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- **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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# Spec: fix-stale-task-mtime-proxy
## Problem
`scripts/status.py:965,1072` uses the `.state` file's mtime as a proxy for "last edit activity." But every `--transition` rewrites `.state`, resetting its mtime. A task that was transitioned 29 minutes ago appears "fresh" even though no editing happened. The `--same-session` check also gives false positives after any transition.
## Fix
Use a separate `.state.lastedit` timestamp file that is updated only when `--can-edit` returns ALLOWED (actual edit activity). Check `.state.lastedit` mtime instead of `.state` mtime for stale-task detection. If `.state.lastedit` doesn't exist, fall back to `.state` mtime (backward compat).
## Acceptance Criteria
- Transitioning a task does NOT reset the stale-task timer
- Running `--can-edit` (and getting ALLOWED) DOES reset the timer
- If `.state.lastedit` doesn't exist, falls back to `.state` mtime
- Existing tests still pass
- Add test verifying transition doesn't reset timer but can-edit does