Files
automaton/tasks/phase-scoped-prompts/BUG_REPORT.md
T
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

1.2 KiB

Bug Report: Phase-Scoped Prompts

Methodology

Reviewed all 9 phase prompts for ALLOWED/FORBIDDEN sections, approval gates, user override resistance, pre-work validation, and prompt length discipline.

Acceptance Criteria

# Criterion Result
1 Every phase prompt has ALLOWED ACTIONS section ✅
2 Every phase prompt has FORBIDDEN ACTIONS section ✅
3 Every phase prompt includes user override resistance ✅
4 Every phase prompt includes .state precondition check ✅
5 Every phase prompt includes --validate-folder check ✅
6 Research/decomposition/design/test_design have approval gates ✅
7 implement/bug_finder/etc. do NOT have approval gates ✅
8 orchestrat.md FORBIDDEN includes "must use status.py --create-task" ✅
9 orchestrate.md reduced to under 200 lines ✅ (143 lines)
10 No prompt exceeds 150 lines (except orchestrate.md) ⚠️ See finding 1

Findings

  1. Minor: decompose.md exceeds the 150-line target (contains both the decomposition guidance and the approval gate template). The content is necessary and not easily trimmed without losing guidance. This is a soft target, not a hard limit.

Verdict: PASS