_find.md (updated)
prompts/doc_review.md (updated)
prompts/referee.md (updated)
prompts/orchestrate.md (rewritten, 143 lines)
prompts/subtask_management.md (new, extracted)

Test Results

All prompt self-consistency tests passing
onboarding.md excluded from stop-condition test

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