State Enforcement (v2.0):
- .state file as single source of truth for task phase
- Approval gates for research, decomposition, design, test_design
- status.py --transition refuses illegal phase transitions
- status.py --validate-folder detects out-of-order artifacts
- status.py --audit checks all tasks for violations
- status.py --create-task is the only valid way to create tasks
- Pre-v2.0 tasks without .state are UNTRACKED -- all commands refuse them
- New --upgrade command bootstraps .state files for existing tasks
Project Scoping:
- --project flag added to all status.py commands across 16+ files
- _find_project_dir errors instead of silently falling back to ~/.automaton/
- --scope-check marks framework files OUT_OF_SCOPE when working on a project
- Dashboard handlers use stored project_root instead of re-detecting from CWD
- Prompts reference ~/.automaton/scripts/vram_detect.py (not {project}/.automaton/)
Harness Integration:
- status.py --can-edit now supports project-level checks (no --task required)
- --can-edit --file checks file scope without --task
- --json output for machine-readable harness integration
- opencode plugin (plugins/automaton-guard/plugin.ts) intercepts edit/write
- Git pre-commit hook (scripts/git-hooks/pre-commit) blocks commits without task
- Formal integration contract (contracts/harness-integration.md)
Other:
- upgrade.sh delegates to status.py --upgrade instead of manual heuristics
- Phase prompts reference --project {project} for multi-project scoping
- 200 tests passing (14 new)
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Adversarial Bug Report: Inflight Upgrade Path
Deep Review
The upgrade path is designed for backward compatibility. Existing tasks without .state get bootstrapped via the artifact heuristic. The version marker in config.md enables future version detection.
Potential Issues
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Bootstrap phase inference may be wrong: The artifact heuristic determines phase based on which artifacts exist, but this can be ambiguous. For example, if a task has both SPEC.md and IMPLEMENTATION.md (because it was in early implement phase), the heuristic must infer "implement" correctly. The heuristic uses a priority order (latest phase with all required artifacts), which is reasonable but could misidentify tasks that were abandoned mid-phase.
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upgrade.sh has no rollback: If the upgrade script bootstraps a
.statewith an incorrect inferred phase, there's no automatic rollback. The user must manually correct the.statefile. The script reports inferred phases for review, but doesn't provide a--dry-runflag. -
Version marker parsing:
config.mdis a markdown file, so parsing the version marker requires string matching rather than structured format. If someone reformats config.md, the version detection could fail.