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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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Framework Configuration

This file contains global framework settings that apply across all projects.

VRAM Configuration

Settings for task decomposition based on available VRAM.

  • Auto-detect: Yes # Detect GPU VRAM, RAM, and model context window automatically
  • Target context: 16k tokens # Override auto-detect if needed
  • Headroom: 25% # Leave headroom for code, context, and reasoning
  • Max peak context per sub-task: 12k tokens # Max context for any single sub-task

Auto-detection

When Auto-detect: Yes, the framework probes your system to detect:

  • GPU VRAM (via nvidia-smi or lspci)
  • System RAM (via /proc/meminfo or sysctl)
  • Model context window (via API config or model name lookup)
  • Framework overhead (by reading all loaded prompt files)

To disable auto-detection and use manual values:

## VRAM Configuration
- **Auto-detect**: No
- **Target context**: 8k
- **Headroom**: 30%
- **Max peak context per sub-task**: 5.6k

Model Configuration

Settings for the LLM model being used.

  • Model: omlx/Ornith-1.0-35B-4bit-mlx # Local LLM (opencode provider); used as the Implement role
  • Override context window: 32768 # Matches opencode.json limit.context for ornith

Auto-detection

When Model: auto, the framework detects the model name from:

  1. .agent.md in the project (if specified there)
  2. API config files (.env, config.yaml, config.json, etc.)
  3. Model name lookup by name (e.g., gpt-4o → 128k, claude-3-5-sonnet → 200k)

To disable auto-detection and use manual values:

## Model Configuration
- **Model**: gpt-4o
- **Override context window**: 128k

System Requirements

Requirements for the environment the framework runs in.

  • nvidia-smi: Required if NVIDIA GPU (for VRAM detection)
  • lspci: Fallback if NVIDIA GPU not available (for AMD GPU VRAM detection)
  • /proc/meminfo: Required for RAM detection (Linux)
  • sysctl: Fallback for RAM detection (macOS)

Loop Role Models

Loop ticks run three session roles. Roles are sessions, not models — a single model can fill multiple roles. Configure each loop's role-to-prompt binding in its loop.json; this section documents the framework's expectations only.

  • Implement: — produces the artifact for this tick. Bound to prompts/loop-implement.md by default.
  • Verify: — grades the artifact and emits the JSON verdict {pass, score, reasons, next_hint}. Bound to prompts/loop-verifier.md. The framework never inspects this role's model (D8); only its session.
  • Orchestrate: — applies the verdict, calls exactly one status.py operation per tick, enforces brakes. Bound to prompts/loop-orchestrate.md.

Conflict-of-interest rule (D12): Verify: and Implement: must never be the same session. When two distinct sessions are infeasible (single-session harness), the runner falls back to session-only divergence — still safe.

Role context tiers are set per-loop in loop.json, not globally. The 16k floor (D13) applies regardless of tier.

Framework Version

  • Version: 2.0
  • State enforcement: enabled (.state file + status.py)