mind: date the backlog — a Filed: header on all 150 draft prompts (#274)

The date convention covered the registries and `active/`, and missed the
largest pool of tasks the Mind holds: `draft/` is 150 prompts against a handful
of live rows, so the dashboard's Recent feed could reach only 10 of the 50 it
holds. Most of what had been happening was invisible.

Drafts now carry `Filed: YYYY-MM-DD` — the day the prompt was written — beside
the `Issued:` an active prompt carries. A prompt keeps its `Filed:` when it
advances and gains an `Issued:`; the later, more specific event dates the task.

`lifecycle.py dates` covers both state folders, and the two want OPPOSITE
readings of the same history — the switch is `--follow`. An `active/` prompt
dates from the day it ARRIVED there (being issued is a `git mv`, so following
the rename back would report the wrong day); a `draft/` prompt dates from the
day it was WRITTEN, wherever it lived then. The 2026-07-13 lifecycle migration
`git mv`-ed 42 prompts in one commit: without `--follow` all 42 date from the
migration rather than from themselves. With it, the 150 spread across 53
distinct dates.

All 150 backfilled from git history, none guessed — the Intake trailer and the
claiming registry entry stand behind git as fallbacks, and every backfilled
date still names its source in the file.


Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01L4HPWjv5rdzBAkKpfW1SbR

Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>

Author: Jammy2211

REFERENCE.md

@@ -300,6 +300,7 @@ Free-form markdown. Strong conventions:
   Autonomy: supervised      # safe | supervised | human-required
   Priority: normal          # low | normal | high
   Status: draft
+  Filed: 2026-07-09         # optional; the day the prompt was written
   Issued: 2026-08-19        # optional; set when the prompt advances to active/
   Blocked-by: PyAutoFit#1436          # optional; see "Declaring a gate" below
   ```
@@ -389,9 +390,16 @@ it leaves the backlog:
 | `active.md` | `- issued: YYYY-MM-DD` | the day the task got its GitHub issue |
 | `planned.md` | `- filed: YYYY-MM-DD` | the day it was scoped |
 | `parked.md` | `- parked: YYYY-MM-DD` | the day it stopped |
-| `active/<name>.md` | `Issued: YYYY-MM-DD` | the prompt's own copy, in its light header |
+| `draft/**/<name>.md` | `Filed: YYYY-MM-DD` | the day the prompt was written |
+| `active/<name>.md` | `Issued: YYYY-MM-DD` | the day it got its issue, in its light header |
 | `complete/<YYYY>/<MM>/<slug>.md` | `- completed: YYYY-MM-DD` | unchanged — the ledger already did this |
 
+The backlog is the **largest** pool of tasks the Mind holds — 150 prompts
+against a handful of live rows — so `draft/` carrying a date is what lets the
+dashboard's Recent feed see most of the work at all. A prompt keeps its
+`Filed:` when it advances to `active/` and gains an `Issued:`; the later, more
+specific event is the one that dates the task.
+
 The **key names the event**, so a merged feed can say what each date means
 rather than showing a bare timestamp. Reading is tolerant: `registered:`,
 `started:`, `planned:`, `found:` and `shipped:` are all read as dates too (the
@@ -413,17 +421,28 @@ already holds, annotating each inferred date with where it came from:
 Issued: 2026-08-18 (backfilled from parked.md `parked:`)
 ```
 
-The sources, in order: the commit that introduced the entry or moved the prompt
-into `active/`; the dated registry entry that claims the prompt; a date the
-entry already stated in its own prose. Nothing is guessed — an entry with no
+The sources, in order: git — the commit that introduced the entry, wrote the
+draft, or moved the prompt into `active/`; the prompt's own Intake trailer
+(`<!-- formalised by the Intake (Conception) Agent on … -->`); the dated
+registry entry that claims the prompt; a date the entry already stated in its
+own prose.
+
+The two states want **opposite** readings of the same history, and the switch is
+`--follow`. An `active/` prompt dates from the day it *arrived* there (being
+issued is a `git mv`, so following the rename back would report the wrong day);
+a `draft/` prompt dates from the day it was *written*, wherever it lived then —
+the 2026-07-13 lifecycle migration `git mv`-ed 42 prompts in one commit, and
+without `--follow` all 42 would date from the migration rather than from
+themselves. Nothing is guessed — an entry with no
 evidence is reported for a human to date by hand. A **shallow** clone (CI, a
 cloud session) cannot see past its boundary commit, so git dates at or before
 it are discarded rather than stamping every task with the day the clone was
 made.
 
-The dashboard's [Recent](dashboard.md#recent) table is the payoff: the 20
-newest events on the work in hand — issued, parked, filed — in one place.
-Shipped work stays out of it; `complete/index.md` is where the ledger is read.
+The dashboard's [Recent](dashboard.md#recent) table is the payoff: it holds the
+50 newest events on the work in hand — issued, parked, filed — and shows 10,
+opening the next 10 on each tap of `…`. Shipped work stays out of it;
+`complete/index.md` is where the ledger is read.
 
 ### Completion record (`complete/<YYYY>/<MM>/<slug>.md`) schema
 

dashboard.html

@@ -1316,20 +1316,88 @@ Scoped but not started; some are not yet prompt files. Full detail in [`planned.
 
 ## Recent
 
-The 10 newest things to happen to the work in hand, newest first — issued, parked, filed. Every other section on this page is laid out by state, which is exactly why none of them can answer “what has been happening?”. Shipped work is not here: it is read from `complete/index.md`, and a thousand records deep it would crowd out everything anyone can still act on.
+The 50 newest things to happen to the work in hand, newest first — issued, parked, filed. Every other section on this page is laid out by state, which is exactly why none of them can answer “what has been happening?”. Shipped work is not here: it is read from `complete/index.md`, and a thousand records deep it would crowd out everything anyone can still act on. Showing the newest 10; … opens the next 10.
 
 | Date | Event | Task |
 |------|-------|------|
+| 2026-08-22 | filed | <a href="draft/maintenance/ci/smoke_install_stale_jax_pin.md">smoke_install.sh's stale <code>jax&lt;0.7</code> pin — CI is on the right</a> |
+| 2026-08-22 | filed | <a href="draft/bug/autolens_workspace_test/multi_dataset_jax_likelihood_xla_stall.md">multi_dataset/jax_likelihood scripts hang to the timeout cap (XLA…</a> |
+| 2026-08-22 | filed | <a href="draft/maintenance/libraries/untrack_generated_fits_test_artifacts.md">Untrack the generated FITS test artifacts in autoarray</a> |
+| 2026-08-22 | filed | <a href="draft/bug/autoarray/reconstruction_noise_map_solver_mismatch.md">The reconstruction noise map describes a different estimator than the</a> |
+| 2026-08-22 | filed | <a href="draft/maintenance/libraries/remove_pynufft_legacy_transformer.md">Remove pynufft + legacy TransformerNUFFTPyNUFFT</a> |
+| 2026-08-22 | filed | <a href="draft/bug/pyautolens/point_source_json_datasets_record_no_regime.md">Point-source JSON datasets record no resolution regime</a> |
+| 2026-08-22 | filed | <a href="draft/research/libraries/intel_macos_support_policy.md">Is Intel macOS a supported platform, and what is the</a> |
+| 2026-08-22 | filed | <a href="draft/maintenance/libraries/defer_scipy_sparse_import.md">Defer the eager scipy.sparse import in derivative_util (~0.10 s of</a> |
+| 2026-08-22 | filed | <a href="draft/bug/workspaces/bug_fix_the_tracer_fits_existence_guard.md">Bug: fix the tracer.fits existence guard in autolens_workspace…</a> |
+| 2026-08-21 | filed | <a href="draft/feature/autoarray/rectangular_bilinear_rtu_mesh_split.md">Rectangular mesh split: Bilinear (fast CPU default) vs RTU…</a> |
+
+<details><summary>… 10 more (40 left)</summary>
+
+| Date | Event | Task |
+|------|-------|------|
+| 2026-08-21 | filed | <a href="draft/bug/autoarray/numba_kernel_shift_axes_swapped.md">Numba PSF gathers derive the y/x kernel shifts from the</a> |
+| 2026-08-20 | filed | <a href="draft/feature/autoarray/numba_cpu_likelihood_kernel_cdf_fast_path.md">Numba CPU likelihood phase 2: kernel-CDF numba fast path (the</a> |
+| 2026-08-20 | filed | <a href="draft/feature/autoarray/numba_cpu_likelihood_mge_convolution_and_caching.md">Numba CPU likelihood phase 1: batched MGE convolution +…</a> |
+| 2026-08-19 | filed | <a href="draft/bug/pyautomind/status_sh_repos_missing_source.md">status.sh --repos sources a file that no longer exists</a> |
+| 2026-08-19 | filed | <a href="draft/bug/autofit/jax_011_message_log_partition_tuple_shape.md">jax 0.11 breaks beta/gamma message log_partition under jit ('tuple'…</a> |
+| 2026-08-19 | filed | <a href="draft/bug/autolens/jax_likelihood_smoke_pins_stale.md">autolens_workspace_test jax_likelihood pins: 4 scripts fail smoke on…</a> |
+| 2026-08-19 | filed | <a href="draft/research/autofit/autofit_profiling_bootstrap.md">autofit_profiling: bootstrap the repo + general PyAutoFit profiling…</a> |
+| 2026-08-19 | filed | <a href="draft/bug/pyautoreduce/published_autoreduce_09_missing_312_floor.md"><code>autoreduce 0.9</code> on PyPI never got the Python 3.12 floor</a> |
 | 2026-08-19 | issued | <a href="active/16_transformed_message_factor_gradient_unpack.md"><code>@PyAutoFit</code> <code>TransformedMessage.factor_gradient</code> crashes on first…</a> |
+| 2026-08-19 | filed | <a href="draft/feature/pyautohands/release_board_run_logs_enrichment.md">Release board: local run_logs enrichment</a> |
+
+<details><summary>… 10 more (30 left)</summary>
+
+| Date | Event | Task |
+|------|-------|------|
+| 2026-08-19 | filed | <a href="draft/maintenance/pyautobrain/refactor_witness_map_missing_autonerves.md">Refactor Agent witness map lacks PyAutoNerves test suite</a> |
+| 2026-08-19 | filed | <a href="draft/docs/pyautobrain/rtd_organism_currency.md">RTD organism docs currency: Nerves page, organ-count drift, hands.md…</a> |
+| 2026-08-19 | filed | <a href="draft/bug/pyautobrain/pyautoconf_rename_functional_leftovers.md">PyAutoConf rename leftovers in Brain functional surfaces</a> |
+| 2026-08-19 | filed | <a href="draft/research/pyautobrain/explore_dashboardify_the_brain_s_operational_sur.md">Explore: dashboardify the Brain's operational surfaces with pasteable…</a> |
+| 2026-08-19 | filed | <a href="draft/refactor/pyautomind/repos_sync_check_dedup.md">Deduplicate repos_sync.py's check/write pairs</a> |
+| 2026-08-19 | filed | <a href="draft/triage/bug_in_autocti_workspace_the_dataset_1d.md">Bug in autocti_workspace: the dataset_1d results/database example…</a> |
 | 2026-08-18 | parked | <a href="parked.md#single-source-density-design">single-source-density-design</a> |
 | 2026-08-18 | parked | <a href="parked.md#prior-message-collapse-design">prior-message-collapse-design</a> |
+| 2026-08-18 | filed | <a href="draft/bug/priors/15_transformed_message_logpdf_jacobian.md"><code>@PyAutoFit</code> <code>TransformedMessage.logpdf</code>/<code>pdf</code> omit the transform…</a> |
+| 2026-08-17 | filed | <a href="draft/feature/autofit/prior_exit_sampler_coverage.md">Which other searches need prior-support handling — coverage audit…</a> |
+
+<details><summary>… 10 more (20 left)</summary>
+
+| Date | Event | Task |
+|------|-------|------|
+| 2026-08-17 | filed | <a href="draft/feature/pyautomind/repos-sync-config-stamper.md">Teach repos_sync --write to stamp organ config surfaces</a> |
+| 2026-08-16 | filed | <a href="draft/bug/autofit/loggaussian_prior_declares_own_support.md"><code>LogGaussianPrior</code> misreports its own support as <code>(-inf, inf)</code></a> |
+| 2026-08-14 | filed | <a href="draft/bug/workspaces/jax_likelihood_pins_stale_by_1e4.md">Three <code>jax_likelihood</code> pins are stale by ~1.24e-4 and fail the</a> |
 | 2026-08-09 | found | <a href="planned.md#isothermal-ell-sph-oversampling-at-the-cusp">isothermal-ell-sph-oversampling-at-the-cusp</a> |
+| 2026-08-09 | filed | <a href="draft/bug/autoarray/pixel_scales_int_not_widened_to_tuple.md"><code>pixel_scales</code> given as an <code>int</code> (or <code>np.float64</code>) is never widened</a> |
 | 2026-08-08 | parked | <a href="parked.md#pyautoreduce-slacs1430-acs-comparison">pyautoreduce-slacs1430-acs-comparison</a> |
-| 2026-07-22 | planned | <a href="planned.md#latent-nan-guard-honest-run">latent-nan-guard-honest-run</a> |
-| 2026-07-21 | filed | <a href="planned.md#remote-mcp-deployment-tiers">remote-mcp-deployment-tiers</a> |
-| 2026-07-08 | filed | <a href="planned.md#samples-parameter-paths">samples-parameter-paths</a> |
-| 2026-06-05 | filed | <a href="planned.md#piemass-potential">piemass-potential</a> |
-| 2026-05-21 | filed | <a href="planned.md#jax-point-source-point-smoke-sentinel">jax-point-source-point-smoke-sentinel</a> |
+| 2026-08-08 | filed | <a href="draft/docs/autolens_workspace/markdown_regeneration_sigma_min.md">Regenerate autolens_workspace markdown/ so the MGE pages show…</a> |
+| 2026-08-07 | filed | <a href="draft/bug/autofit/plot_functions_discard_kwargs.md"><code>autofit.plot</code> functions accept <code>**kwargs</code> and silently discard them</a> |
+| 2026-08-07 | filed | <a href="draft/maintenance/workspaces/notebook_setup_notebook_drift_siblings.md">Regenerate setup_notebook-drifted notebooks in…</a> |
+| 2026-08-06 | filed | <a href="draft/triage/convolver_blurring_image_warning.md">Triage: Convolver "No blurring_image provided" warning in canonical…</a> |
+
+<details><summary>… 10 more (10 left)</summary>
+
+| Date | Event | Task |
+|------|-------|------|
+| 2026-08-06 | filed | <a href="draft/docs/autocti/api_rst_rewrite.md">Rewrite PyAutoCTI docs/api — 55 of 89 autosummary entries are</a> |
+| 2026-08-06 | filed | <a href="draft/maintenance/libraries/dep_cap_refresh_2026_08.md">Dependency-cap refresh 2026-08: safe bumps, astropy 8 decision, two…</a> |
+| 2026-08-05 | filed | <a href="draft/feature/autofit/search_seed_reproducibility.md">Give PyAutoFit searches a <code>seed</code> — today no search can</a> |
+| 2026-08-04 | filed | <a href="draft/maintenance/autolens_profiling/jwst_lw_untracked_gitignore_gap.md">dataset/imaging/jwst_lw is untracked because the gitignore was never…</a> |
+| 2026-08-04 | filed | <a href="draft/maintenance/autolens_workspace/cosmos_web_ring_mask_dtype.md">cosmos_web_ring stores boolean masks as float64, wasting ~3.4 MB of</a> |
+| 2026-08-04 | filed | <a href="draft/maintenance/autolens_workspace_developer/stale_api_rot_audit.md">autolens_workspace_developer: broad stale-API rot (56 symbols, no CI)</a> |
+| 2026-08-04 | filed | <a href="draft/bug/workspaces/aplt_output_drift_remaining_repos.md"><code>aplt.Output</code> stale-API drift in the remaining workspace repos</a> |
+| 2026-08-04 | filed | <a href="draft/triage/nightly_release_blocked_eight_nights.md">Nightly release has been blocked 8 nights running — triage</a> |
+| 2026-08-04 | filed | <a href="draft/docs/howtolens/ch4_mask_overlay_never_drawn.md">HowToLens ch4 tutorial 3: mask overlay is never actually drawn</a> |
+| 2026-08-04 | filed | <a href="draft/bug/pyautoheart/script_timing_baselines_orphaned_and_window_filled.md">Heart script_timing baselines are orphaned by path moves and filled</a> |
+
+</details>
+
+</details>
+
+</details>
+
+</details>
 
 _Dates come from each task's registry entry — `lifecycle.py dates` reports anything undated._
 

dashboard.md

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ Difficulty: medium
 Autonomy: supervised
 Priority: normal
 Status: draft
+Filed: 2026-07-17 (backfilled from git)
 
 **This is a review/probe request, not an implementation task — the answer could
 be "intentional, document it" or "bug, fix it", and the two have very different

draft/bug/autoarray/PROBE_adapt_double_square_coefficient.md

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ Difficulty: low
 Autonomy: supervised
 Priority: medium
 Status: formalised
+Filed: 2026-08-21 (backfilled from git)
 
 Found 2026-08-21 while fixing
 `draft/bug/autoarray/numba_first_call_garbage_psf_weighted_data.md` (the

draft/bug/autoarray/numba_kernel_shift_axes_swapped.md

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ Difficulty: small
 Autonomy: supervised
 Priority: medium
 Status: draft
+Filed: 2026-08-09 (backfilled from git)
 
 ## Why this exists
 

draft/bug/autoarray/pixel_scales_int_not_widened_to_tuple.md

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ Difficulty: small
 Autonomy: supervised
 Priority: normal
 Status: superseded
+Filed: 2026-07-29 (backfilled from git)
 
 ## Original request
 

draft/bug/autoarray/pynufft_scipy_pinv2_dev_extra.md

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ Difficulty: medium
 Autonomy: human-required
 Priority: low
 Status: draft
+Filed: 2026-08-22 (backfilled from git)
 
 ## Why this exists
 

draft/bug/autoarray/reconstruction_noise_map_solver_mismatch.md

@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ Phase: 2
         EP", so do not pick this up as ordinary work. The evidence below is the
         expensive part and it is already paid for.
 Issue: (none — never issued. Parent report https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoFit/issues/1405 stays open.)
+Filed: 2026-08-11 (backfilled from git)
 
 ## Why this is `too-large` / `human-required` — read before starting
 

draft/bug/autofit/ep_scale_collapse_basin_cure_or_caveat.md

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ Difficulty: small
 Autonomy: supervised
 Priority: medium
 Status: draft
+Filed: 2026-08-19 (backfilled from git)
 
 Found during the JAX-default-dependency arc (PyAutoLens#702): widening the jax
 cap in autonerves from `<0.11.0` to `<0.12.0` let CI resolve jax/jaxlib 0.11.1,