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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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Bug Report: add-outputs-retention

O1 — GC tick-count semantic: cutoff uses max_seen from filenames, not state.iteration_count

The formula cutoff = max_seen - retention + 1 uses the max tick index found in filenames, NOT state.iteration_count. If the .state.loop advances to iteration_count=N but the output files for tick N haven't been written yet (crash after step 10 write but before GC), the next tick will see max_seen = N-1 and compute a cutoff that deletes one fewer group than expected. On the next tick, N is written and GC catches up.

Not a bug — SPEC D-O5 explicitly chose filename-based max_seen over iteration_count for robustness. Self-healing on the next tick.

O2 — GC doesn't iterate recursively

If a future version nests files inside outputs/ subdirectories (e.g., outputs/tick5/), os.listdir at the top level won't see them. The regex won't match, so they're preserved. Only top-level tick{N}-* files are affected.

Not a bug — SPEC D-O6: regex ^tick(\d+)- matches only top-level files. Nested subdirs preserved. Not a current concern.

Verdict

PASS — no blockers.