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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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# Adversarial Bug Report: Dashboard Task Review and Approval
## Deep Review
The review API writes REVIEW.md to the task folder. Submissions are POST with status + comment.
## Potential Issues
1. **No authentication**: Any HTTP client can submit reviews. The dashboard is localhost-only by default, but `--host 0.0.0.0` exposes the review API without auth.
2. **No CSRF protection**: POST endpoint accepts JSON from any origin. Mitigated by same-origin policy and no cookies/auth.
3. **Path traversal in task name**: Task name is URL-decoded but no `../` check. An attacker could write REVIEW.md outside the tasks directory. Fixed below.
4. **Comment injection**: Comment content is written directly to REVIEW.md without escaping. If REVIEW.md is ever consumed by a markdown renderer, injected markdown could be an issue.
## Security Fix: Path traversal
The `_handle_review` endpoint writes to `project_root / ".automaton" / "tasks" / task_name / self.REVIEW_FILE`. If task_name contains `../`, the review file could be written outside the tasks directory. Add a path traversal check.
## Security Fix Applied
Added path traversal validation to task name in _handle_review and _get_review_status.
## Verdict: PASS (with security fix applied)