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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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# RESEARCH: move-completed-tasks-to-complete-folder
## Objective
When `--transition complete` is called, move the task directory from `tasks/<name>/` to `tasks/complete/<name>/`. Keep `--list` and `--audit` showing only active tasks. Allow `--task <name>` to find completed tasks by fallback.
## Current Behavior
`--transition complete` only writes the `.state` file to `"complete"`. The task directory stays in `tasks/<name>/` alongside active tasks, cluttering the listing and audit.
## Design
### _task_dir fallback
Add a fallback in `_task_dir`: if `tasks/<name>/` doesn't exist, check `tasks/complete/<name>/`. This ensures `--task <name>` and `--transition` still work for completed tasks.
### cmd_transition move
After `_write_state(task_path, target)`, if `target == "complete"`, compute the tasks root and move `task_path` to `tasks/complete/<name>/`. Create `tasks/complete/` if it doesn't exist. Refuse if a completed task with the same name already exists.
### _all_task_dirs unchanged
Do NOT scan `tasks/complete/` in `_all_task_dirs`. Completed tasks are out of sight from `--list` and `--audit`. The fallback in `_task_dir` is sufficient for targeted lookups.
### cmd_create_task
`_task_dir` already returns the completed path via fallback, so `cmd_create_task` will see `task_path.exists()` and refuse with "already exists". No separate check needed.
## Risks
- **Audit:** `--audit` uses `_all_task_dirs` which doesn't scan `tasks/complete/`, so completed tasks are invisible to audit. This is the desired behavior.
- **Loop references:** If a loop's `current_task` points to a completed task, the audit at line 954 checks `_task_dir(ltask, args.project).exists()` which will find the completed task via fallback. Correct.
- **`--transition` on completed tasks:** `_task_dir` finds the completed task, `_require_state` reads `"complete"`, and `LEGAL_TRANSITIONS.get("complete", [])` returns `[]`, so any transition is refused. Correct.